Ian King
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CNBC UK Exchange: Reflections on Britainâs tough economic reality (opens the original)
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This is the final edition of CNBC UK Exchange. I want to say a sincere thank you to everyone who has read, subscribed, shared the newsletter or got in touch since it launched. While this may be the last newsletter, the stories, personalities and businesses that have filled these emails certainly aren't going anywhere, and I hope you'll continue to follow them through CNBC's coverage. When we launched CNBC UK Exchange just over 15 months ago, the U.K. economy had just enjoyed its best quarter of
Avivaâs remarkable revival leaves one big question: What next? (opens the original)
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This report is from this week's CNBC UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Few turnarounds in corporate Britain this century match the one achieved in the last six years at Aviva. The U.K.'s second-largest insurer by stock market value â Prudential is at No. 1 â had been a serial disappointment since its creation in May 2000. That partly reflects Aviva's history. It was formed by the merger of Norwich Union, a 203-year-old life company that until 1997 was owned
CNBC UK Exchange: Diageoâs turnaround test (opens the original)
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This report is from this week's CNBC UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. On Jan. 4, 2022, shares of Diageo hit an all-time high, making it the FTSE 100's third most valuable company, with a stock market value of nearly £90 billion (roughly $121 billion). The world's biggest spirits company, whose brands include Johnnie Walker scotch whisky, Smirnoff vodka, Tanqueray gin, Captain Morgan rum, Don Julio tequila and Guinness stout, has since seen its share price more
Britain tried war bonds before â and savers paid the price (opens the original)
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This report is from this week's CNBC UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. In 1914, the United Kingdom was one of the world's wealthiest countries, but by the end of the year it still needed to finance the war it had been fighting with Germany and its allies since August. The solution was to borrow from investors via a so-called "war loan," offering a coupon of 3.5%, repayable between 1925 and 1928. Evidence unearthed by Norma Cohen, a former Financial Times journal
Great British sell-off? UK takeovers accelerate in a big way (opens the original)
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This report is from this week's CNBC's UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Jeremy Fry was typical of the characters one would encounter in British business 30-40 years ago. A scion of the Frys, the Bristol Quaker family that in 1761 founded the company behind the world's first mass-produced chocolate bar, he was educated at Gordonstoun â the tough Scottish boarding school King Charles attended â before joining the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. A
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