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...Some, such as Francis of Assisi and Godric of Finchale, both of great merchant wealth, found they couldn’t and chose to give up their riches....
...In the UK and the US, the big export market for Brunellos, merchants have reported a strong debut for the 2019 vintage....
...“I have friends who voted for it and now think it was a big con,” said Alan Harmer, a social worker and Labour supporter in the town of Grays....
...More to the point, fine wine merchants found me. A tale was spun about an insufficient supply of bubbly at the worldwide millennium celebrations to come....
...alan.livsey@ft.com...
...In previous centuries the saying was that “trade followed the flag” — commerce went alongside colonial expansion — and the distinction between the merchant and military navy was often blurred....
...These can drive sales for any particular wine, so merchants rely on them....
...Connolly and Koester were pivotal players at Goldman’s merchant bank, which was merged into the bank’s asset management arm in 2020....
...Chief financial officer Alan Williams said the company would seek to mitigate costs by reducing headcount....
...White & Case has hired Alan Bao as a partner in Beijing to join their mergers and acquisitions business. Bao joins from O’Melveny....
...Immigration: Governments in rich countries are performatively hostile to asylum seekers to distract voters from economic migrants, writes Alan Beattie....
...Museum shows can entice prime works to market and so it is with Wayne Thiebaud....
...Even established fine wine merchants offer whisky. “The ability to own old and rare liquid is in great demand,” says Matthew O’Connell at Bordeaux Index....
...He would often recount how he’d been rehearsing Alan Bennett’s play The Habit of Art at the National Theatre in 2010 and suddenly collapsed, in fear....
...Wayne Berson, the head of BDO USA, told the FT earlier this month that his firm planned to double its overseas staff and shift more work offshore because of the shortage....
...They have appointed Raine Group, the same merchant bank that handled the Chelsea transaction, to run the bidding process with initial bids now in....
...Cédric Bouchard’s 2012 La Bolorée, an unusual 100 per cent pinot blanc Champagne, trades at £360 a bottle, up 80 per cent this year, according to fine wine merchants and traders Bordeaux Index....
...I am quoting Alan out of context, of course, so you should read his full write-up of the epic June 2022 ministerial....
...A former JPMorgan director, Alan Greenspan, was chair of the Fed and in his pomp. Inflation was under control, exchange rates stable and markets roaring....
...During the year it added 44 new merchant customers, including McAfee, HBO, Paramount, NFL and Duolingo....
...That allowed them to commission the sculptor Alan Herriot to fashion a life-size bronze statue of a young woman with her son, looking anxiously out to sea, standing to one side of the harbour....
...I met Wayne Jones, the Turf’s landlord, earlier as he flipped burgers. We sat talking on a bench, interrupted at one point by a visitor from Oklahoma....
...Virgin Wines, another direct-to-consumer wine merchant, has fallen by three-quarters since its initial public offering last March....
...The Merchants Bordeaux Index tracks just ten wines in its Burgundy version, from the 2001 to 2014 vintages, using only data from transactions....
...The merchant reined in marketing spend on occasions as a result of inflation, which might have affected its ability to acquire more new customers....
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