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...Thoma Bravo is buying the business to help it expand into the US, where it owns dozens of enterprise software businesses, a person familiar with the matter said....
...I’m Italian-American — or, as Stanley Tucci likes to put it, “I am Italian on both sides.” — and I grew up with a bunch of weird food traditions that I never bothered to question until I was much older....
...The eye-opening numbers are the result of Bravo’s bullishness on the software sector, even as valuations skyrocket industry-wide. “We’re doing nothing different now than we used to....
...Thoma Bravo declined to comment on its fundraising plans. “We’re doing nothing different now than we used to....
...“They’re in the business of ideally doing multiple deals with your portfolio companies. They know that if they act poorly, my job is to not show them future business.”...
...His successes include a landmark overhaul of pensions in 2019, helping secure the independence of the central bank, as well as a host of microeconomic reforms aimed at increasing the ease of doing business...
...Marco Gobbetti’s desire to spend more time in Italy cost Burberry as much as £930m in market value, while doing nothing whatsoever for that of his next employer, Salvatore Ferragamo....
...Named after an Italian motorway, A24 now has more than 100 employees in offices in New York and Los Angeles....
...Norton was previously known as Symantec before Broadcom acquired its enterprise business in late 2019....
...Until just over a decade ago, neatly pressed chef’s whites and toque hats were a mainstay in all restaurants (they are still worn in many fine-dining institutions — and notably by Lucas Bravo’s dashing chef...
...” to get the business off the ground in the first place....
...Orlando Bravo, who bid $3.9bn for the Oxfordshire-based cyber security group Sophos just a couple of weeks before the Halloween Brexit deadline, believes his private equity group Thoma Bravo’s secret sauce...
...“I remember my heart beating as I pushed the button,” says Eklund, who is also a star of Bravo’s reality-TV show Million Dollar Listing. “I thought, this will make or break me....
...Meanwhile, here’s UBS downgrading Restaurant Group, whose customers are making a different kind of gamble: We see the outlook in 2020 as incrementally challenging for Restaurant Group given; (1) Expectation...
...Thoma Bravo does not impose as much control but Mr Bravo says there are always straightforward margin gains to be made because tech companies are reliably inefficient....
...(FT) McDonald’s sues Florence The fast-food giant is suing the Italian city for €18m after it was blocked from opening a restaurant in the historic Piazza del Duomo....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a chef, as I love to cook, especially for others. It’s the only thing, other than jewellery, that I really know how to do....
...She now works as a freelance journalist specialising in business and development issues in Africa....
...The men with their newspapers are not on their mobiles: they don’t feel the need to be “capturing” what’s going on around them and nor do they feel like “sharing” what they’re doing. Bravo!...
...As well as owning stakes in a security company and a recruitment company (of which he is a director), he is now backing a business called Ghost Speaker, which encrypts digital content for mobile phones and...
...She has a presenting job as a style guru for the Rachael Ray Show and Bravo’s Tim Gunn Guide to Style, and she has a line of shoes sold on QVC, the shopping network....
...James Pickford is the FT’s Business Life editor...
...Should the alliance succeed, it would be a new success for Mr Marchionne, an outsider in the tight-knit and often uptight northern Italian business establishment....
...Though Italian-born, the 55-year-old grew up in Canada from the age of 14 and favours witty and colourful turns of phrase, including numerous expletives....
...Under Mr Agassi’s business plan car batteries would become the property of companies such as his own, which in time would bring down the retail price of the vehicles significantly....
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