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...It was the first European capital to declare a zero waste target. Both tourists and prime property buyers are drawn to Ljubljana’s romantic Old Town, with its fairy tale-like Dragon Bridge....
...Yesterday was not a total nothing-burger. The decision to review the fiduciary duties of pension fund trustees in relation to climate and energy transition risks is significant....
...Weighed by its miscalculation with Viceland, Vice missed its revenue targets by $100mn in 2017....
...That’s the target of Valuable 500’s “Gen V” mentoring scheme, which pairs a senior executive with a young disabled employee....
...Daveu has put sustainability at the heart of the Kering growth strategy and is sharing her ambitious targets, as well as progress against them and learnings so far....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...already reached about 40 per cent of its target for the financial year....
...Deflated valuations have made fintech targets more enticing as large corporations seek to transform digitally, with strategies akin to Lloyds’ £1bn digitisation plan....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...Sriram, a high-octane 36-year-old of Indian descent, said she was stirred by the world’s first lab-grown burger patty in 2013....
...The burger group did not take sides, he said, but would speak out “where our voice can be helpful and where it goes squarely with either our business interest or the values that we stand for”....
...(FT, WSJ) Earnings round-up US retailers Target, Khol’s and Nordstrom all release earnings today....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...He revealed that WikiLeaks was planning to target financial institutions along with corporate tax evasion, a key target of UK Uncut....
...“This case, if successful, could fundamentally alter the way national governments and corporations approach climate-related financial disclosures,” he said....
...The chairman of Indian Oil Corporation, the country’s biggest refiner, predicted demand would begin to rebound only by year-end as the coronavirus pandemic hits one of the world’s largest energy markets....
...There will be no fast, perfect, V-shaped recovery for economies given the substantial areas that remain damaged....
...Chart of the day Morgan Stanley has published a report on “the future of food” that says alternative protein foods, such as Beyond Meat burgers, reduce carbon emissions from food production....
...The Brazilian-US investment group behind Kraft Heinz and Burger King is currently sitting on about $10bn and seeking a target to buy. Read more....
...On Tuesday shares in the targets, large French companies such as LVMH, Kering and Hermès, barely dipped. Kering produces the vast majority of its goods in Italy, not France....
...When Carney spoke six weeks ago, many policymakers were still confident of a sharp v-shaped recovery....
...Beyond Meat is looking to start production in China next year, while Impossible Foods is exploring potential partnerships with government bodies and corporations....
...We rate Cineworld Underweight with a 60p price target....
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
...The pair's first target: ecommerce, where rivals Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart dominate. (FT) Is AI the future of call centres?...
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