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...Last year it bought a majority stake in Germany’s Italian-themed restaurant chain L’Osteria and signed a deal with the high-end French-owned chain Big Mamma....
...Constructed in 1827 in an L-shape, connecting the city centre thoroughfares of Buchanan Street and Argyle Street, its hammerbeam roof is more reminiscent of a baronial castle than a shopping mall....
...On the palate, this goes on and on.£62 for 50cl, Valhalla’s Goat, Glasgow, Cork of the North (on sale at £30) SWEET Ch Broustet, Tesco Finest Sauternes 2018 Barsac (13.5%)A steal for an oak-aged wine made...
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...Tier lll includes schools from BI Norwegian Business School, ranked 39th, to the University of Glasgow: Adam Smith, ranked 77th....
...I am taken along a passageway from the church to the refectory, a whitewashed L-shaped room with limited but tasteful religious decoration....
...First you get the Waitrose, then the Gail’s and, after that, it is only a matter of time until an artisanal food market sprouts up in a car park somewhere....
...Glasgow fell culturally silent through Covid....
...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...Its draft kegs contain Tennent’s Extra, with an eye-watering 9 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV), shipped all the way from Glasgow....
...Mirova manages carbon credit investment pools for companies that buy offsets to reach net zero targets, including a €50mn nature protection fund for telecoms group Orange and a fund of the same size for L’...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...The heir to the British throne was in Glasgow to bestow some royal favour on businesses he saw leading that change — companies as diverse as AstraZeneca, Bank of America, IBM and L’Oréal....
...Then came the “ice-cream wars” of the 1980s, when family relations broke down between brothers Peter and Aldo, and the ice-cream van became briefly equated with gangsterism on the streets of Glasgow....
...L&G found that 10 per cent of over-50s who have not yet retired are expecting to retire earlier than they anticipated, by two years on average....
...Mark Carney’s Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero might have $130tn of private capital committed to hitting net zero by 2050....
...I live in Glasgow and so jealously resent the event in any year, but even I was genuinely excited about its return....
...Bri in Chi toppingbooks.co.uk Voltaire & Rousseau, Glasgow Thousands of second-hand & antiquarian books housed (stacked) inside a small Glasgow shop. “They even have their own cat!”...
...Faith Glasgow is a freelance journalist and the former editor of Money Observer. Twitter: @faithglasgow...
...CVC Capital Partners, L Catterton and Ardian are among those on the watchlist for possible future listings....
...While the work Salgado is showing in Amazônia is peaceful and untroubled, he has had a second show in Paris called Blessure (“Injury”), at L’espace Frans Krajcberg, with pictures of the destroyed Amazon....
...In the UK, the Endangered Crafts Fund, which awards grants to practitioners of Red List techniques, last year enabled Glasgow bookbinder Gillian Stewart to learn and then teach the disappearing art of fore-edge...
...Big tenants include Signet Jewelers, Victoria’s Secret owner L Brands and Dick’s Sporting Goods, as well as JCPenney....
...Not that you’d know it on the shores of Ullswater, a nine-mile-long lake just 20 minutes’ drive from Penrith, a small market town on the London-Glasgow train line....
...Projects with Glasgow International, Sydney Biennial and the Hayward followed Jacques’s decision to represent Sheila Hicks in 2012, after coming across her work at the São Paulo Biennial....
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