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...The payouts have become a symbol of ill-advised financial decisions by the previous club owners, who also invested in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme....
...“He’s one of the most connected people I know of in New York,” Warner is alleged to have told Staley, who later became the boss of Barclays. Warner could not be reached for comment....
...The longtime chief executive of Warner Bros Records made a name for himself through astute signings — among his success stories were Frank Sinatra, Joni Mitchell, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Madonna....
...Data visualisation by Steven Bernard This article has been amended since original publication to correct the size of Blackwells’ stake in Disney...
...LVMH’s big succession question With five children, Bernard Arnault faces difficult choices in divvying up his luxury empire and preserving his legacy, The New York Times reports....
...But the scale of everything still frightened MGM off and Kubrick went to Warner Bros to make A Clockwork Orange instead, adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess, who also wrote the brilliantly mischievous...
...Another high-profile vehicle backed by LVMH founder Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier also recently fell on its sword....
...Bernard Looney, BP chief executive, set the £35bn debt target in August after cutting its dividend for the first time in a decade....
...The “handbag wars”, a multiyear battle for control of the Italian brand Gucci between LVMH boss Bernard Arnault and the billionaire chair of Kering group François Pinault, ended in Arnault’s defeat....
...AT&T’s $80bn acquisition of Warner left the company saddled in debt, restricting its ability to invest in its core business: telecoms. Anna Nicolaou 3....
...But the likes of Walt Disney, Comcast’s Universal Studios or AT&T’s Warner Bros are in no position to play superheroes....
...It backfired for Hock Tan, but will Bernard Arnault, Europe’s richest man and the mastermind behind the world’s most powerful luxury group LVMH, have better luck?...
...Canadian pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies also helped Warner Bros bring the Joker to cinemas....
...Just as Barber was writing Vanessa, Hitchcock’s Vertigo was about to hit the cinema screens, and what a marvellous soundtrack Barber might have composed for it, if Bernard Herrmann had not done so already...
...Another deal was a 37.5 per cent stake in the catalogue of Bernard Edwards, the Chic bassist who worked alongside Mr Rodgers as a musician and producer....
...The 60-year-old billionaire now owns Warner Music, one of the world’s three big record labels, and a house on London’s Kensington Palace Gardens....
...That’s Bernard Arnault, the so-called “wolf in cashmere”, known for his sphinx-like inscrutability....
...Gefors and his stage and music directors Keith Warner and Patrik Ringborg struck gold in booking Swedish soprano Nina Stemme, and have shaped the Bergman role of Alicia around her ability to alter the colour...
...Wales gives us Rhys Davies and Alun Lewis, Northern Ireland Bernard MacLaverty, Trinidad VS Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, and Dominica Jean Rhys. The rest are English....
...He remained involved with the drug as Parke-Davis was acquired first by Warner-Lambert and then Pfizer....
...This has, as I say, a more classical antecedent, but Warner makes it work beautifully....
...Bernard Munos, a veteran industry expert on R&D, says the AstraZeneca approach fits Pfizer’s habit of going shopping for growth to cover up its R&D failings....
...Again, fans will be happy, but the results sound dated and second-hand to me, while stolid guitarwork points to the absence of original guitarist Bernard Butler. Suede Bloodsports (Warner Music)...
...Johnny Marr The Messenger (Warner Bros)...
...Mr Son played no part in recent auctions for Warner Music, EMI and EMI’s Parlophone label, and many had thought that the size of Universal, home to The Beatles and Justin Bieber, would put it beyond the...
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