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...Any deal with Zuber would be expected to include about 30 remaining UK petrol stations not included in the £2bn Asda deal and certain food locations, a person familiar with the situation said....
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...AXA Millésimes, the insurance company’s wine division, is far lower-key than Bernard Arnault’s vast LVMH empire, but has its own investment in Outpost on Howell Mountain, east of the valley....
...Another critical figure is Sheikh Tahnoon, the UAE’s national security adviser who also oversees a business empire and Abu Dhabi’s biggest sovereign wealth fund....
...Earlier this week, Knight Insurance Group, one of more than a handful of companies that make up Hankey’s financial empire, put up a $175mn bond for Donald Trump, an amount the former president had to post...
...Trump’s legal team said on Monday that the Trump Organization had approached 30 surety companies — including Allianz, Axa, Berkshire Hathaway, Chubb, Munich Re, Swiss Re and Zurich — via four separate brokers...
...Robinson was pushed out in 1993 after heavy losses related to his acquisitions and his empire was quickly dismantled by successors....
...But then he also argued that this is why things are worse, because it has “made brokers less relevant and put downward pressure on margins”....
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...And successive Brexity Tory governments have been busy trying to broker bilateral YMS deals with EU states like Spain, Germany and Sweden....
...We’ve seen significant growth in Peru, we’ve seen it in Colombia, Brazil,” said Paul Hutchinson, chief strategic trading officer at Olam Food Ingredients, one of the world’s biggest soft commodity suppliers...
...This conflict came to a head around the turn of the century, as British governments attempted to reconcile home demands for cheap food and the empire’s production of more expensive raw ingredients, particularly...
...Within Bankman-Fried’s empire, a token issued by FTX, known as FTT, was used by Alameda as collateral for billions of dollars of borrowing....
...It’s a meeting of what will come to be known as the Dubai super cartel — a shadowy criminal network that controls a multi-billion-dollar cocaine empire spanning the globe....
...But in recent months, one insider said, money had been flowing from all arms of the Signa empire back towards Signa Holding....
...In return for Hamas’s releasing the captives, Israel would let out Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and allow more aid into the besieged strip, which is enduring chronic food shortages....
...He handed the reins of his retail empire to his son-in-law, Michael Murray, in 2022. Ashley, the former owner of Newcastle United Football Club, is among the City’s most colourful characters....
...As a result of the war in Ukraine, Alexander Gabuev rightly notes that Russia is losing its ability to play the role of regional power broker (“Nagorno-Karabakh shows Russia has lost control of...
...Since then, Palestinian police have refused to guard the convoys, though Egypt has sought to broker an agreement from Israel that its forces will not target police....
...The World Food Programme said on Tuesday it was suspending aid deliveries to northern Gaza after hungry crowds descended on its trucks, which also faced gunfire....
...The statistics agency said it also affected food sales....
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