Hints and tips:
...Aldi, Système U did not reply to requests to comment....
...A sale of a business park owned by THG boss Matthew Moulding, which also houses the ecommerce group’s headquarters, has fallen through....
...Elliot said many companies had paused real estate decisions in the past three years, waiting to assess post-pandemic working habits....
...The three pro-European groups — the EPP, Socialists and Liberals — should muster about 400 seats, according to a Europe Elects poll of polls....
...Most big western oil groups are members of the partnership. Exxon’s decision to join leaves Chevron as the only western supermajor outside the group....
...Tony Kent’s The Shadow Network (Elliot & Thompson, £16.99) is the latest outing for his team of Joe Dempsey and Michael Devlin....
...It marks a huge U-turn for Johnson, who had previously voted repeatedly against Ukraine aid, and for months used his power as Speaker to block a vote on new support....
...The changes have also provoked unrest among the retailer’s workers and suppliers, anxious about job cuts and the potential closure of the group’s headquarters in Saint-Etienne should the group be dismantled...
...The group’s bumper profits last year compare with $700mn of net income for 2022 and $1.1bn in 2021....
...In March, he made a rare publicised trip to Hangzhou, where Alibaba has its headquarters. This was just before the group announced the ambitious restructuring programme....
...Before the summit, about 35 executives had attended a separate breakfast event with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer at EY’s London headquarters....
...“One of the most humiliating U-turns the City has ever seen.” “This whole thing has been bungled from start to finish,” said another....
...Finally, it’s a moment to toast the fact that Manolo Blahnik Group is in rude health....
...During a visit to Washington late that year, Deng Xiaoping secretly visited CIA headquarters late at night and discussed a clandestine facility that the US later set up in western China to spy on the Soviet...
...A year later, there were more mainland Chinese companies with headquarters in the city than US groups for the first time in more than 30 years....
...It resumed quarantine-free travel with the rest of the world only late last year and did not reopen its borders with mainland China until February, after Beijing’s abrupt U-turn on Covid curbs....
...Quintessentially, a concierge company run by the co-chairman of the UK’s Conservative party, created the website of an international escort agency called Le Besoin and registered it to its London headquarters...
...The US will establish a permanent headquarters for its 5th Army Corps in Poland, send 5,000 additional troops to Romania and increase rotational deployments in the Baltic states, Biden said, as part of efforts...
...It is the second intervention by the security services against Chinese suppliers, following the government’s surprise U-turn last summer banning the use of Huawei kit in 5G telecoms networks....
...The U-turn dominated headlines, stirring anger from environmentalists and adding more fuel to calls for windfall taxes....
...SoftBank the seller SoftBank Group is hungry for cash....
...Shopify proposes 10-for-one share splitCanadian ecommerce company Shopify is the latest tech group to announce a stock split, following Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla....
...He said this donation was not designed to enlist Elliot in his dispute with Leslie but was due as the annual price of Leaders Group membership. “Elliot knew nothing about this,” Amersi said....
...Farmers, as you say, are an obvious group here....
...“I wouldn’t call it a U-turn, more of a hard left [turn],” he said at the time....
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