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    Scheherazade Daneshkhu has been a staff journalist at the FT since 1990. Her previous roles include leisure Industries correspondent, economics correspondent and Paris correspondent, where she covered the French banking and consumer sectors. She headed the consumer industries team before taking up her current newsroom position as director of editorial talent.
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      Retailers say they have had no government contact over no-deal supplies

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    • Sunday, 22 July, 2018
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    • Friday, 20 July, 2018
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      The fate of the Swiss group will be a defining test for an industry under pressure from changing consumer tastes and activist investors

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