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...“I watched him build his empire and, by the way, it is an empire,” said Mary Ann Tighe, chief executive of another real estate firm CBRE’s New York office....
...Add in $15bn in pending deals and Stephen Schwarzman and Jonathan Gray’s deal machine is revving into full force....
...Paraskeva quit after Ann Gray, RICS president, accused her of making “false allegations” about the professional body to a minister and expressed an intention to remove her as SRB chair in a letter sent last...
...And then — and this was a real lightbulb moment — he suggests I bin the bright sample pots and paint the walls in “muddy” colours such as Farrow & Ball’s Dead Salmon and Blue Gray....
...Department store chain JCPenney and Ann Taylor-owner Ascena Retail alone occupied 6m square feet in its malls and accounted for $18.5m of CBL’s annual revenue....
...It joined the ranks of the largest womenswear retailers five years ago when it struck a deal to acquire Ann, parent company of Ann Taylor, LOFT and Lou & Grey, for about $2.16bn, giving it a total number...
...In recent weeks, chains including Brooks Brothers and Ann Taylor-owner Ascena Retail have filed for bankruptcy....
...But if yours tops that of Ann Hiatt’s, who in 2003 booked her boss Jeff Bezos on a helicopter that ended up crashing in the west Texas desert, do let us know. It’s probably worth a story....
...Ascena Retail, the womenswear group behind Ann Taylor, which catered for female office wear, has said it is evaluating “all options” to safeguard its business as it grapples with a heavy debt burden....
...Ascena Retail, the womenswear group behind Ann Taylor, has said it is evaluating “all options” to safeguard its business as it grapples with a $1.3bn term-loan burden....
...Ann Taylor parent Ascena Retail, which as of last summer employed 53,000 people, said all store workers would be put on leave....
...Wade Miquelon, chief executive of Jo-Ann Stores, an Ohio-based fabric and crafts chain with about 870 stores and 23,000 employees, said: “Our company will face tough decisions that could include job eliminations...
...Wade Miquelon, chief executive of Jo-Ann Stores, an Ohio-based fabric and crafts chain with about 870 stores and 23,000 employees, said that even if retailers did push up prices in response they risked hurting...
...Ann Marie Buerkle, acting chairman of the CPSC, said in prepared remarks that the agency had been “investigating incidents and analysing the data” on the product’s safety....
...Shares in the company, which owns women’s clothing chain Ann Taylor, slumped 28 per cent after its quarterly losses widened to $72m....
...As part of the overhaul, Ann Gloag will retire from her position as non-executive director. More here + Lex....
...The current chair of Ofgem, David Gray, will end his term on October 1....
...Mary Ann Scully, chief executive of Maryland-based Howard Bank, said: “I don’t think people are so worried that they’re cutting back or trying to get rid of what they have, but when new opportunities are...
...“We’re being very wary of it right now,” says Mary Ann Scully, chief executive of Maryland-based Howard Bank....
...Ann Kramer, partner at Reed Smith, said insurance company customers had been “burnt so often” by such deals with claims going unpaid....
...His mother Ann was born in Cape Town, the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants....
...John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge gave the UK Labour party the intellectual tools with which to build Jerusalem after the second world war....
...are increasing in number: the Londoner Gérard Faggionato closed his gallery and moved to David Zwirner earlier this year; and now the Chicago-based Valerie Carberry Gallery has merged with the Richard Gray...
...In 1938, a 55-year-old John Maynard Keynes wrote a speech entitled ‘My Early Beliefs’, to be published after his death....
...The bedroom is surrounded by foliage with no sight of trunk,” says Maynard....
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