Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...past month, the highly popular short-video sharing platform has dominated nearly all my personal and work conversations, whether it’s at brunch with friends in Big Sur or afternoon coffee with a VC near Sand...
...Up until Tuesday, when Las Vegas Sands issued a regulatory filing stating that Miriam Adelson intended to sell $2bn in company stock for the purpose of buying a professional sports franchise, the family...
...Sales of sand and gravel extracted in the US for industrial purposes rose 78 per cent in value last year, well above the 30 per cent rise in volumes, according to the US survey....
...Lines in the sand Academics at the University of Pennsylvania have expressed concerns that a campaign by private equity boss Marc Rowan on antisemitism is threatening the school’s independence, the FT reports...
...The unsolicited offer for Total’s Canadian oil exploration and production business includes the company’s stakes in two main oil sands projects with a combined production share of 135,000 barrels of bitumen...
...Earlier this year I joined him as he finally made it there, on a reconnaissance trip for his eponymous travel company....
...For the Italian artist Annie Ratti, it lends a calming atmosphere to her London home and studio, renovated by design and research company Material Cultures....
...Ineos started decommissioning its 40-year-old nitriles plant in Seal Sands, Teesside, in 2021, after announcing plans to close it in 2019....
...Travel is a consistent theme: Royal Caribbean, Delta, American Airlines, and two casinos (MGM and Las Vegas Sands) are all in the top 10. Business travel is back....
...Both companies are trying to cope with labour shortages and increasing material costs for everything from steel to sand....
...Corporate dealmaking hit an all-time high of $1.5tn in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv, the fourth straight quarter above $1tn, as companies and private equity firms begin to spend cash hoarded...
...Additional reporting by Lauren Fedor Letter in response to this article: Ryder Cup is one winner from the Saudi golf merger / From Dick Sands, London TW8, UK...
...April 30, 2021: Dapper Labs, Inc., the company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain, today announced US$250M in new funding. Led by Coatue . . ....
...Lorries laden with sand and gravel speed down highways, pick-up trucks haul trailers carrying shining new diggers and SUVs cart diesel engines and coils of piping....
...Operational issues and accidents have caused the company to miss production targets. The group is the worst-performing large Canadian oil sands producer over the past 12 months....
...Taiwan imported 5.7mn metric tons of sand and gravel in 2020, with more than 90 per cent coming from China. Natural sand made up 8 per cent of the total, according to government statistics....
...The price of aggregates — which includes sand, gravel and concrete — surged 63.2 per cent in the year to July, while the cost of concrete reinforcing bars rose 37.8 per cent....
...That night, our last, Soulimane made taguella, a traditional Tuareg bread, baked in the sand beneath a bed of embers....
...Wong opens her Hong Kong-based business with Daryl Wickstrom, another Sotheby’s long-timer in Asia who left the company in 2016....
...Canadian companies have taken a growing share of oil sands investments as western energy majors have started to turn their backs on a region often associated with higher levels of pollution than conventional...
...“Instead they choose to bury their heads in the sand and stick with a technology that has been around for over 50 years rather than adapt with the times.”...
...Oil sands companies had fallen out of favour when crude prices were lower and investors focused on the environmental impact of their operations....
...After college, Villar quit an accounting job to become a full-time entrepreneur, supplying seafood to restaurants as well as selling gravel and sand, which introduced him to real estate, the sector that...
...We wheel our bikes on to the golden beaches at Camber Sands, where we have an ice cream and a chilly dip....
...That’s code for the company is unable to meet its obligations....
International Edition