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...We created a relatively small site called 24S, which unfortunately is no exception to the rule,” Bernard Arnault, LVMH chief executive, told investors in February 2020....
...“Dad [Nick Ashley, one of Laura and Bernard’s four children] talked about her all the time....
...The late 1980s saw interior decorating styles that popularised botanical drawings, catalysed by brands such as Laura Ashley. Many were cut out of books and resold as individual prints....
...In London, she and her husband Bernard invested £10 in wood, dyes and linen to start a silkscreen operation making headscarves and tea towels....
...The retailer, founded by Laura and Bernard Ashley in 1954, has been in difficulty for some time....
...The PIF’s months-long crusade to complete a £300m purchase of English football club Newcastle United from billionaire British tycoon Mike Ashley ended in disaster....
...Smart reads Posh pre-nup Almost a decade ago, the luxury leather goods purveyor Hermès was betrothed to LVMH and its “wolf in cashmere” boss Bernard Arnault....
...The retailer was founded by Laura and Bernard Ashley in 1953, after the couple began printing fabric on their kitchen table....
...Influencers and Alphaville followers everywhere: behold the latest, greatest going-out-of-business sale (and we’re not talking about Laura Ashley, though that’s pretty great too). The goods?...
...A spokesperson for administrators EY said that at the time they were appointed “there was no other offer on the table” apart from Mr Ashley’s....
...Together with Ashley Martin-Davis’s beautifully suggestive designs, and some hallucinatory black-and-white film, Warner has potently invoked a cinematic melodrama of the period....
...Bernard Madoff gave his investors steady returns in the hope that they would not investigate his activities; that they wouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. He was right for many years....
...Ashley Beneke, a 24-year-old well-site operations engineer, explained the day’s work from a cabin overlooking the work of drilling staff. “We are at the heart of our operations on the platform . . ....
...Sir Bernard Ashley, who died in 2009, probably thought the same. In 1999 — the first full year after it was rescued by a Malaysian conglomerate — sales were £224m....
...He said that the company, founded by husband and wife team Laura and Bernard Ashley in London in 1953, would introduce more lower-priced furniture to “make sure we offer best value to our customers”....
...Ashley Tabor, founder and executive president of Global, the UK’s largest commercial radio group, receives an OBE....
...Over a lunch of steamed dumplings in a nearby Chinese restaurant, Bernard Gilly, chief executive of GenSight, poses a question: why do you so rarely see a blind person on the street when there are more than...
...Ashley Shaw is lovely, light and unfailingly expressive but Victoria Page needs to be a blazing talent (as Moira Shearer was) if we are to share her Svengali’s sense of waste when she abandons her precious...
...Harry Markopolos The self-confessed maths geek repeatedly blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff’s vast Ponzi scheme to anyone who would listen....
...Maybe owner Bernard Arnault should be done with it and give Anderson the still-vacant creative director’s job. But wait, there are others with their own fierce intent....
...One of the first to arrive was her teenaged cousin Reinhard Alsberg, who soon became Ashley Raeburn, whom I only knew as the consummate English gentleman....
...And I’m thinking Denzel Washington for Hillcoat’s tough but caring boss Bernard Kantor… Mogul: …who tells Hatstand: “Kid, you’re the best we got....
...emma.jacobs@ft.com Twitter: @emmavj Letter in response to this column: A millennial coach’s skill sets may be found wanting / From Paul Bernard...
...The dance-play Far But Close, to a score by New Age classical composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, asks “how broken people love each other”....
...The group, which started life on the kitchen table of founders Laura and Bernard Ashley almost 50 years ago, also operates internationally from 263 franchised stores, where revenue grew 15 per cent to £13.7m...
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