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...Harrington’s report proposes that the OFI, created in 2020, should play a higher profile role as a “one-stop shop” providing a concierge service for investors....
...“The Harrington blueprint risks running into under-resourced local government and a planning system which incentivises housing over investment sites,” he added....
...Thatcher was a liberaliser who abolished exchange controls, curbed militant unions, made the City of London a global financial centre and wooed Japanese car manufacturers....
...More recently, the Tory peer Lord Richard Harrington singled out regulators in his October 2023 report for the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt into how to attract more foreign investment to the UK....
...The report was a partial re-tread of Lord Richard Harrington’s excellent plan (commissioned by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt) to re-attract investment to the UK. The political subtext of this is interesting....
...Stephen Phipson, chief executive of the manufacturers’ lobby group Make UK, said in May: “A lack of a proper, planned, industrial strategy is the UK’s Achilles heel....
...As data analysis by Sussex university’s UK Trade Policy Observatory has shown, UK freeports don’t have the classic advantages of “duty inversion”, where manufacturers get to import inputs tariff-free and...
...BlackRock is basically the world’s biggest manufacturer of investment products....
...As the balaclava-clad man blasted a double-barrelled shotgun out of the back of a Lexus, Karim dived for cover. Shotgun pellets hit his house, wall and wheelie bin....
...Emefiele, once one of Nigeria’s most powerful men, had been charged with illegally owning a shotgun....
...In a letter to clients Howard Marks and Tony Harrington, who founded Oaktree, said they believed the opportunities in large-scale direct lending were “exceptional”....
...CS’s share price had gone into a tailspin. DD readers know what happened next: frantic negotiations culminating in a shotgun merger with its fierce rival UBS....
...I am extremely grateful to Lord Harrington for his excellent report on how to increase foreign direct investment. We accept all his headline recommendations....
...Spencer made money in business early in his life: he rose to lead firearms manufacturer Cooper Arms, a maker of single-shot shotguns, and sold the company in 1997 for an undisclosed sum at the age of 41....
...Ryan Busse, author of Gunfight, grew up on a ranch in north-west Kansas. Hunting was part of his life; one year he and his brother received shotguns for Christmas....
...There’s a feeling among manufacturers and developers of wind projects that the anti feeling in France partly comes from that from, you know, a sort of strong, pro-nuclear lobby group that doesn’t necessarily...
...Having said that, shares in the manufacturers of handguns, shotguns and “modern sporting rifles” such as the old AR-15 had a pretty good run from July 2020 to early this year....
...Activist investor Harrington Investments, as we reported last month, filed a similar resolution at Bank of America and intends to file one next year with JPMorgan Chase....
...In a video message, Tom Enders, chief executive, said Airbus — one of Britain’s largest manufacturers — “could be forced to redirect future investments” in the event of a no-deal Brexit....
...In a highly unusual intervention, business minister Richard Harrington also said a hard Brexit would be a “disaster for business”, adding: “I am very happy to be public about it and very happy if the prime...
...I paraphrased a manufacturer I’d spoken to in North Carolina, who summed up the bargain of the last twenty years with China this way: “As long as you let us export Coke . . . you can send us all the cheap...
...UK residents who want to travel to EU countries with a firearm or shotgun are advised to “contact the authorities of the countries concerned for information about their licensing requirements”....
...A manufacturer of “gender reveal” products called Poof There It Is! has made more than 36,000 sales on Etsy in less than two years....
...John Gonzalez was one of many China-based exporters and manufacturers waking up on Wednesday and struggling to analyse the impact of Trump administration plans for a 25 per cent tariff on more than 1,300...
...“If you are the only one left, rather than becoming a burden, being a British-based manufacturer becomes a USP,” says John Smedley’s Maclean....
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