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...year a lukewarm welcome....
...Moreover, while Douglas has performed well, it comes to market after a prolonged period of challenges (detailed at length here in MainFT)....
...A completely different world....
...Geoff Dyer’s most recent book is “The Last Days of Roger Federer”, published by Canongate...
...Douglas, which was taken private a decade ago and has since undergone several restructurings, said it was aiming to list in the first quarter....
...Douglas MuellerPacific Grove, CA, US...
...Douglas is named after Scottish entrepreneur John Sharp Douglas, who in 1821 opened a soap factory in Hamburg....
...Europe’s equity markets are at a record high but beneath the surface they are in crisis....
...Outside of a recession, the concentration of gains in just a handful of large technology stocks is another potential obstacle that could scupper the S&P 500’s winning streak....
...A steady stream of well-received announcements propelled the engineering group higher, beginning in February when it launched a strategic review....
...CVC acquired Douglas eight years ago from private equity rival Advent and oversaw a choppy period....
...Sotheby’s will offer the first in a group of Francis Bacon’s visceral portraits of his lover, George Dyer, for between $30mn and $50mn in May, a potential boost to a downbeat art market....
...Take the news that CVC, which owns 85 per cent of beauty retailer Douglas, is set to be a buyer, rather than a seller, in the upcoming IPO....
...The lobby desk is a replica Douglas fir tree trunk, cross-sectioned (and back-lit) to show what it would look like leaving a lumber mill....
...A pair in name only. Douglas FrenchMP for Gloucester 1987-97Poole, Dorset, UK...
...Regarding the letter from the former Conservative MP Douglas French (“In Thatcher’s time, MPs worked much longer hours”, March 25), readers might care to know that all-night sittings took a new departure...
...There are 36 contributors in total, including John Grisham, Celeste Ng and Emma Donoghue, and the collection is edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston....
...A small but infinitely useful discovery, and I hope that, at 81, my remaining packs last as long as I need them. Gina Douglas Parmenter London SW4, UK...
...CVC’s beauty bet that turned ugly After nearly a decade owning German retailer Douglas, the beginning of the end may finally be in sight for CVC....
...“The Budget announcement is a step in the wrong direction,” said Douglas Ross, urging the chancellor to reconsider....
...Douglas W Phillips Rochester, NY, US...
...It was the first time since late October that each index had fallen for two weeks in a row....
...The deal is the latest in a string of mooted transactions in the beauty sector after private equity-owned German beauty retailer Douglas announced earlier this month plans to list in Frankfurt....
...“Since mid-January, we have seen a marked increase in demand,” chief executive Douglas Yearley said in a statement....
...We see Dyer in imperial profile, like a figure on a coin, five o’clock shadow creeping across his cudgel of a chin and one strand of pomaded hair lifting out of place....
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