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...The Carlton What it is: once the more convivial Death Star of the Conservative party; a place with the teensiest air of a provincial hotel both in clientele and decor....
...He also ran Kingfisher, which owns DIY chain B&Q, as well as Greencore and Carlton Communications, and chaired Blackstone’s main European entity....
...(His mother, Judy Ridenhour, ran a community theatre company whose attendees included a young Eddie Murphy.)...
...A serial chief executive in his younger years, the 62-year-old Mr Murphy ran Carlton Television before moving to lead DIY retailer Kingfisher....
...— Ritz Carlton Riyadh Blues. — We all need a serious discussion about InfoSec. — What will we do with the ultimate problem-solving machine? — Deutsche Bank and Kaupthing is very much still a thing....
...Camp Alphaville reminder courtesy of Paul Murphy: “Think of a festival, but for finance rather than music. Oh, and without the drugs.”...
...Gerry Murphy, the former chief executive of Carlton Communications and Kingfisher, is a board director....
...At least eight people were killed on Friday in two separate explosions at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in central Jakarta, just over a week after the world’s most populous Muslim majority nation...
...His successor, Gerry Murphy, a former logistics executive, presided over the collapse of the company’s first digital foray....
...Mr Murphy, the former chief executive of Carlton Communications, joined Kingfisher in 2003 just a year before UK interest rates rises began to bite and consumers’ love affair with home improvement ended...
...He joined Kingfisher from Carlton Communications when he had no media experience at the outset. He knew little about logistics when he joined NFC and helped steer it towards a merger with Ocean....
...Old expat favourites such as Mad Murphys, an Irish pub on Tolebi street, and the cosy Line Brew grill by the Eiffel tower on Furmanov now have many competitors....
...Jack Murphy, San Francisco, US Bernd Schmitt: The issue is not which one is most effective in general....
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