Hints and tips:
...HPS has already invested more than a third of the $17bn it plans to put to work, including loans to wireless provider Consumer Cellular and Authentic Brands, the company behind Brooks Brothers and Reebok...
...In India, for example, thousands of local stores have generated their own versions of ads featuring Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan urging people to shop locally in a campaign for Cadbury by WPP....
...More than 170 interested parties made contact but predictions of bids from Big Tech failed to materialise....
...Clients often customise their wine-cabinet door “so it fits with their home bar”, says Tim Lewis of Sorrell Cellars, which creates bespoke wine storage for A-listers and five-star hotels....
...That’s looking like a real possibility, with Brooks Koepka, a LIV rebel and former world number one, leading the charge into the weekend....
...The reliquary brooks no scepticism....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...more than it taxes....
...(FT) What we’re reading Martin Sorrell’s downfall: why the ad king left WPP The FT has interviewed more than 25 people who worked closely with the former boss of the world’s largest marketing and communications...
...Vevo’s advertising sales grew 30 per cent last year as marketers flocked to slickly produced pop star videos, which draw views in the billions....
...Salman v United States lacks the Wall Street stars that made trading on insider information a defining feature of the 1980s....
...That he’s highlighting a poll showing him garnering barely more than one-third of voters – and his opponent winning barely more than that dismal figure – tells you a lot about this race....
...Although PLDT chairman Manuel V....
...Parents trembling at the thought of immersion in the world of Frozen should remember that it could be worse: the owners of Star Wars might be plotting the return of Jar Jar Binks....
...That bottle of ketchup; that tin of tomatoes; that pepper mill — could they have star potential? They certainly could in the hands of Tim Etchells....
...The rising star is just one of several key figures to have left the company since the owner’s return....
...Freemium v paid: Streaming competition swells YouTube is one of several Spotify competitors bringing streaming services to the market this year....
...Denim has had its moments in the fashion spotlight before: from Gloria Vanderbilt’s designer blue jeans of the 1970s and Brook Shields’ Calvins in the 1980s to Tom Ford’s feather-embellished denim for Gucci...
...At the same time, his studio enjoys the same credibility in the design world as the star architects who wear what comes out of it....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Related links: SEC V. TREVOR G. COOK, PATRICK J. KILEY, ET AL, Case No. 09 CV 3333 – SEC Litigation release...
...Mine were Richard Burton, that fruitcake voice not yet heavily brandied, as Henry V at the Old Vic in the late 1950s; John Kane’s Puck sitting spotlit on the swing in Brook’s life-altering A Midsummer Night...
...“But he becomes much more interested in the conflicts in here,” he points to his heart, “than those out there.” Henry V, he says, “is a great, complex, fragmented, modern character....
...The tale of the former Gizmondo director and the crashed Ferrari gets ever more complicated, writes Clay Harris ....
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