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...Mars’s bet on petcare stemmed from a mission that dates back to Forrest Mars Sr’s assertion in 1947 that a company’s purpose was to generate “a mutuality of benefits” for its employees, suppliers, distributors...
...Matt Vella, FT Weekend Magazine Editor Even in a year marked by outstanding foreign reporting, George Packer’s Atlantic piece The Betrayal from January stuck with me....
...The Mars credo, that it should provide a “mutuality of benefits” to consumers, distributors, employees, shareholders and others, was laid down in 1947 by Forrest Mars Sr, the son of Frank and inventor of...
...In London, the V&A is undertaking the restoration of an interior by the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)....
...Gino Santin & Laura Santtini What unites Tom Cruise, Lady Thatcher, Frank Sinatra and Dominic Cummings?...
...Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...The Mars chairmanship rotates around the branches of the family tree, and Mr Badger (son of Jackie, grandson of Forrest Sr, great-grandson of founder Frank) is near the end of his second three-year tour....
...Frank was working for the bandleader Tommy Dorsey when their first child, Nancy Jr, was born in 1940. By the time a son, Frank Jr, followed in 1944, Frank was a star in his own right....
...Who Knight Frank, tel +44 7979 530 430 Giudecca, Venice, Veneto, Italy, €5.5m Where On Giudecca, an island just south of the centre of Venice....
...2010 and 1.3% cuts at SR 2015....
...McVean Trading will pay a penalty of $1.5m while its chief executive, Charles Dow McVean Sr, has agreed to a $2m penalty....
...The precursor of the company was started by the Fertitta brothers’ father, Frank, Sr., a former Vegas blackjack dealer....
...Otis was set for a bright future. He played with Frank Zappa, won praise from BB King as the bluesman’s favourite new guitarist and was invited to join the Rolling Stones....
...During Atlético matches, your eyes are easily drawn to the tense upright figure on the touchline dressed head to toe in formal black, like a nightclub owner or the devil in a Frank Zappa song....
...Other trades by Mr Hixon were allegedly made in the account of his father, Frank Hixon, Sr....
...secretary Frank Carlucci and former British prime minister John Major, is far less visible today than in the past....
...Both would abolish the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill, which aimed to curb the financial excesses that helped create such large unemployment....
...Frank Bennack, chief executive, recalls a 1980s discussion about the shifts taking place in media as the company prepared to enter the cable television business in partnership with ABC, the US broadcaster...
...Some of his stances are questionable – abolishing “Obamacare” and scrapping the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform offer cures worse than the disease. But these flaws he shares with his rivals....
...“If you want to put people in jail, you ought to start with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd,” he said, pointing to Mr Dodd’s tight relationship with the lender Countrywide and Mr Frank’s ties with Fannie Mae...
...Bill Gates Sr, father of Bill Gates Jr, the founder of Microsoft, led a campaign to approve a ballot initiative that would have imposed an additional levy on the wealthiest state residents....
...The corporate takeover of Las Vegas, which began with eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes’ purchase of the Desert Inn in 1967, was viewed by Meyer Lansky Sr as just one syndicate replacing another....
...Jeremy Baverstock is angry about dog faeces; Kenneth Cranshaw Sr rages about the mad duck at Threadbare Cottage (“THAT DUCK IS A WRONG ’UN....
...The show Rogers Jr performs is substantially a memorial service to his father, to his mother (Grace Arlene Wilkins), and to Rogers Sr’s third wife and co-star (Dale Evans)....
...Bramble, Sr., John Collins, Gary Countryman, Tommy Franks, and Charles Gifford....
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