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...My colleagues Dan McCrum and John Reed unpicked the paper trail to discover that two of Adani Group’s biggest “public” investors are associates of Vinod Adani, brother of the conglomerate’s founder Gautam...
...I’ve been listening to Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, his industrial-noise record from the mid-’70s. You can’t really listen to it as music. It’s just a concept....
...Thatch — made from straw or reed — is one of the few construction materials where a process of repair and renewal is accepted as part of its character....
...When Sculptor, then known as Och-Ziff Capital Management, went public in 2007, it did so using something called an Up-C structure....
...Posco C&C is reviewing its Myanmar arrangements but gave no deadline for a decision. Dividends to MEHL have already been suspended since 2017....
...“We have MA-1 jackets from Vivienne Westwood, Liam Hodges, Calvin Klein, Junior Gaultier, CP Company, Raeburn, Paul Smith, Burberry, Left Hand and even Tommy Nutter for Austin Reed,” says Professor Andrew...
...Fitch has rated the country triple C, meaning debt default was a possibility. Last month Sri Lanka became first Asia-Pacific country in decades to default on its foreign debt....
...The C SEED N1, crafted from aerospace aluminium, folds out from a discrete base that looks like a contemporary sculpture when not in use....
...Fitch has given Laos a sovereign rating of triple C, indicating that “default is a real possibility”, he added. Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Reed Hastings, Netflix’s co-founder, still spoke of his “bullish” confidence in the model, even as he unveiled a second straight quarter of subscriber losses....
...With roofs of rush, reed or palm, they are meant to evoke desert life — a reminder in Brooklyn that in the Middle East, there is nothing unusual about sleeping outside....
...“With all provinces in Vietnam being hit by Covid, the situation is so unprecedentedly uncertain that buyers have to adopt a Plan B or C, including offshoring production to another country,” said Vu Ngoc...
...However, European retailer C&A has taken a different stance, telling its suppliers that “we are at this point — unless we see significant improvements within the country — not placing any new orders”....
...Posco C&C, a majority-owned subsidiary of South Korea’s biggest steelmaker, said it would end its partnership with Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited, a group controlled by the junta....
...With today’s operational plants due to be retired by 2035, however, and only one replacement being built at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, ministers cannot afford to delay the go-ahead and financing decisions...
Coup against Aung San Suu Kyi’s government puts country back on perilous path
...Clothing chains H&M, C&A and Inditex said they would suspend orders from Myanmar....
...And Martin Gilbert, the Aberdeen Asset Management founder who now chairs fintech Revolut, disclosed a new sideline in C-suite IT consultancy: “Judging by the number of emails I get saying “Can you help me...
...presided over by Dhanin Chearavanont; Central Group, the giant retailer controlled by the billionaire Chirathivat family; and TCC Group, whose chairman Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi controls ThaiBev and the Big C...
...The company is the largest foreign-owned retailer in Vietnam, via its Big C hypermarket chain. In Europe, Central’s properties include Berlin’s KaDeWe department store and Italy’s Rinascente chain....
...Traditional asset managers including T Rowe Price and Waddell & Reed also have excess capital, while both Amundi and Schroders have already demonstrated their appetite for deals....
...TCC could face a regulatory challenge as its Big C chain operates hypermarkets — the same segment as Tesco Lotus....
...Aswin Techajareonvikul, chief executive of the TCC unit that owns the Big C hypermarket chain, last month confirmed the group’s interest in Tesco, saying it was studying the price and the competition and...
...TCC, owned by the family behind brewing giant ThaiBev, owns Big C, the hypermarket chain. Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...“What about vitamin C? What about sea moss [a type of red seaweed made popular by celebrity Kim Kardashian]?” he asks Fitzpatrick....
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