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...If these services prove as popular as hoped, a range of second-tier companies could also grow rapidly....
...Sialkot’s manufacturers had earlier begun haemorrhaging sales to China, factories such as those of Forward and Vision expanded from hand-stitching balls with cheap labour to techniques such as “thermo bonding...
...Startup Girl has helped fund 11 women-led companies to date, including Sea Star, a water-shoe company; Pepper, which makes underwear; and Bouches, which makes South African leather goods....
...Climbing on swing sets, clicking puzzles together and bonding over board games have surged in popularity....
...Until last week, Tsai Ming-kai, the Taiwanese billionaire once known as China’s “bandit phone king”, was on a roll....
...“The key ingredient isn’t the social-bonding stuff,” he said. What matters is being “synced up on a commonality of purpose”....
...He claimed Citi’s dismissal was based on his conversations with currency dealers at rival banks in chat rooms — including one nicknamed the ‘Bandits Club’....
...This year’s plans include bonding sessions with peers, such as “virtual dinners where [interns] bring their own meals or cook as they go” and a virtual speaker series, which will include Citi chief executive...
...For the great and the good of the business and political worlds who are gathered in Davos this week to perform their annual ritual of social bonding, that should provide plenty of food for thought....
...It can inspire bonding through water-cooler chats, most recently about Fleabag’s priest and H’s identity in The Line of Duty. It can also be profound....
...If it completes the deal for Acuris, London-based BC Partners — which bought the business from Pearson at just £382m in 2013 — is likely to make out like bandits....
...— How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company and HuffPost stories. — A rapper and an 81-year-old woman just met in person after bonding over Words With Friends for more than a year....
...According to the company, the new facilities enable it to borrow up to £834m, and analysts reckon net debt will reach at least £600m this year....
...“Most of our generation want to have jobs abroad, but we have strict family bonding,” Grace said. “Parents here want their children to come home.”...
...Yes, we want robots capable of friendship and familial love, of this kind of bonding....
...Such experiences seem as far from my Swiss conference suite and bonding exercises with human resources executives as hippy communes are from the suburban commute....
...Before retiring in 1995, Ms Kaplan, 65, ran the New England division of the education provider Kaplan, Inc, the company her father, Stanley, had founded in 1938 to prepare students for standardised tests...
...“Medivation is making out like a bandit because of federally funded Xtandi,” says Andrew Goldman of Knowledge Ecology International, a non-profit organisation. “What about taxpayers and patients?”...
...“But with social media we have daily bonding.” “We used to have elections every five years, but now it is every five minutes. This is a huge strength of democracy,” he said....
...The company announced it has raised $26m in its latest funding round....
...This will improve and extend maternal bonding with frozen eggs, or fridge magnets as they will be known....
...Contrast all of that with the now-shattered dream of bonding with Omnicom’s roughly $14.6bn in annual revenues....
...“The games rooms, all the food you can eat, it is all male bonding rituals that are not geared towards women and families....
...The group of traders in the chat rooms was known by various monikers including “The Bandits’ Club,” and “The Cartel,” the people said.”...
...And its parent’s latest convertible bond, issued this week, netted the company Y150bn, or $1.8bn....
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