Hints and tips:
...“They don’t want to bring prices down so they are doing temporary promotions. It’s most unlike the philosophy of the group.”...
...It spotlights black country artists like Linda Martell, and it has made history maybe too little, too late....
...He says activists can agitate for a change in strategy behind the scenes but if they don’t win, their public focus may be governance....
...Companies, mostly, don’t keep epidemiologists on payroll so it must be tricky for them to know when to drop estimates....
...Its window of ripeness is fleeting — if you don’t pick it in time, it has a tendency to “blet”, or rot, from the inside out. Its juice spoils easily. And its trees grow painfully slowly....
...Computers don’t ask for a raise. They don’t ask for a bonus. It would have been unheard of 10 years ago to do the kind of volume I do with the headcount I have,” he says....
...I don’t know. I’m in it for the long term.”...
...And I don’t particularly like the idea of being stung for a fiver an hour to ‘refuel’ in central London....
...“By and large, my view is for cash that we don’t need, with some level of buffer, we want to give it back,” he said. “We are not hoarders.”...
...If you have a burning idea you want to unleash on the world, don’t wait, go for it. However if you don’t have an idea, don’t force it....
...France’s Pernod Ricard, owner of Martell cognac, has also begun promoting some less expensive brands in China, traditionally an ultra-premium market for cognac....
...“After all, you don’t charge your mobile phone battery in a mobile phone store.”...
...Martell’s oblique approach is signalled in the epigraph, a quotation from Miles Davis: “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”...
...He can still dream of selling the rest of the Lloyds holding to Sid on attractive terms just before the election, but please don’t call it an attempt to bribe the electorate....
...The maker of Chivas Regal whisky, Absolut vodka and Martell cognac also produces Ricard, France’s best-selling spirit....
...“I don’t have a drinks list as I prefer to interact with our guests and build their experience....
...In the 1970s, for example, Charles Martell revived the custom of making Double Gloucester in Gloucestershire using milk from Gloucester cattle....
...“If there is a failure at any point you research why and don’t let it happen again.” At the moment, Teepix employs 15 people and its equipment is in just four golfing resorts, all in Florida....
...“I think that the cat is out of the bag and I don’t think it’s going to be cheap for long.” …………………………………………....
...Now, my middle name happens to be Martell – as far as I know, there is no connection....
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