Hints and tips:
...Despite the appointment of mining veteran Ian Cockerill as chief executive, analysts at Berenberg said there was scope for it to become an M&A target....
...“I can write my own narrative as I’m playing.”...
...After returning from a tour of the country, chief executive Pascal Soriot said in April the company had “no limitation” on buying Chinese businesses....
...“I’m not offering myself because I think it would be a big deal, but because it wouldn’t be,” she tells a psychologist at the Parn Institute....
...There has been a wave of M&A activity in the oil patch, led by consolidation among large US drillers who almost exclusively are using stock to finance acquisitions....
...Her pay at the family-owned company dwarfs the remuneration offered by listed FTSE 100 groups, where Pascal Soriot, boss of pharma group AstraZeneca, was the highest paid executive in 2022 with annual earnings...
...If James Stewart wears a jacket like that, so can Pedro Pascal!”...
...Here is an excerpt of what GPT-4 had to say: And here is an excerpt of Bard’s take: Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator, writes: I’m sure that much of what Putin and Xi say to each other...
...“I’m totally relaxed about it. It’s something that will probably come while I’m chair but if possible in the later years,” he said of the day when Soriot eventually departs....
...AstraZeneca said at the time it did “not comment on rumours or speculations around future strategy or M&A”....
...Pascal Soriot, AstraZeneca’s chief executive, said eight medicines delivered more than $1bn of revenue in the first half, with each area of the business, except Covid-19 therapies, growing by double digits...
...Chef Pascal Barbot, who has been at the helm for decades, is a goldsmith of the Parisian gastronomic scene....
...Another of the duo’s landmark projects is the 2017 Lycée Blaise Pascal gymnasium, which won the best sports building award at the World Architecture Festival....
...Think of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Josephine Tey, James M Cain, Richard Stark, Pascal Garnier — think of Georges Simenon! Let me make an essential distinction....
...I’m up to speed on the fungi apocalypse and Pedro Pascal. I like to think I know what’s going on. But lately, I’m getting rather sloppy. I’ve found myself behind the curve....
...The podcast I’m listening to? Podcasts aren’t my thing. I am a visual learner – I prefer to read and watch....
...Pascal Donat, CEO of Valotel, tells me he’s not just aiming for a “branchée” or fashionista customer — rather he has in mind a fortysomething woman who works and has children, but essentially wants some...
...“I’m not going to sit around and not take action because the responsible adults think there might be geopolitical consequences.”...
...I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. Welcome to this, our first podcast of 2024....
...Schneider Electric’s Jean-Pascal Tricoire is set to step down as chief executive after nearly 20 years at the helm. Bank of America is planning job cuts within its investment bank, per Bloomberg....
...And frankly speaking, when I look at things to come, I’m pretty horrified, and I’ve been in international issues for, what, 30, 40 years of my life....
...“I’m extremely proud of this project,” says von Oesen, adding that many companies dismiss the idea of putting solar panels on water as too expensive....
...After petits fours, I return to the bar to catch up with Pascal Deyrolle, the train’s general manager....
...“I’m not confident we will be able to reach an agreement” in the OECD on the first pillar of the tax reform, he said....
...Schneider’s chair and chief executive, Jean-Pascal Tricoire, told analysts on Wednesday that the company wanted to “accelerate the path to deliver to our customers one data hub”....
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