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...While Take-Two’s established franchises, such as GTA, continued to sell well, newer releases struggled. Take-Two’s comments echoed similar remarks from EA, Ubisoft and Frontier Developments....
...Among many deals this year, it raised more than $10mn for Graphex Group Ltd, which has three business lines: landscaping, catering, and “processes raw graphite into purified spherical graphite, used for...
...The market’s view of this deal would appear to echo that of the character Trevor in GTA, when challenged for more money for a gift: “I told you to get something nice, not something expensive”....
...Challenger banks: opening an account -- Tesla’s self-driving tech is a laggard -- How pubs can re-open -- Coronavirus may be a blood vessel disease -- Not even Trump’s allies are happy -- Why bother with GTA...
...Marvin Ellison, chief executive, told analysts on Wednesday that customers had taken to garden landscaping as well as indoor repair and maintenance work.Doug McMillon, Walmart chief executive, this week...
...The lush fields where Ms Hla Ohn May and other farmers used to plant rice and beans are mere industrial landscaping now, manicured behind fences by company workers in orange jumpsuits....
...“With trees, landscaping, cafés, and bike paths weaving through these structures, we aim to blur the distinction between our buildings and nature.”...
...Take Two Entertainment's GTA V sold $800m worth of copies on its first day last September....
...Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the buyout firm led by Don Gogel, bought a majority stake in Deere & Co’s landscaping business last year for $465m....
...BMG Interactive bought the rights to the original version of GTA from Scottish studio DMA Design....
...The success of GTA V comes at time of flux for the games industry....
...Queues this week for GTA V were reminiscent of those for early iPhones. That is as it should be. If content – games, movies or books – is not more exciting than finance, something is wrong....
...The game, the first edition of the GTA franchise since 2008, is likely to benefit from a surge in console ownership in recent years, confirming the push of computer gaming into the mainstream....
...GTA V became the fastest selling game of all time when it came out last month, breaking the record set by Call of Duty last year....
...The garden centre has taught him skills including customer service, landscaping and stock checking....
...One former engineer in a plant bought from Motorola in Mexico said the new owners cut costs a lot – no more upmarket hotels while travelling, less spent on landscaping the facility – but also gave him more...
...The recovery has been driven mainly by small businesses, such as farmings, building and landscaping, that cannot function without a reliable truck....
...I might just have to make it a project on a future visit to Singapore Inc. Tyler Brûlé is editor-in-chief of Monocle magazine tyler.brule@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/brule...
...Mitie, a FTSE 250 company known for providing services such as cleaning, landscaping and security guarding, recently won its first contract to run an immigration removal centre....
...Marshalls, the building products specialist, said it had seen a slight upturn in sales during the first half of the year as demand for hard-landscaping stabilised....
...Galileo and GTA were both bought from Cendant in 2006, while Worldspan was purchased in 2007. Travelport also owns about 48 per cent of Orbitz Worldwide, a publicly listed online travel company....
...It has completed two deals: English Landscapes, a provider of landscaping and park maintenance services to local authorities; and IPS, a maker of pharmaceutical specials, or made-to-order drugs for pharmacies...
...Travelport’s businesses include Worldspan and Galileo, which provide computerised reservations and other services to the travel industry, as well as Gullivers Travel Associates (GTA), a wholesaler of accommodation...
...Major game releases also seem to be “back-end loaded”, compared to last year, when there were big hits earlier in the year, such as Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA)....
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