Hints and tips:
...The Betts brothers are ninth-generation gold-bullion dealers whose family business was established in 1760. “I’m an accidental miner, though,” says Betts....
...And in all this time I have been going on and off for dinner, lunch or breakfast at Fouquet’s, the chicest and oldest brasserie on the Champs Élysées, at the corner of the Avenue George V....
...The George V, run by Four Seasons, has regularly been voted among the world’s best hotels....
...Jean-Paul Belmondo, the veteran French film actor, was sitting at a table not far from us at Marius et Jeanette, a smart fish restaurant at the bottom of the Avenue George V, with his little Yorkie and immediately...
...One of Europe’s leading shipping companies – V.Ships, which manages about 1,000 vessels – has set up a subsidiary called V.Navy. One of its challenges is to make merchant shipping safer....
...Already, Mr Patel and V. Thulasidas, Air India’s chairman, have engineered the airline’s merger with the state-owned domestic carrier Indian Airlines....
...However, it was hardly a classic David v Goliath battle, given that the victor was Citigroup, the US banking giant, which is no stranger to struggles with regulators across the world....
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