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...“The only question is when Atos puts in place a plan B.” One person familiar with the talks over the company’s future said “Mustier . . . is not going to take the slightest risk”....
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...The company said it would launch new ecommerce platforms in France and Poland, in the hope of replicating the success of its UK-based B&Q online marketplace....
...Palazzo Passerini is a three-bedroom residence that can be booked on a B&B basis or bought out in exclusivity by a total of six guests....
...There’s quite a lot of feathery pop-soul and R&B, nice enough but too airy to leave an impression....
...Appels, a percussive piece — rainsticks, kettledrums, bells — by French-Mexican new wave R&B artist Andrea Balency-Béarn was followed by Cage Letters, a piano setting of three of John Cage’s love letters...
...The company, which owns B&Q in the UK and Castorama in France, expects pre-tax profit to be £30mn lower than previously forecast for 2023-24, at £560mn....
...The owner of B&Q and Screwfix has sounded the alarm on profits for the second time in just over two months, blaming sluggish sales and warmer weather in France....
...Despite “good growth” in the UK, he said, “we faced . . . a weaker trading environment in Poland, while consumer confidence in France is at a 10-year low”....
...The retailer, which owns the DIY chain B&Q in the UK and Castorama in France, said on Tuesday that pre-tax profits for the year would be £590mn, below a previous target of £634mn....
...Shell and Trinidad’s national gas company signed an agreement to export Venezuelan offshore gas via the Caribbean island, while Spain’s Repsol and France’s Maurel & Prom also inked deals, according to news...
...In Dalton Paula’s intricately layered life-size portraits of unsung Black Brazilian heroes — “Pacifico Licutan”, “Ganga Zumba” (both 2024), gold-leaf heads shimmer like halos, crumpled white impasto disturbs...
...Thankfully, B&Q sells a selection of both tenon saws and rulers....
...In this state, I find myself visiting the Bibliothèque Nationale de France for a presentation by a new skincare brand, Neuraé....
...However, sales in France fell by 6 per cent in constant currency terms, with the market weakening as the year progressed. Retail profits fell by 30 per cent in France and by 47 per cent in Poland....
...Before the incident, Exxon pumped 45,000 barrels a day out of the country; afterwards it dropped to 15,000 b/d....
...Rabadan defended both the parade and the Seine clean-up efforts: “There is no plan B, since pulling off plan A will be complicated enough.”...
...It might apply to FTSE 100 members including IAG, Glencore and B&M (incorporated in Spain, Switzerland and Luxembourg respectively) but is unlikely to apply to Danish-listed Orsted or Getlink of France,...
...The trial began in 2018 with evidence from a suspected drug trafficker, identified by authorities as Nabil B, who became a crown witness in exchange for a reduced sentence of 10 years....
...These delays have meant that Kyiv has started looking at a “Plan B” and even a “Plan C”, Pidlasa said....
...Jura and Savoie in the subalpine east of France are also great hunting grounds but have become too fashionable to be bargains....
...My daughter wants to be the girl, Mabel – but Madame B steals the show for me....
...He merely thought that the Labour chancellor Hugh Dalton’s 2.5 per cent fixed interest gilts were a swindle when inflation was running at more than 4 per cent....
...Franklin centres on the title character’s mission to France in 1776 to secure military support for America’s war against Britain....
...It should work with France to set up proper processing centres across the Channel. Joint efforts are needed with France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany to stamp out trafficking networks....
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