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...Colman Domingo of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom turned up in a three-piece Atelier Versace suit in an eye-popping shade of fuchsia, with crystal embroidery streaming down the jacket....
...“Think of it as a digital puppet,” says DK Kwon, the chief executive and founder of A-fun. “It won’t get old; it won’t do drugs. No scandal.” He leans back in his chair....
...“If you look at India Inc, they are not in an ebullient mood. They are concerned. Alarm bells are ringing. We need to hear them,” Mrs Shaw says....
...Japanese advertising agency Asatsu-DK rose as much as 5.2 per cent on Tuesday following reports that WPP had agreed to sell its stake in the company to Bain Capital clearing the way for the private equity...
...Beyond the Square Mile Bain Capital has completed its takeover of Asatsu-DK via a $1.2bn tender offer....
...Asatsu-DK closed 1.1 per cent higher on Monday at ¥3,170 at share in Tokyo. More soon…...
...Japan’s third-biggest advertising agency Asatsu-DK jumped to a 17-year high on Tuesday after Bain Capital launched a $1.3bn tender offer for the company....
...Bain Capital has completed its takeover of Asatsu-DK via a $1.2bn tender offer....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc....
...The UK-listed giant holds a 24.7 per cent stake in Asatsu-DK (ADK), which has agreed a $1.3bn tender offer with the Boston-based private equity house....
...The UK-listed ad giant holds a 24.7 per cent stake in Asatsu-DK (ADK), which has agreed a $1.3bn tender offer with the Boston-based private equity house....
...For years, foreign private equity groups have been trying to make Japan Inc sweat balance sheets harder....
...WPP has agreed to back down from legal action and sell its stake in Asatsu-DK to Bain Capital, removing the largest obstacle to the US private equity firm’s $1.3bn tender offer for Japan’s third-largest...
...Three names in particular stand out: the advertising group Asatsu DK, the components trader Kuroda Electric and media titan Fuji Media....
...“We don’t actually want 100 per cent automation — hopefully we can offset the impact by shifting more workers into value-added fields, appliqué, embroidery and so on.”...
...In the case of Toshiba, it failed to win the assistance of the once-reliable Japan Inc to rescue the company from its financial crisis....
...Just hours after Bain’s offer was made public, people close to WPP said on Monday night that it did not intend to sell its 24.7 per cent stake in Asatsu-DK (ADK) at the ¥3,660 price offered by Bain, as the...
...A couple of days before unveiling the Coach AW18 collection, the 44-year-old British designer Stuart Vevers walked me through his studio in the vast, newish headquarters of Tapestry (as Coach Inc is now...
...Others had Haring heart and figure embroideries. She also wore a lot of denim. Mainly jeans....
...The company has recently branched out into guided tours for travellers, which range from surf lessons in California to Korean embroidery classes in Seoul....
...A tribute to Gustav Klimt, the Art Deco movement and the African goddess Oshun, the look embraced the adage that less is more, barely held together with its strategic embroideries....
...Even after the DK sale, LVMH remains widely and deliberately diversified across regions and business segments....
...Staff at the workshop in Paris say they even include the correct amount of thread that assemblers in China and elsewhere will use to stitch the garments....
...The venture capitalist, who had enjoyed previous success in areas as wide-ranging as children’s embroidery sets, fresh baked cookies and computer hardware supplies, had sprung to prominence as a pioneer...
...On slips and baby-doll dresses, she suggested coral, sea plants, flotsam and jetsam, fantastic sea creatures and coiling serpents by using embroidery, organza and custom jacquards, Swarovski crystal anemones...
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