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...The businessman is the youngest son of the late Onsi Sawiris, who founded a construction company in the 1950s and built it over decades into a large multinational corporation now called Orascom Construction...
...“He said to me, ‘Oh God, we have this bank to run, and I have this construction project here and this project there and it’s all too much for me.’...
...The PMIs’ trajectories might look v-shaped. But in terms of convincing us that we’re in the throes of a v-shaped recovery, they do anything but....
...Simon King, chief investment officer at Vermeer, describes these opportunities as plays on “reopening trade”, and includes industrial stocks as well as construction and infrastructure companies....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic.”...
...David Williamson, the company’s chief technology officer, says the company is motivated as much by quality as sustainability: he wants to make a version of leather without the irregularities that come with...
...And, finally, support services and construction group Interserve has warned that 2 will become 1 – on its bottom line....
...the V&A’s courtyard....
...The property, which measures about 5,000 sq ft, is owned by David Geffen, the record and film company founder....
...As chief executive Andrew Jones has pointed out, clicks are replacing bricks as consumers do more of their shopping online without leaving the front room....
...At best, UK construction is likely to have raised considerably raised construction labour costs and necessitate a change in the business model....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect inflation to rise to a little below 3% in mid-2017....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect growth in the UK to slow from 2.0% in 2016 to 0.8% in 2017....
...Some slightly broader weakness has applied in the construction sector since the referendum — and construction output fell by around 1% in Q3....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Michael Boyd, artistic director, Royal Shakespeare Company. Kenneth Branagh, actor. Malcolm Bruce, MP. Clive Callman, judge. Tony Cunningham, MP. Charles Dunstone, chairman, Carphone Warehouse....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Plant hunters Sue and Bleddyn Wynn-Jones of Crûg Farm Plants are modern-day plant hunters who specialise in rare plant species....
...Stephen Jones, milliner. Nigel Kershaw, chairman, The Big Issue. Simon King, TV wildlife presenter. Anthony Langford, of John Smedley, the knitwear company....
...Aydin Kurt-Elli, founder of internet service provider Lumison, and Andrew Fishwick, co-founder of The Fish Partnership, a West End theatre production company, both hired their fathers to tap into their...
...Her own-brand Construction wallpapers depict cranes, bridges, pavements and New York traffic lights....
...Darwin’s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England By Steve Jones Little, Brown, £20 Jones, genetics professor at University College, London, draws out the rich material in Darwin’s lesser-known natural...
...That restriction, says V....
...V Garnett (Arctic Systems Ltd).”...
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