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...The Van Damme and Van der Straten Ponthoz families are investing €400mn in equity in Tikehau Capital Advisors, the main shareholder in a publicly traded business spanning private debt, real assets, private...
...Donald Tusk, new head of the powerful centre-right party, on Monday received an internal report on Fidesz compiled by Herman van Rompuy....
...The company behind Jell-O and Heinz ketchup said it will nominate Alexandre Van Damme, a board member of Anheuser-Busch InBev, to stand for election in Mr Buffett’s stead....
...Mr Buffett is being replaced by Alexandre Van Damme, who is close to 3G’s founders....
...This week’s preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board threatens to hold up Uber’s plans to resume testing its self-driving cars later this year, following March’s collision, which...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 29 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...In one case, the stand-ins replayed dropping boxes from the back of a removal van, like extras in The Truman Show, the film in which actor Jim Carrey is caught in a fake world with an endlessly repeating...
...Its 2013 advertisement with Jean-Claude Van Damme performing the splits between two lorries in reverse, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the company’s steering system, has been viewed 85m times....
...In that accident, the car failed to spot a white van in bright sunlight....
...In a statement on her Facebook page, Ms van Susteren said she had informed Fox News on Thursday that she had decided to leave....
...Bumpy week for Tesla after latest driverless collision Tesla has been forced to defend how it markets its driver-assist technology, after a consumer in China, who crashed while using Autopilot, accused...
...Reporting by Oliver Ralph, Duncan Robinson, Gabriel Wildau, Alistair Gray, Song Jung-a, Anna Nicolaou...
...In 1987, the family merged Artois with the Van Damme family’s Piedbouf brewery to create the Interbrew group, which later stepped up its international expansion with a series of acquisitions, notably Anheuser-Busch...
...These included a hamster-operated steering wheel and actor Jean-Claude Van Damme doing the splits between two moving trucks. Such stunts rarely save on the marketing budget....
...As Sotheby’s and Christie’s, the two leading auction houses, open their London sales this week, auctioneers said the rapid internationalisation of the market over the past five years was causing a collision...
...Mr Vidra, a former Yahoo executive, spoke of turning the company into “a vertically integrated digital media company” under the leadership of Gabriel Snyder, formerly of Bloomberg Media and the Atlantic...
...“Installed 8.0.1 and now my phone has no cellular connection,” said Tim Van Damme, a designer at Dropbox and former early employee at Instagram, in a tweet....
...Renaissance right up to Rubens and Van Dyck....
...This is the definitive book on the great architect of modernism, Mr Minimal himself, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe....
...If there is a shortcoming, however, it is the absence of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Surely in all this madness there was a place for the Muscles from Brussels?...
...Over the past decade the cab maker has been in a head-on collision with most of the strategic challenges a company can encounter: globalisation, regulatory change, competitive pressure, outsourcing demands...
...Thierry van Roy and Melanie Gabriel Taïga Maya (Naïve) With its luxurious box packaging, both CD and DVD and an extravagant hardback book, Taïga Maya is a throwback concept album, wrapped in a backstory...
...“The market needs to have new destinations,” says Gabriel Escarrier, chief executive....
...France’s PSA Peugeot offers customers short-term rentals of cars, vans, bikes or scooters under a service called Mu by Peugeot....
...“China is our new growth engine,” Ronald Van der Vis, chief executive, tells investors repeatedly....
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