Hints and tips:
...It’s rare for buyout partners to become executives of the companies they own. Cutting costs, 3G sold off the 1,300 company-owned restaurants to franchisees....
...But as befits a suite in a hotel of this calibre, it’s been sensitively embellished and extended by no less an architect than Richard Rogers’ practice Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners....
...It’s one of the most atmospheric restaurants in the world. An outside terrace decorated with twinkling lights looks over the Grand Harbour onto the boats moored below....
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...Do you have a favourite pub or restaurant there? There is a little place in Elie called The Ship Inn (www.ship-elie.com), right on the harbour, which I love to stop off at....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Around the corner, on Valletta’s Grand Harbour, the €25m Valletta Waterfront project has seen the restoration of the historic Pinto and Forni warehouses, transforming them into a buzzing café and restaurant...
...predictable: three months later, Chase coughed up about $500m for the Beacon Group, a tiny mergers and acquisitions boutique, to obtain the services and cachet of Geoff Boisi, the former Goldman Sachs partner...
...Wolf is leaving McKinsey, where he was managing partner of the media and entertainment team, to become MTV Networks’ president and chief operating officer....
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