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...Whereas the Reclina Rocker had pipe-smoking crooner Bing Crosby as its representative, the actress Kristen Bell is the current face of the brand....
...They are represented jointly by Kasowitz Benson Torres and Todd Higgins of Crosby & Higgins. Shearman & Sterling is acting for the defendants. Additional reporting by Nobuko Juji in Tokyo...
...impacted by significant hurricane activity, we are so fortunate that our staff members are safe and our restaurants did not sustain any significant damage from the storms,” chief executive and chairman David Overton...
...David Overton, chairman and chief executive, said that the company “continued to overperform” the sector in the quarter to date, with more than half of regions generating positive comparable-sales growth...
...Nevertheless, Mr Overton said on Tuesday that he believed the company’s brand was “as strong as ever”....
...The view was echoed by Quincy Crosby, strategist at Prudential Financial, who noted that wages would need to pick up at a faster clip to cement the odds of a rate rise....
...Njideka Akunyili Crosby drew more than 10 bidders for her acrylic and coloured pencil work “Drown”, setting a new record for the Nigerian-born artist at $900,000 before premiums....
...I'm sure some on Theresa May's team, some at Lynton Crosby who was the strategist running the campaign, some at Conservative HQ....
...De Vera, 1 Crosby St (+1212-625 0838; www.deveraobjects.com). Double Knot, 13 White St (+212-966 9113; www.double-knot.com). If, 94 Grand St (+1212-334 4964; www.ifsohonewyork.com)....
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...Canary Wharf Group recently sold a property close to the former Lehman building – 50 Bank Street – for £153m to Hong Kong investor Vivien Chen’s firm Crosby Investment Holdings....
...The influence of Crosby Textor’s clients, who have in the past included Philip Morris, the tobacco company, has previously come under scrutiny when questions were raised about whether Mr Crosby had encouraged...
...The buyer is Crosby Investment Holdings Inc, which is wholly owned by Vivien Chen, who has run the Nan Fung group, a diversified Hong Kong conglomerate, since 2009....
...They will include Mr Crosby, an Australian pollster whose firm Crosby Textor has advised the tobacco, alcohol, property development, airport and oil industries....
...No 10 refused to say yesterday when this document was drawn up, saying only it reflected “what was agreed at the time” of Mr Crosby’s appointment last November....
...Warwickshire-based Melrose Industries gave investors a £595m windfall after a year during which it sold businesses including Crosby, a maker of lifting systems, and the Italian electrical motor company Marelli...
...He’s said in the House of Commons he’s not talked to Lynton Crosby about tobacco.”...
...They will include Mr Crosby, an Australian pollster whose firm, Crosby Textor, has advised the tobacco, alcohol, property development, airport and oil industries....
...He said he had taken the decision himself at his kitchen table but did not say he had not spoken to Mr Crosby, who has links to the tobacco industry, about it....
...close to £30bn, according to people familiar with the report… According to people familiar with the parliamentary investigation, Lord Stevenson, chairman of the bank from its creation up to 2008, Sir James Crosby...
...The decision prompted questions about the role of Conservative party adviser Lynton Crosby, whose consultancy had advised the tobacco industry in Australia on ways to fight off similar regulations....
...(FastFT) Dish again under fire over LightSquared bid: “Shareholders suing the satellite-television company over its handling of an offer for LightSquared Inc. argue that two directors appointed by Dish...
...(Wall Street Journal) FURTHER FURTHER READING - Crosby to give up knighthood. - Trade vs technology, labour market effects. - America’s most profitable export is cash....
...To put Mr Redstone’s endurance into perspective, consider this: he was born before Hollywood began making talking pictures or Bing Crosby cut his first record....
...Former chairman Lord Stevenson and ex-chief executives Andrew Hornby and Sir James Crosby should now receive some public criticism....
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