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...Alvarez & Marsal has expanded its tax advisory offering with the appointment of Victoria Price as a managing director. Price was previously at EY....
...One senior UK investment banker said there was “a bit of a brain drain” away from listed corporations towards private equity-backed businesses....
...It was the first European capital to declare a zero waste target. Both tourists and prime property buyers are drawn to Ljubljana’s romantic Old Town, with its fairy tale-like Dragon Bridge....
...That’s the target of Valuable 500’s “Gen V” mentoring scheme, which pairs a senior executive with a young disabled employee....
...As always, drop your story ideas to me at sid.v@ft.com and have a great week....
...Daveu has put sustainability at the heart of the Kering growth strategy and is sharing her ambitious targets, as well as progress against them and learnings so far....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...already reached about 40 per cent of its target for the financial year....
...Deflated valuations have made fintech targets more enticing as large corporations seek to transform digitally, with strategies akin to Lloyds’ £1bn digitisation plan....
...“It’s a V- shaped return in Paris whereas in the UK you wouldn’t even be able to write a U,” he said....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...A December report by professional services company Alvarez & Marsal identified 148 European companies as potential targets for activist investors in the next 12 months....
...This shoot, for example, depicted not only “sustainability” and “gardening” but family bonding, technology and ageing — extra “targets” that advertisers might be looking for....
...Even before the company had harvested its first tomato, AppHarvest announced plans to go public through a deal with Novus Capital Corporation at a $1bn valuation....
...It created social inequality, he said, and it positioned corporations to be uncompetitive in the global market....
...(FT, WSJ) Earnings round-up US retailers Target, Khol’s and Nordstrom all release earnings today....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...He revealed that WikiLeaks was planning to target financial institutions along with corporate tax evasion, a key target of UK Uncut....
...The chairman of Indian Oil Corporation, the country’s biggest refiner, predicted demand would begin to rebound only by year-end as the coronavirus pandemic hits one of the world’s largest energy markets....
...There will be no fast, perfect, V-shaped recovery for economies given the substantial areas that remain damaged....
...Regardless, Santander said it expected no impact on its capital level or midterm financial targets and was “well-positioned to withstand even a severe stress scenario”....
...On Tuesday shares in the targets, large French companies such as LVMH, Kering and Hermès, barely dipped. Kering produces the vast majority of its goods in Italy, not France....
...When Carney spoke six weeks ago, many policymakers were still confident of a sharp v-shaped recovery....
...We rate Cineworld Underweight with a 60p price target....
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
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