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...Sotheby’s provided the top-billing celebrity sale of the year, with its £40mn auction of 1,406 items that belonged to the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury....
...Most criticism pointed to the thoughtless co-opting of the BLM movement. On the other end of the spectrum, Colin Kaepernick’s commercial for Nike the following year inflamed opinion....
...Co-chief executive Ted Sarandos once said it was based on “70 per cent gut and 30 per cent data. Most of it is informed hunches and intuition.”...
...MNG, which owns newspapers including the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, Boston Herald and the Orange County Register, said the result “is a win for an entrenched Gannett board that has been unwilling...
...Is the owner of about 200 titles, including The Denver Post, The San Jose Mercury News and The Boston Herald, acting in a more egregious manner than other publishers?...
...“If [clients] have excitement about the Elon Musk factor, it is a positive,” said Alan Pardee, managing partner at Mercury Capital Advisors, which marketed the new vehicle to investors....
...CSAM has also hired Imran Hameed as a director for the new group from Mercury Capital Advisors, a New York private equity firm....
...Macy’s like other major brick-and-retail department stores has suffered from the rise of online shopping and off-price chains like TJ Maxx and Marshalls, owned by TJX Cos, which buy designer threads at a...
...The company launched Backstage, its own off-price concept and has sough growth through partnering with beauty and spa chain Blue Mercury....
...A foundation stone by the entrance dates the building in Pennsylvania to 1938 and its cramped spaces inside give the feel of the engine room of a steamship....
...Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder, persuaded him to drop out to pursue it full-time....
...In one case, The xx, the London-based group that won the Mercury music prize for its debut album in 2010, collected email addresses of fans by holding ballots on Crowdsurge for tour tickets....
...Caleb Dorfman, an analyst at Simmons & Co, suggests that investors may be undervaluing the chance of a recovery....
...• During the war Samuel Ruben came up with the mercury cell, which was much more powerful than the traditional zinc carbon battery, which was mass produced for the military for use....
...Regulation: US takeover rules a concern for China Inc Not long after BGI said it was trying to buy Complete Genomics, an op-ed appeared in The San Jose Mercury News, a newspaper in the heart of Silicon...
...And compliance with the Mercury and Air Toxins Act, which has a 2015 deadline, requires investments in controlling acid and metal emissions....
...Mr Shaw was most recently at Cambridge Strategy and has held a number of senior positions at Arden Asset Management, GAM and Mercury Asset Management....
...In the 1990s, Prof Alexander was a consultant with Booz & Co working mainly in Europe and Asia....
...In July, Sanko Steamship filed for bankruptcy with $2bn of debt – a victim of shipping oversupply, rising fuel prices and declining freight charges....
...——————————————- ‘The Art of the Pop Video’ is at Fact in Liverpool until May 26, www.fact.co.uk; ‘The Best of BUG’, Bradford International Film Festival, April 18, www.bugvideos.co.uk See the curators’...
...Shipowners worldwide could be facing the biggest single default of the global shipping crisis after Sanko Steamship, one of Japan’s largest privately held shipping lines, asked owners of its more than 150...
...They’re like a steamship, not very flexible. We’re used to going pretty fast. Second is that we just didn’t want to teach them everything, which they could go and sell to our competitors.”...
...The EPA rules, which were meant to be effective from January 1, aim to curb mercury and sulphur emissions from power stations....
...Mr Prideaux, who moved into his current role a year ago, is in a good position to judge the outcome of the latest merger, having been through the wringer with the Merrill Lynch takeover of Mercury Asset...
...The valuation of Northcliffe, which publishes the Leicester Mercury, has fallen from about £1.5bn to £150m over the past five years amid the long-term circulation decline in the regional newspaper market...
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