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...If the two stores — one on Rue de la Chaussée-d’Antin in the 9ème arrondissement and the other on Rue du Bac, near the fashionable Saint-Germain-des-Prés district — are successful, Casino plans to roll out...
...The event was at the London branch of KidZania, a global theme-park chain founded by a Mexican entrepreneur, which offers children the chance to role-play in a variety of real-life jobs....
...What kind of adult with a real job would spend an evening pretending to be a child imitating an adult with a real job?...
...“The price of drumsticks in the supermarket is 5 reals [$1.40] a kilogramme: that barely pays for water to produce the meat,” Mario Lanznaster, president of Aurora Alimentos, Brazil’s third-largest pork...
...Fibra Uno, the country’s biggest Reit, helped unlock the value of Mexican real estate and has raised some $7bn in the past three and a half years, Mr Fitzgerald says....
...The acid test looms: will real competition result once the dust settles?...
...Jonathan Guthrie is the FT’s City editor Michael Zaoui CV Born Fez, Morocco, 1956 Education Masters in Law from Université de Paris, doctorate from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Harvard MBA Career Joined...
...But she insists the project has been successful in providing a rapid expansion on capacity on the notoriously busy roads, as well as real choice for drivers....
...Ditto for Corporacion Inmobiliaria Vesta, a commercial real estate company, which raised 2.49bn pesos ($189m) through a follow-on offering....
...“The real discussions will begin now,” said one person with knowledge of the situation. “The foundation is drawing a line in the sand.”...
...“There’s a North Sea asset base with real value – I think it’s going to be hard for people not to value that as part of the equation.”...
...The decision to list Sanborns follows Mr Slim’s move to spin off his mining and real estate companies from Grupo Carso two years ago....
...Acquiring Beam would be a nice pre-emptive swipe at Pernod Ricard of France, which trails Diageo by a wide margin in the US and whose only real chance at doubling its 10 per cent market share in the country...
...Elsewhere, get ready for years of weak growth in China, according to Credit Suisse; China’s rich are not waiting – they are piling in on US residential and commercial real estates....
...Simon Gleeson, partner at the Clifford Chance law firm, said “Regulators have tended to …assert that changes in bank capital regulation should in theory have no impact on real-world bank behaviour....
...The initiative gained real urgency after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001....
...“They are offering very low rates of returns and in some cases even negative real rates of return once inflation is taken into account....
...So Renzo Piano, Herzog & De Meuron – they helped open the profession to an artistic-ness that had not been there for a long time. They made thoughtful buildings after generations of rubberstamping.”...
...“Sa-kart-ve-lo!” (Georgia!), he yelled, smiling with faint bemusement at the crowd’s answering roar....
...Her CV reads as an object lesson in elite French education, with degrees from Sciences Po, the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, followed by four years...
...Ahead of the antitrust fine, the Mexican news service Sentido Comun estimates that mining and real estate businesses led to a 10 per cent increase in his wealth in the first quarter – to about $82bn....
...Elenilto is a subsidiary of Engelinvest, a Tel Aviv-based private company that develops Russian real estate and invests in mining concessions....
...Of course it’s an exaggeration – but you can’t deny that there’s real drive there.”...
...The sector is now seen to be ripe for further consolidation – and expansion – as demand is expected to grow rapidly in an acceleration of infrastructure and real estate development....
...“It’s been a real headache,” he says. Meanwhile, many Mexicans are insufficiently literate to register or lack documents, such as birth certificates....
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