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...They are starting to understand that furniture can be a life-long investment.”...
...At online education start-up Unacademy, which soared to a $3.4bn valuation, 1,000 people have lost their jobs, while 200 have gone from Fulenco, a furniture rental start-up....
...“Investors have probably drunk a bit more of the Kool Aid with WeWork,” says James Hanbury, portfolio manager at Brook Asset Management, in this deep dive into investors’ starkly differing views of rival...
...He now does bespoke work that includes gilding inlays on furniture – or anything the client may want....
...There may be a few self-consciously quirky touches (because the short-term rental design guides tell hosts that people like quirky touches, within reason)....
...Tim Brooks, vice-president responsible for sustainability, said the world’s biggest toymaker was “totally open” to the idea of a product rental scheme....
...service (2010) UberX — the lower-cost ride-sharing model that created a multibillion-dollar company (2012) Uber Pool — shared commutes and carpooling (2014) Jump — “dockless” electric bike and scooter rentals...
...Simon Usborne was a guest of Wildlife Adventures Disappointment: car rental collection The Eurostar to Paris had been a joy — and almost faster than the time it took to pick up a rental car in the basement...
...“When we talk about rental prices for a month, people think we mean the week,” she says....
...CEO Luo Jun said on Tuesday that following the separation of the online and offline departments, Tujia’s online platform had raised investment from China Renaissance’s Huaxing Growth Capital fund, Glade Brook...
...Instead, it was bought in 1958 by Brooks’s grandfather Harry, who came from Manchester and owned a chain of furniture shops. The estate is now owned by his son Randle and his wife....
...Instead, the furniture tends to be spartan and everyone works on laptops....
...New York, Berlin and Paris have made similar crackdowns on short-term rentals....
...Hertz, the car rental company, saw half its market value disappear at one point on Tuesday after it reported third-quarter earnings late Monday night that fell well short of Wall Street estimates, leading...
...It is just about the only piece of furniture in the elegantly minimalist sitting room....
...Photographs: WeLive; Johnny Wolf; The Collective; Mekko Harjo; Monadnock Construction Inc...
...Leah Busque has set herself a task as difficult as any of the morning-after clean-ups, deliveries to seventh-floor apartments and furniture assembly requests that get posted on TaskRabbit, the online marketplace...
...It is not as detailed as something like Zillow or Rightmove but it makes flicking through sales and rentals much faster....
...The new service, introduced only two weeks ago, has already led to businesses as varied as a furniture store in Georgia and a vacation rental service in Croatia taking Getty pictures to decorate their sites...
...On the uppermost floor, the style is understated: five rooms with raw-edged linen drapes, exposed rafters, Indian bedspreads and Lefroy Brooks nickel-accented bathrooms....
...home rental companies of breaking laws....
...Whether buying or renting, each new household is tied to spending on items such as furniture, electronics and other consumer staples....
...Earlier this summer, for example, researchers at Stony Brook University in Long Island announced that they had invented a new bedbug “trap”. Sprays and other chemical treatments are being developed....
...Companies like Ikea, the Swedish flat-pack furniture maker, and western apparel groups such as Hennes & Mauritz are gradually moving to set up shop....
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