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...Tiger Global, the technology-focused investment fund that led Cohere’s $125mn series B round last year, is not participating in the current round....
...This gig, with French brothers Anthony and Davy Honnet on Hammond B3 organ and drums, put Benjamin’s sax centre stage. “We gonna have some fun?”...
...The minimum standard is set to rise to a C rating by 2027 and to a B by 2030, a level which around 70 per cent of offices in the capital fall short of, according to Savills....
...Working on a plan B, government officials, regulators, UK Finance and executives at the state-owned British Business Bank focused on ways to provide a lifeline to companies, through state loan guarantees...
...“The United States doesn’t know Lai as well as we knew Tsai when she ran for president because he hasn’t been in any notable national positions before premier and VP,” said Bonnie Glaser, managing director...
...But with 85 per cent of offices in UK cities currently rated below a B, it also represents a substantial hurdle for landlords to clear....
...In a note to clients last week, Ryan Hammond’s team at Goldman Sachs wrote that the difference between adjusted and unadjusted earnings is far larger in software than in any other sector....
...It opens with classical cadences, layers the leader’s Hammond organ and piano, and then spins moodily into trumpet-led R&B....
...On my tour, I learnt of the beer’s deep-rooted Scottishness: Bonnie Prince Charlie drank the brewery’s earliest ales, so too did national poet Robert Burns....
...The four experts include Rupert Harrison, George Osborne’s ex-chief of staff, and Karen Ward, who was Philip Hammond’s key economic adviser, in addition to two former members of the Bank of England’s Monetary...
...“If you are sitting on a building that’s below an E rating and you want to get to a B rating, that’s a substantial bit of refurbishment....
...They shouldn’t attempt to edit the past to suggest that David [Cameron] and George [Osborne], Theresa [May] and Philip [Hammond], Boris and Rishi [Sunak] were somehow members of a Marxist cell.”...
...From 2030, ministers have confirmed that any non-domestic rented building will need to achieve an energy performance certificate, or EPC rating, of B or above....
...Additional reporting by George Hammond in London...
...Potential new tenants include discount stores B&M and Home Bargains, as well as fashion brands that have performed better during the pandemic, such as Zara, Mike Ashley’s Fraser Group and JD Sports, which...
...When Woolworths went bust in 2008 its 800 stores, mostly single units on high streets, were taken over relatively quickly by budget retailers such as Poundland, B&M, Home Bargains and Iceland....
...Additional reporting by George Hammond...
...This story has been amended since first publication to correct the name of Microsoft’s research system from Platform B to Station B....
...Same-store sales at the 359 Poundstretcher-branded stores fell almost 6 per cent last year to £359m, implying per-store sales that are less than a quarter of those achieved by listed rival B&M and at much...
...Talent and studio executives have been fighting over pay since before Louis B Mayer. But for a disagreement to become so public is rare....
...Additional reporting by Nicolle Liu in Hong Kong and Sherry Fei Ju in B eijing...
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Eley and George Hammond in London...
...; but ‘What is your plan B?’. If your plan A is undeliverable, not having a plan B is like not having a plan at all.”...
...On the back of its performance, the company proposed “a 30p per share cash return to shareholders through a B Share Scheme”, in addition to an interim dividend of 10p....
...Downing Street said she was approaching the talks in a “constructive spirit” and took care not to close down any plan B options....
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