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...the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V at the Empire Exhibition...
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...In the case of Porsche AG’s recent IPO, for example, the car brand split Porsche’s share capital into two to allow the Porsche-Piëch families to buy 25 per cent of voting shares....
...McDonald’s, Starbucks and other mighty brands....
...But two prominent potential bidders, private equity groups Bain Capital and CVC Capital Partners, dropped out of the process in its early stages....
...The sprawling empire of arrested fashion criminal Sam Bankman-Fried had a lot more than that, and pumped a lot of money into a lot of companies....
...Bacon, the founder of Moore Capital, initially levelled suits against the retail executive for harming the local environment by overdeveloping his Vegas-esque retreat, which touted “sculptures of roaring...
...Fall of the Roman empire....
...But an ill-fated bet on Anglo Irish Bank just before the 2008 financial crisis sent his empire tumbling down. A tale of sabotage, torture and Irish troubles....
...The board of L Brands had been considering several options ranging from a break-up of its retail empire to the sale of Victoria’s Secret alone, in an effort to revive the fortunes of the group, which has...
...Also, for full conservatism in our model, we now include a ~£310M hit to cash flow for potential payments to Florida, Texas, and Minnesota related to the US brands it purchased from BAT in 2015....
...Jeff Henriksen is the co-founder and CEO of Thorpe Abbotts Capital, a value-oriented hedge fund based out of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School...
...Smart reads Germany Inc The increasing plight of Germany’s corporate sector is no coincidence, writes the FT’s Olaf Storbeck....
...“He received those shares by contributing to the newly formed public company the majority of the assets and continuing operations of his then wholly owned Colony Capital LLC, the investment firm which he...
...Ltd LLC defaults on its debt....
...University of Texas Law School professor Henry Hu makes his case for reforming the CDS market....
...For Starbucks, the sale of the rights to its consumer and foodservice brands — which include Seattle’s Best Coffee and Teavana tea — to Nestlé is aimed at accelerating the brand’s international growth in...
...David Simon, former Baltimore Sun staffer and creator of the HBO series The Wire offered his own perspective on the stats. “This is how a republic dies....
...capital rather than pursuing a “one-sided strategy” of “merely drilling for growth’s sake”, particularly if commodity prices fall....
...Companies such as P&G and Nestlé — alongside peers that have come into the sights of activists, such as Unilever and Mondelez — are easily criticised for their sprawling empires, weighed down by excessive...
...Little of Mr Batista’s Brazilian business empire survived the end of the commodities boom and he went bust in 2014 in a trail of exaggerated promises and extravagant spending....
...Others followed and at New York Fashion Week, in the most commercial of the fashion capitals, the suit was a catwalk staple. Lots of the suits were excellent....
...But, in spite of building this global investment empire, Mr Sternlicht has returned to launching and operating hotels....
...“Bass Pro Shops has every intention of celebrating and growing the Cabela’s brand.”...
...The construction of the Commonwealth Institute was a projection of modernity on to the ruins of empire....
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