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...Mickey Mouse meets Sin City sounds like a bad elevator pitch for a film. But it is true. Family-friendly Disney will work with Penn Entertainment on sports betting....
...But a quick look at the wider field in payments shows that valuations of tech unicorns that took the escalator up in recent years are taking the elevator down....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 22. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Tishman has also invested in property technology start-ups and recruited staff from the hospitality industry to lift its buildings’ services and atmosphere....
...Getting to and from the elevators involves following a one-way system, while an open plan office is now divided into cubicles via plexi-glass partitions....
...Advent and Cinven are forced to cater to investors The huge Thyssenkrupp elevators deal has been one to watch ever since Advent and Cinven beat out tough competition to emerge triumphant from the pre-coronavirus...
...Activists Cevian and Elliott have come in and pushed for the most profitable division, elevators, to be split off....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 19. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The $16bn race to buy Thyssenkrupp’s elevator unit may reach its conclusion while the conference is under way....
...Consumers have shifted from the packaged foods that at one point made Kraft a $118bn-market capitalisation behemoth in its industry....
...A broken elevator meant residents on the second floor could not be taken to hospital appointments....
...“If I’m in an elevator [with other bankers], I am thinking about the elevator operator, or thinking of the taxi driver’s name, and where his kids are from,” he says. “I’m not trying to be cute....
...Their brush with TikTok fame came from another such idea, though: Rob corners Isaac in an elevator and slaps him in the face with a tortilla covered in sriracha hot sauce, synchronised to the Village People...
...That is the elevator pitch of tobacco boss André Calantzopoulos. He implores governments not to block the advance of smoke-free products....
...After almost 30 years in the computer and music industries, Apple made its first pitch in the telecommunications market with the iPhone....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The expansion in the pork industry is already causing economic ripples....
...“We’re looking to ‘amenitise’ this building,” Mr Artusa said, deploying the industry’s buzzword du jour. “Millennials want it all.”...
...The Connecticut-based maker of goods ranging from elevators to jet engines said it now forecasts adjusted 2017 earnings per share of $6.58 to $6.63, up from $6.45 to $6.60....
...Together, Rockwell Collins and UTC Aerospace Systems will enhance customer value in a rapidly evolving aerospace industry by making aircraft more intelligent and more connected.”...
...United Technologies, which makes aircraft components and equipment for buildings, has faced difficulties in China, the largest market for its Otis elevator division....
...So you just accept that that comes with the territory when you’re talking about an industry that is so intensely driven by very young people....
...“Jamie has done an outstanding job and the financial services industry is lucky to have his leadership.”...
...Rockwell withdrew from an industry conference last week, fuelling speculation that it remained locked in deal negotiations....
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