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...This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘China is not out of the woods yet’ Marc Filippino Good morning from the Financial Times....
...BP has named Kate Thomson as interim chief financial officer, following last week’s management upheaval prompted by the sudden resignation of chief executive Bernard Looney....
...BP has appointed Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc as its next senior independent director in the first major shake-up of the oil major’s board since the departure of CEO Bernard Looney....
...It suffered heavy hits in 2008 from the collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers and from its exposure to the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, but finally paid back all its bailout-related debt to the state in 2015...
...Its Prospect coffee table, for example, is made from reclaimed wood and treated using the Japanese technique of shou-sugi-ban, whereby the wood is flame-charred and blackened....
...Job moves Bernard Arnault is to nominate two more of his sons to the board of LVMH, further consolidating the hold of the controlling family’s next generation over the world’s biggest luxury group....
...BP chief executive Bernard Looney’s pay more than doubled to £10mn last year after the UK-listed energy group delivered a record $28bn in profits....
...In the months ahead we will keep a sharp focus on corporate news, including the fallout from the FT scoop this week on the resignation of BP boss Bernard Looney....
...It’s also the first big acquisition spearheaded by Exxon chief Darren Woods....
...While some analysts believe BP might appear vulnerable to a takeover given its lagging share price and the resignation of CEO Bernard Looney last month, Shell may not be best positioned to strike....
...In 2010, he banned the export of unprocessed logs and encouraged investments to process wood into furniture and finished products....
...“Automata perfectly integrate the things that we love: métier d’art, woodmaking, and wood marquetry, our knowledge about stones and high jewellery, watchmaking and automata making,” says Bernard....
...When the objects are left outdoors, the metal reacts with the tannins in the wood over time, and the moisture bleeds down its surface in dark streaks....
...Yet in Finland and Sweden, where households rely on a combination of district heating — industrial-scale boilers that distribute heat to homes — electric heating and wood-burning stoves, gas provides less...
...The critic Roger Ebert compared Sembène to George Bernard Shaw: “He made political films that didn’t seem political, and comedies that were very serious.”...
...Finkel describes him as a collector, which is like calling Bernard Madoff an accountant....
...When Picasso passed away in 1973, Bernard’s father, Paulo, inherited the estate. But just two years later, Paulo died, leaving Bernard, then only 14, at the helm....
...Then there is BP’s chief executive Bernard Looney whose package more than doubled to £10mn last year....
...Samantha Woodworth, senior research analyst covering the US wind industry at Wood Mackenzie, said many of the project owners were looking to renegotiate their power purchase agreements....
...But its cashmere-clad billionaire founder Bernard Arnault is still on the hunt and private equity firms are also circling. Some brands have managed to stave off takeovers....
...One such visit to the studios of Jonas Wood and Alex Israel turned out to be fruitful for Louis Vuitton — the two took part in a 2019 project in which artists reimagined the top-selling Capucines handbag...
...glittering chandeliers crowned by a buzzing roof-top restaurant – as where you can “get inspiration for your mega-yacht while eating American food”: customers can expect to pay from around $2,195 for a wood...
...There is an ironic symbolism in the news that Bernard Arnault, the buttoned-up French boss of LVMH and purveyor of fancy frocks, handbags and champagne to the comfortable classes, has overtaken the futuristic...
...There is a version of the classic Kelly model with painted wood panelling, a clutch decorated with whimsical interplanetary designs — which sells for €22,000 — and several others where the leather is moulded...
...Meanwhile, hundreds of specialists across France are working to restore treasures such as the cathedral’s massive metal and wood organ and smoke-stained paintings....
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