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...Weeks before we meet, Cheng signed a deal to take over the three award-winning Robertson Lodges in New Zealand....
...investigated over ‘personal misconduct’ claim (FT) Indian insurer LIC kicks off record $2.7bn IPO (Nikkei Asia) Singapore deal allows SocGen bankers to flee Hong Kong (FT) Standard Chartered shareholders lodge...
...News round-up Google buys cyber security company Mandiant for $5.4bn (FT + Lex) Russia lodges appeal over Uefa and Fifa bans (FT) US and UK ban Russian oil and gas imports in drive to punish Putin (FT...
...A few, like Casi Hütte in Bosco Gurin, are so high you must take a chair lift and then walk before you reach the front door....
...Foundem — the tiny UK shopping service that was the first to lodge a formal antitrust complaint against Google in Brussels, leading to this week’s record €2.4bn fine against the company — has mothballed...
...What is new is that it now lodges in the White House. This is a radical departure from presidential norms, Republican as well as Democratic....
...$1m A two-bedroom condominium in the town of Ketchum $3m A four-bedroom home near Sun Valley Lodge in the city centre $15m A grand eight-bedroom home on the banks of the Big Wood river, Ketchum More...
...IEX has called on those who back the exchange’s philosophy to lodge official comments in favour of the application. The fracas has included a letter of support from Mr Lewis....
...Within the five acres of grounds, there is a two-bedroom lodge, an all-weather tennis court and a Victorian walled garden, as well as stables, barns, garaging and a private boating lake....
...Five years ago, reporters covering Allen & Co’s annual Sun Valley summit were scrambling around the floor of the lodge where the world’s media and technology leaders gather each July, helping Rupert Murdoch...
...“The race for new nuclear in this country is at serious risk of unravelling,” says Tony Lodge, a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank....
...Some of last year’s tech stars have lost their lustre since they last met at the ski lodge. Facebook, Groupon and Zynga all went public in the last year, only for their shares to fizzle....
...www.nissan-extremegrip.com Zambia A private game lodge that once belonged to Zambia’s former president reopened to the public last week after an 18-month renovation....
Kent Reliance building society is urging its savers to give the go-ahead for a tie-up with JC Flowers
A proposed new bank combining the business of Kent Reliance building society and a £50m investment from JC Flowers, the US private equity group, is to be called OneSavings
...You buy a share of one house but can trade weeks in a variety of places, including a ski lodge in the Rockies, a beach house in the Caribbean, a castle in Italy and a house within a golf club in Ireland....
...It was a point reinforced by several media executives whispering in the hallways in between meetings and at the Lodge bar late into the evening....
...To judge by the relaxed mood in the bar of the Sun Valley Lodge on Tuesday night, the Idaho mountain air may be just the thing to calm the tensions that this saga has aroused recently....
...For her part, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarajane Hoare is currently packing for a mid-June getaway to Shompole Lodge, the luxury safari outpost located on the edge of western Kenya’s Great Rift Valley...
...Synergies of up to £20m could be expected, given Whitbread extracted £12m of savings when it bought Premier Lodge in 2004....
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