Hints and tips:
...Martin Kelly, senior Middle East analyst at EOS Risk Group, a maritime security practice, said the Houthis used “a number of open sources” to determine whether a vessel was connected to countries or entities...
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...But the question we raised is does franchising success ultimately rely on two of America’s most acute pathologies: excessive leverage and exploiting cheap labour?...
...Hermes EOS, the advisory group owned by Hermes Investment Management, also expressed support for the GRI standard, which is the first time the GRI has focused on tax....
...Institutional Shareholder Services, Glass Lewis and Hermes EOS, advisers whose recommendations are widely followed by investors at AGMs, urged shareholders to vote against the re-election of the chairman...
...Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt, co-head of Hermes EOS said the appointment would be against best practice: While we recognise the significant contribution that Michael Dobson has made in his tenure as CEO, we are...
...Also joining is Emma Hunt, as strategic client management and business development director for Hermes EOS....
...private equity firm and Accor shareholder, had been pressing the group to go faster in its embrace of an asset-lite model, in which hoteliers sell off properties and concentrate on their management and franchising...
...The company acknowledges that if its new investments are not getting results within a year to 18 months, it will look to joint ventures, re-franchising of bottlers or even disposals....
...The EO group helped Kosmos secure control in 2004 of the offshore block that yielded one of Africa’s largest recent discoveries....
...The US Department of Justice dropped a corruption probe into Kosmos and EO earlier this year. Both Kosmos and EO have denied any wrongdoing....
...Both Kosmos and EO deny any wrongdoing. Kosmos was advised on the failed talks with Exxon by Barclays and Standard Chartered....
...Kosmos and EO denied any wrongdoing and said the terms of their agreement in 2004 reflected Ghana’s position at the time as a relative backwater in terms of exploration....
...Another bone of contention has been the link between Kosmos and EO, a small company founded by two allies of former president John Kufuor, whose equity in the oilfield is financed by the Texan company....
...EO, whose stake could be worth more than $200m, initiated the deal which brought Kosmos into Ghana three years earlier....
...The tools activists use may change and new models of activism – including more agencies such as EOS with activist remits – will emerge, says Mr Pitt-Watson....
...But he also cautioned that the “defeat” in Texas did not mean the end of state-wide franchising....
...London & Boston Investments climbed 46 per cent to 7.12p, as it announced plans to float its private property search subsidiary PSG (Franchising) at £15 to £18m....
...The group has been selling hotels for several months as it moves to a business model based on hotel management and franchising rather than asset ownership....
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