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...There will also be an undisclosed amount of debt financing provided by a group of private lenders including Blackstone Credit, HPS Investment Partners and Blue Owl Capital....
...That prompted Blue Prism’s board to begin consulting with shareholders about a potential sale, the company said on Tuesday, pointing to the need for “considerable continued investment” in product development...
...Funk, who at 22 had been the youngest of the Mercury 13 crew, is now set to become the oldest person to travel to space....
...It is an industry worth more than $4bn a year, according to Burton Taylor International Consulting, and S&P’s 25 per cent market share puts it marginally ahead of MSCI and FTSE Russell....
...Bryan Lanza, a former Trump campaign adviser, is a partner at Washington lobbying and public affairs firm Mercury LLC....
...“There is too much regulation of something that should be like the Wild West,” said Richard Rocket, head of New Space Global, a US space consulting firm....
...We doubt Torontonians would be content with Exxon consulting on local fracking legislation. Regarding data, Sidewalk Toronto were equally as vague....
...The idea was used in the Apollo, Mercury and Soyuez rocket programmes and last trialled in 1964-66....
...Sportswear company Nike began life as Blue Ribbon Sports. Struggling brands sometimes change their names to distance themselves from negative publicity....
...The party to celebrate Bloomberg Businessweek magazine’s 85th anniversary took place under a 21,000lb fibreglass model of a blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History....
...Eighty years have passed since Levi’s launched its female version of the blue jean and denim is still at the cutting edge of fashion....
...We had upside surprises from banks as well as from a couple of blue-chip companies,” said Doug Cote, chief investment strategist at ING Investment Management....
...Daniel Enskat, senior managing director and head of global consulting at Strategic Insight, expects “a shift to equities away from fixed income until 2020, with the equity side continuing to grow in 2012...
...● Neville McKay has moved from Towers Watson to Aon Hewitt Associates to join the retirement consulting team....
...The price of Procter & Gamble, a blue-chip consumer product group, seen as a safe stock, fell 37 per cent in a matter of minutes....
...We asked them to use consulting firms to look at strategy otherwise we wouldn’t approve the accounts.” Needless to say Mr van Beuningen had his way, but not before a new board was appointed....
...In the red corner was Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader; in the blue, Pat Robertson, the televangelist and former Republican presidential hopeful....
...Kerik now plans to spend more time with his consulting company. At least he has a nice cushion to work with. observer@ft.com...
...Does that make Big Blue a specialist or a quasi-conglomerate?...
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