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...It could also help raise standards: in recent years auditors have missed serious financial problems that have caused the collapse of businesses including outsourcer Carillion, retailer BHS and café chain...
...She “took the soul of all that” back to Hong Kong, recreating an outpost of the Café Carlyle, nightly jazz and all. It still, she says, has a waiting list for membership in the hundreds....
...Last month, TRG offloaded its Frankie and Benny’s and Chiquito chains to Cafe Rouge owner Big Table group, saying it would pay its rival £7.5mn to take the lossmaking businesses, along with around £50mn...
...The attached Bel Café is a lovely little spot for a takeaway coffee and a pastry, while Reflections, the hotel’s fourth-floor alfresco terrace, serves small plates and craft cocktails alongside a good selection...
...Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...(The Danish bakery chain Ole & Steen, with branches across London, also offers a similar cinnamon sharer, as well as a handful of other delicious cinnamon-infused treats.)...
...Case in point: Elliott’s 2018 victory at hotel and restaurant multinational Whitbread, when the activist used an — albeit uncharacteristic — gentle approach to get its way and spin off the group’s Costa café...
...The devastating drought “has really had a significant impact on the [coffee] crop this year,” said Saxo Bank head of commodity strategy Ole Hansen....
...Blackstone: under the arches A lot of Londoners have a soft spot for the city’s Victorian railway arches, which house everything from hipster cafés to mechanics’ workshops. Blackstone likes them too....
...It is designing cafés with awnings that can protect people from heat or cold (with, yes, more sensors) and underground tunnels through which robots can deliver goods to apartments....
...Ole Matthiessen, head of Deutsche’s cash management business, said that it would help the bank to improve customer satisfaction....
...Café Coffee Day outlets have become popular hang-outs in India, an aspirational nation emerging on the global scene....
...We leave you with this quote from Chloe’s piece: “We support him because he’s Lebanese,” said Elie Ghosn, whose family has run the Ghosn café since 1902 and whose grandfather was the cousin of Carlos Ghosn...
...“We take the matter very seriously, which is why we have initiated very extensive investigations,” said Ole Andersen, chairman of Danske Bank....
...As the owner of a record store opposite the proposed campus site told local media, “a hipster café will always be able to pay more rent”....
...Co-working spaces in Beijing often provide communal kitchens, cafés and even built-in gyms that can be accessed using a mobile wallet....
...I continue to marvel at her hands as we peruse the menu at Spoonfed, a low-key Hollywood café that she’s chosen mainly because it’s in the same building as her office....
...Department stores (-0.6 per cent), cafes, restaurants and takeaways (-0.1 per cent), and clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (-0.1 per cent) also fell....
...There is a terrace below and another at the top for the usual cafés and viewing platforms....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include China Gas, Cafe de Coral, DyDo and Far East Consortium....
...To overcome this, he says, HTC is investing in VR cafés in China — a 2017 version of cyber cafés, where users can play games using VR headsets....
...The Beijing-based, German-born architect Ole Scheeren has designed the centrepiece café for the fair....
...Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank, noted that Commodity Futures Trading Commission data had showed bearish oil bets being cut by 8.4 per cent from a record high in the week to January 21...
...Ole Hansen, head of commodities strategy at Saxo Bank, noted that speculative short bets on Nymex WTI crude jumped 14 per cent as of last Tuesday....
...In the café of a posh Dublin hotel, in a city that still bears the scars of its spectacular property crash, Michael O’Flynn says he feels not so much chastened as vindicated....
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