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...Its sales centre in Santa Monica, nestled among outlets for Louis Vuitton and Tiffany on an open-air plaza, attracts “lots of footfall” from the nearby beach, according to a sales assistant, who asked to...
...The $18bn distressed debt investor Strategic Value Partners seized control of the owner of US retail properties such as Rolling Oaks Mall in Texas and Tippecanoe Plaza in Indiana in a transaction approved...
...Nevertheless, insiders at the bank’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters in New York believed that their Parisian colleague would not defect to an arch-rival....
...Glass Lewis has recommended votes against Mr Dobson and Leonie Schroder at the group’s annual general meeting on May 2 due to her inexperience....
...(NYT) Dangerous by design An investigation by the Wall Street Journal reveals that Amazon is using clothing factories that other retailers have shunned since the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh....
...Mr Dobson told shareholders he had been “satisfied [that Ms Schroder] would make a valid contribution”. He was re-elected, although 5.45 per cent of votes were against him....
...In the decades that followed the Plaza sale, the two men frequently announced deals together, although in the end many of them came to nought....
...His mission was to sell the Plaza Hotel at the corner of Central Park, which his then boss, the Texas oil heir Robert M Bass, had bought as part of a larger deal....
...In 2000, Jordan joined the New York office of Lazard at 30 Rockefeller Plaza where he has remained ever since, using his thick Rolodex to help the boutique investment bank make and sustain ties with the...
...Art Miami One Herald Plaza at NE 14th Street December 5-10 artmiami.com Art Miami moves closer to the action of Biscayne Bay this year, swapping the hipster neighbourhood of Wynwood for a waterfront...
...Mr Dobson’s remuneration has also come under fire....
...Schroders has a big family investor base, which controls 47 per cent of the shares, and is united behind the appointment of Mr Dobson as chairman....
...IHG, whose brands include Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn, pointed to its underlying results, which exclude one-off factors such as asset disposals....
...Sterling at its lowest since the 1985 Plaza accord to weaken the dollar: pic.twitter.com/yDfg7zLnAK— John Authers (@johnauthers) June 24, 2016 From @CreditSuisse earlier this week (jic): pic.twitter.com...
...Mr Dobson previously served as chief executive at Schroders, raising questions about his suitability for the chairmanship....
...A large number of other big shareholders have signalled that they will vote against Mr Dobson’s appointment....
...The Investment Association, which represents the UK asset management industry, has expressed reservations about Mr Dobson’s appointment, too....
...Mr Dobson’s disinclination to leave earlier resulted in heir apparent Peter Harrison acquiring the nickname “the Prince of Wales”....
...Christopher Woodward is director of the Garden Museum in London Photographs: Rob Cardillo; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images; Visions of America, LLC/Alamy...
...The prize for fashion ludicrously must go to Moncler, which staged its skiwear spectacle outside at the Lincoln Plaza last Saturday on the coldest night recorded in the city for 100 years....
...In 1995, under pressure from his lenders, Mr Trump surrendered control of the Plaza Hotel in New York to investors from Singapore and Saudi Arabia, including Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz al-Saud...
...tickets were sold for the match against New England Revolution — at least 15,000 belonged to new season-ticket holders — and, in the hours leading up to the 5pm kick-off, fans began to assemble on Babe Ruth Plaza...
...Last month India’s Supreme Court cited documents valuing the Grosvenor House at $850m (£500m), with the Plaza and Dreams Downtown estimated to be worth $570m and $243m each....
...(Financial Times) Chinese conglomerate Fosun is buying landmark downtown Manhattan office building One Chase Manhattan Plaza from JP Morgan for $725m....
...Mr Romney will be feted at a dinner at the Hyatt Century Plaza in the Century City district of Los Angeles on Tuesday, which is expected to raise more than $1m for the campaign....
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