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...Italy, France and Greece are also among the top five destinations for deploying capital this year, according to the 2024 survey of more than 60 investors including hotel owners, developers and private funds...
...These include Meo, the Portuguese operator at the centre of the Pereira corruption case, a stake in French mobile operator SFR and online advertising business Teads, according to people briefed on the process...
...Google and some of Europe’s largest telecoms operators have called on Brussels to designate iMessage as a “core” service that would require Apple to make the chat app fully compatible with rivals....
...STDC chair and Tees Valley mayor Houchen had at one point hoped to buy the port in order to incorporate it into the Teesside freeport....
...And while Drahi may like to think of himself as a shrewd operator when it comes to wringing costs out of mobile and cable businesses, he is better known for his prowess at financial engineering....
...Fees are set by the payment network operators, Mastercard and Visa, as a percentage of each transaction and can be as high as 3 per cent....
...Shurgard, which describes itself as “the largest developer, owner and operator of self-storage facilities in Europe”, said it would pay 1,110p per share in cash to acquire Lok’nStore — a 15.9 per cent premium...
...Ithaca, whose majority owner is Israel’s Delek Group, said the transaction would create the second-biggest independent operator in the UK continental shelf, boosting its production above 100,000 barrels...
...Such a move would unlock immediate gains for any new owners. But it would also leave Macy’s exposed to rising rent payments and limit its ability to reinvest in the core retail business....
...The agreement “dramatically expands the reach of WWE and brings weekly live appointment viewing to Netflix”, said Mark Shapiro, president and chief operating officer of WWE owner TKO....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway averted a courtroom showdown over its purchase of a truck stop operator founded by a Tennessee billionaire, after settling a dispute centred on the value of the business...
...Cargill’s head of ocean transport has called on the shipping industry to give wind power a chance in its efforts to decarbonise, as one of the world’s largest marine freight operators prepares to test the...
...US cinema owners have suffered from an 18 per cent drop in box office returns so far in 2024, and last year’s Hollywood strikes are expected to result in a weaker slate of films and lower ticket sales....
...Cedar Fair shareholders will own 51 per cent of the company with Six Flags owners getting the rest....
...the two hotel operators “were in alignment on core terms” of the deal....
...Former JPMorgan Chase banker Nicolas Aguzin is to leave his role as chief executive of Hong Kong’s stock market operator HKEX at the end of his three-year term....
...CD&R’s other assets include Motor Fuel Group, the UK’s largest independent petrol station operator, and car windscreen repair group Belron....
...VMWare’s existing owners Michael Dell and US technology private equity group Silver Lake stand to get billions in cash from its close....
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...Chick-fil-A is hoping to attract UK franchise partners with what it bills as a “unique” owner-operator model, which requires just $10,000 of investment from the franchisee....
...Some Japanese restaurant owners and seafood importers in Hong Kong are concerned about the ban, according to Simon Wong, president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades....
...Earlier this year, the US Government Accountability Office bellowed that these owner-operators “do not enjoy the full benefit of the risks they bear”....
...The question of what the Virgin name is worth, for example, is the subject of a $250mn dispute in London’s High Court between Sir Richard Branson’s holding company and Brightline, the US train operator which...
...They bought the option from the local operator of the land, RBT Ltd. Musgrave and Corney then proposed a deal involving the former steelworks....
...Job moves Edward Tilly, the chief executive of Chicago-based exchange operator Cboe Global Markets, has resigned after the company said he failed to disclose personal relationships with colleagues....
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