Hints and tips:
...“Anytime you’re talking about large players like this merging, one has to not just look at competitive effects, one also has to look at the impact on financial stability.”...
Money for research will be required but salvation may come from a partnership with GSK
...“Now there are other countervailing interests, such as the security of energy supply, that have come to the fore and which are not going to go [away] anytime soon,” he said....
...She asks for coffee and says she’s “really jetlagged” – though when I’d entered the sumptuous fitness centre at what I thought an unconscionably early hour for a weekend morning, she was already wrapping...
...Witness the fitness of this 375-year old perpetual bond. Lekdijk Bovendams doesn’t exist any more, and even the issuance currency has disappeared....
...Sleath, a vegetarian, fitness-obsessed triathlete, is no archetypal property boss....
...The scheme will treat founders akin to high-performance athletes, tapping clinicians to treat their nutrition, fitness, sleep and mental health....
...Mindbody, Stollmeyer’s software business that powered the systems of gyms and fitness studios, announced just before Christmas 2018 that it had a deal to sell itself to Vista Equity Partners....
...Jordan, who once aspired to build his own fitness empire in Michigan, is instead fighting F45 in court....
...Commenting on landlords’ interest in the £5bn UK gym sector, Neil Randall, chief executive of Anytime Fitness, said: “Gyms are venues that drive footfall....
...That emphasis on togetherness seems to have taken a back seat when it comes to the connected fitness group’s hiring practices, though, as it raced to find new leadership in the face of declining sales and...
...It was a filing made by an entity named FCM BBBY Holdings, LLC which listed its address as a nondescript Wyoming office building....
...Other large positions cut include crypto-firm Coinbase, internet retailer Warby Parker, music group Spotify and connected-fitness bet Peloton Interactive, according to the filings....
...Over time, though, the technology’s improved, the battery life’s better, the applications are smarter [in] health and fitness and safety, and that’s a kind of augmented reality device that’s not a phone....
...It also significantly reduced its exposure to trading app Robinhood, selling almost 80 per cent of its stake, and Peloton, the beleaguered connected fitness company. Tiger Global declined to comment....
...Neil Randall, chief executive of Anytime Fitness UK, which has 190 franchises, said: “The city clubs are hurting harder, undoubtedly....
...But unlike that fateful Sex and the City episode, many of the cubs’ hedge fund peers saw the fitness group’s tour de trouble coming from a mile away....
...That investment makes it unlikely that Apple’s first headset will do to the Quest what the iPhone did to the BlackBerry anytime soon....
...Peloton under activist attackPeloton has come under attack from an activist investor who has demanded that the maker of connected fitness bikes and treadmills sack its chief executive and explore a sale...
...Peloton’s share price climbed from $28 at the end of 2019 to peak at more than $170 in early 2021, as investors bet that the maker of connected fitness bikes and treadmills would prosper during lockdowns...
...Yesterday’s Big Read examines whether supply chain disruption in the global economy is likely to end anytime soon. Spoiler alert: it isn’t....
...In the first month of the pandemic, average hours spent on mental health and fitness apps rose 30 per cent, according to PitchBook data....
...I mean, that’s not changing anytime soon. So I guess in those cultures, the kind of long hours cultures, it’s hard to see where the impetus for a short working week will be....
...“They’re trying to figure out, what’s a good fitness routine — one that’s at my level?” he said....
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