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...The latter offers a cleverly curated menu of facial, body and massage treatments, though a Revival massage with Heath, the friendly practitioner who treated me, will certainly cure what ails you....
...Parting with the platform would help Disney focus on family-friendly brands such as Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars as it tries to lighten its $48bn debt load....
...Dinner is at Rules, which claims to be London’s oldest restaurant, and specialises in one of Bond’s favourite dishes, steak and kidney pudding with an oyster stuck on top....
...The busy baristas were friendly, and the place was abuzz with the quiet chatter of customers....
...Middle-market buyout firms and companies securitising everything from pharmaceutical royalties to restaurant franchises now turn to the lending businesses of Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management and...
...They include a profitable investment in the Beats headphone brand, property holdings in Manhattan’s Tribeca district, and restaurants on Long Island in New York state....
...She teaches at Le Tigre (among other places), one of Paris’s high-end gym franchises....
...One of these investments was into a fund that helped finance the films Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, and latest in the Men in Black franchise....
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...Mr Harris juggled sports holdings that include a controlling stake in the Philadelphia 76ers basketball franchise and London’s Crystal Palace football club....
...Appropriately enough, we are having lunch at Scott’s in Mayfair, the acclaimed seafood restaurant that has quickly drawn back its pre-pandemic mix of high financiers and look-at-me celebrities....
...“If you think about what [GE] lent against, they lent against planes, trains, automobiles, medical equipment, dealer floor plan [used car inventories], franchises, and so on.”...
...Smart charts: the rise of the film franchise Hollywood is no stranger to big franchises....
...“Japan is going through a rapidly accelerating transition towards becoming a dramatically more shareholder-friendly investment universe....
...Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton is among the investors in a new restaurant group that aims to be the world’s first plant-based burger chain....
...Franchise chains like Taco Bell have been cutting up their debt into tranches with different levels of risk, and promising investors first dibs on revenues from franchises and company-owned restaurants as...
...At the centre of all that is a gently spoken creator of bestsellers such as the Metal Gear franchise. Kojima enjoys megastar status among a worldwide fan base and, aged 56, personifies geeky mischief....
...And there are plenty of restaurants nearby, not least justly fabled Osteria alle Testiere, five minutes’ walk away....
...We are in Hamasaku, a swanky sushi restaurant he owns on the west side of Los Angeles....
...I can’t say we were best friends but we knew each other and I think we would say hello and smile and be friendly.”...
...For example, by harnessing the geolocational data from bike sharing, some analysts point out that it can better target ads for restaurants and hotels....
...Yum Brands (Q3), the operator of fast-food chains such as Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, is set to post a rise in comparable restaurant sales, helped by higher sales in its KFC restaurants....
...In September, US casino and restaurant magnate Tilman Fertitta acquired the Rockets for $2.2bn, the highest price commanded for an NBA franchise....
...The app also helps in finding local tourist spots or nearby restaurants, and offers discounts....
...Shares of DineEquity — which, through its subsidiaries, franchises Applebee’s, a purveyor of family-friendly American fare, and IHOP, the all-day pancake chain — jumped as much as 15.6 per cent after the...
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