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...European coffee group JDE Peet’s is replacing its two top executives as controlling shareholder JAB Holding seeks to shake-up the owner of L’Or, Kenco and Douwe Egberts following a long period of underperformance...
...It is almost as if a job was kept open for him as he attended first the famous Lycée Louis-le-Grand, then, like his father, l’École Polytechnique, finally becoming the first Arnault to work in the watch...
...However, the accounts show £2.5bn has been paid in “internal” dividends over the past five years....
...His analysis of AI funds globally showed that the top 10 holdings include six of the Magnificent Seven, with Apple the sole exception....
...When l told my wife, she asked if I’d lost the house (which we owned outright). l said, no, even l was not that stupid. She then laughed and said that it ‘doesn’t really matter much then’....
...for set of three, matchesfashion.com Lukhanyo Mdingi viscose-mix knitted fringed maxi dress, £1,495, net-a-porter.com Ulla Johnson cotton Freda embroidered shorts, £342, net-a-porter.com Dior raffia C’...
...It doesn’t activate until you sprinkle the right dose (2-3 shakes) into a serum or moisturiser....
...The company axed more than 500 of 2,400 stores during the pandemic but it still has €3.1bn in net debt, or four times ebitda....
...Last year it shed the peanut allergy business acquired as part of its $2.6bn purchase of biopharmaceutical company Aimmune in 2020 — but only after taking a $2.1bn impairment two years later....
...In 2022, McKillen was awarded L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for his contribution to the country’s culture....
...That it landed moments before an Oct 2 deadline added to the drama....
...L’Oréal Hapta, price still to be set RM The pocket laptop This dinky 7in mini-laptop is fully modular, upgradable, repairable and ultimately recyclable....
...“What’s opened the door to these improvements is the better than expected inflation figures,” said David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...We’re not holding our breath....
...Instead of embarking on a flurry of spending, municipal governments appear to be holding on to their funds....
...They called for a “collaborative and partnership-oriented” approach across teams, commercial partners and the sport’s governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA)....
...Passive funds managed to increase their share of the global market by 2.3 per cent to 38 per cent, according to Morningstar Direct data....
...When time came for questions and speeches from the floor, there was less holding back....
...The delivery of the MSC Euribia from the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard on France’s west coast in May led to a surge in the country’s exports....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
...For a borrower with a £200,000 mortgage over 25 years on a standard variable rate of 7.99 per cent, their payments will rise by £67 a month — or £800 a year — according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...Customers buy L’Oréal products in response to the pitch “because you’re worth it”. They need to be: the SkinCeuticals Vitamin C antioxidant serum is hardly a snip at £165 for 30ml....
...In spite of expectations that the Bank of England will raise its main interest rate this week, lenders’ appetite for business had sparked a renewed “price war” for new customers, L&C said....
...It is the second-largest takeover of an Australian consumer company this year after French cosmetics group L’Oréal bought luxury soap maker Aesop for $2.5bn this month....
...It begins with a film studies professor (Samara Weaving) holding forth on the genre as outsider art, before abruptly discovering the downside of giving C minus marks for essays on Italian giallo chillers...
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