Hints and tips:
...When it comes to dealing with shareholders, has Google’s parent, Alphabet, turned over a new leaf?...
...Heinz pulls back on asset sales as it seeks to fix a broken business (CNBC) KKR devours Tim Tam biscuits maker in $2.2 billion deal with Campbell (Reuters) Philippines’ Jollibee to buy Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf...
...The UK recently took a leaf out of the US book when it announced it would run a competition to find the best SMR design, with £250m on offer to help with research and development....
...Mr Dubin walking through his warehouse, ridiculing anyone for paying $20 for a packet of razor blades, machete-ing through packing tape and finally dancing with a man in a bear costume while holding a leaf...
...Christopher Woodward is director of the Garden Museum in London Photographs: Rob Cardillo; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images; Visions of America, LLC/Alamy...
...The Nissan Leaf, a compact EV, can be charged fully through a domestic socket within four hours....
...The authors of equity research have begun to take a leaf out of Amazon’s book....
...Acceptance of greener powertrains – the mechanisms that transmit the drive from the engine to the axle – is slowly revving up, lead by the Prius, Nissan Leaf and others....
...hotel’s signature Martinique banana-leaf wallpaper....
...Nissan’s flagship Leaf model has had to be discounted in the US and Mr Ghosn has backed off from a forecast that electric cars would account for 10 per cent of global car sales by 2020....
...RGM Advisors LLC and Allston Trading LLC have discussed a deal that would combine their respective strengths in automated stock trading and futures markets, according to people close to the talks.”...
...Many are pessimistic about the near-term prospects of electric cars in general, after seeing weak sales of early plug-in models such as Nissan’s Leaf and GM’s Volt....
...Thanks in part to an influx of venture capital and private equity funds in recent years, names such as Ajisen, a Japanese noodle chain; Kung Fu, which sells Chinese comfort food; Banana Leaf, a Thai curry...
...Fortress Investment Group, for example, bought AIG’s American General consumer finance unit, renamed it Spring Leaf, and is using the securitisation markets to fund the operation....
...The Fluence will have competition from the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf, among others. The Leaf is a chargeable, fully electric vehicle....
...Sino-Forest might have come down like one of its (absolutely plenteous) Yunnan broadleaf trees on Muddy Waters LLC… And there’s a lot to leaf through (both pro and con) in the documents it’s released to...
...A lawyer by profession, in 1996 he famously sued E & J Gallo, now California’s biggest wine exporter, claiming they copied his labels on its Turning Leaf brand....
...cardigans in soft-as-snowflake cashmere appeared paired with fluffy yeti boots, fluffy yeti shorts and …an iceberg as backdrop; Mulberry and Missoni, where all was autumnal elegance thanks to knits in plum, leaf-green...
...Shares in Leaf Clean closed down 2p on Friday at 60½p. Leaf Clean also said it would consider a further share buyback of up to $20m....
...Of the Japanese carmakers, Nissan has chosen a plug-in design for its upcoming Leaf electric hatchback, while Toyota and Honda are busy promoting petrol-electric hybrids....
...Nissan wants to sell 200,000 Leafs globally by 2012....
...It has snapped up assets ranging from luggage maker Samsonite (sold recently for a threefold return); the New York container terminal; the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise; Brazilian forests and the New Zealand...
...“It has been there, a lonely leaf at the end of the branch, in the late autumn breeze, with the wind blowing, and it has not fallen yet,” he said....
...If you find yourself in Abu Dhabi, as I did the other day, it is worth driving westwards along the Corniche road to the Emirates Palace hotel, a $3bn edifice of marble and gold leaf, where a musician plays...
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