Hints and tips:
...Back in the Diamantclub, Wainwright meets Nick Crouch, Boodles’s secret weapon — or “rough diamond valuator and technical specialist”....
...For their Strangler ring, a wriggling organic line of diamonds appears to be growing through the concrete, a study in atrophy and a reference to the urban environment of Mumbai, where they live and work....
...Joan Girona, a senior researcher and irrigation specialist at Irta, had stopped watering them in May....
...“I cleaned the old weapons myself, sorted out the bulletproof vests myself and found specialists who could help me with this....
...Perhaps one could start a specialist travel agency for such places, Dystopian Tours Inc, which would specialise in Graham Greene-style third world disaster areas....
...It features: avant-garde jewellery by Fabio Salini, who sets precious gems into carbon fibre; a diamond-set concrete ring by Studio Renn; and historic pieces by Modernist artists and designers such as Alexander...
...He rushed up to Barclays’ corporate box, knocked on the door and asked Diamond to come out for a chat. Diamond agreed, and the two went for a walk....
...This week we spoke to Jeppe Rindom, founder of corporate card specialists Pleo. When were you founded? Pleo was founded in Copenhagen in 2015. Where are you based?...
...The previous year it sold a book of life insurance business to a consortium led by Bob Diamond’s Atlas Merchant Capital....
...He is referring to a sumptuously soft, shawl-collar cashmere and merino sweater with diamond and ropey patterns snaking through it....
...ION Media, which is owned by Black Diamond Capital Management, a credit specialist, is known for airing popular crime television shows such as Law & Order and CSI....
...The acquisition provides concrete evidence that international investors were deterred from pursuing UK targets by Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s promise to nationalise large parts of Britain’s privately...
...Patti Wong, chairman of Sotheby’s Asia and Sotheby’s Diamonds, is more than conscious that Hong Kong is a tough place to do business right now....
...Siberia, a book of Michael Turek’s photographs of the region, will be published by Damiani in March More Siberian adventures Mammoths and diamonds in Yakutia Among numerous Siberian itineraries, specialist...
...“It needs to be continuously communicated to the west that it is a similar trade to that of blood diamonds,” said Monica Hanna, an Egyptian Egyptologist....
...These collaborations resulted in such mid-century classics as Bertoia’s radically transparent, lightweight wire-mesh Diamond chair of 1952 and Eero Saarinen’s 1958 Pedestal tables and Tulip chairs, whose...
...In December last year it sold a $100bn book of life insurance business called Talcott to Atlas Merchant Capital, Bob Diamond’s investment vehicle, for $2bn....
...Auction houses still have specialist heads for watches and for jewellery, but now they are tending to unite the departments as a luxury business proposition under one director....
...This unloved rectangular slab of red brick and concrete reflects the austerity of late-1950s Britain....
...Nathan Grey, product development specialist at the US outdoor brand Filson, says the recent spike in hiking has been fuelled by our desire to disconnect from the “concrete jungle”....
...That deal — between retirement specialist Voya Financial, the private equity group Apollo Global, and the insurance roll-up Athene Holding — was a genuine win/win/win, and it explains why asset managers...
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...The US has repeatedly said it will not loosen sanctions on North Korea until the country takes concrete steps toward denuclearisation....
...Olaf Swantee, chief executive of Sunrise, said that specialist companies are better at dealing with “concrete and steel” assets....
...And do we have concrete goals based on these priorities. Are we measuring on [a] regular basis? Do we have . . . motivated staff?...
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