Hints and tips:
...The brand, which soon attracted King Louis-Philippe as a customer, continues to be known for its French-made candlesticks, cutlery and champagne buckets....
...Crystalline windows refract the taxis pulling up on the street below and throw rainbows over the champagne-coloured interior. It feels like sitting in a showroom. Why here, I ask?...
...“If I were the CEO of Siemens or Schneider Electric I would have opened a bottle of champagne,” said Andreas Willi, a veteran analyst of the capital goods industry at JPMorgan....
...Last year he advised Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis on its purchase of AveXis, structured General Electric’s $11bn locomotive combination with Wabtec, and offered advice on the $6.4bn sale of ABB’s...
...Kuka is a leading light in the “Industrie 4.0” drive to digitise industrial processes and create fully automated and networked factories....
...Consumers of chocolate, coffee and champagne have been thrown into the debate....
...There were hopes that the Swiss engineering group ABB might step in....
...But Francis Paonessa, chief executive of Bombardier UK, says the champagne is on ice until the ink is dry on the contract....
...Among the sport’s other backers are Audi, the German carmaker that sponsors the annual Audi Polo Awards, Veuve Clicquot, the champagne house, and Julius Baer, the Swiss private bank....
...For champagne makers, the country is full of promise. The Chinese champagne market is 20 times bigger than it was at the turn of the century....
...market for luxury goods has exploded as incomes have risen – particularly in emerging markets such as Russia and China, where many consumers have been able to afford Italian handbags and dresses as well as champagne...
...ABB, a Swiss/Swedish combination which conducted its affairs in English, was for a time a true citizen of the world. But its business performance has disappointed....
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