invaded Ukraine in February 2022, companies across the G-7 major economies and the European Union announced plans to cease business operations in Russia. "Henkel has been explicit about the likely impact to earnings of a Russia exit (5% sales, 10% EPS) and this should be well known to investors, but we suspect that Russia deconsolidation may be a source of margin mix headwind elsewhere in Staples. It is a paper value that can be revised at any moment at the whim of the owner," said Mark Dixon, a London-based mergers and acquisitions consultant who founded the Moral Ratings Agency think tank in February following the Russian invasion