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...Local environmental science teacher Ben Wood can’t wait for the pistes to be “managed more efficiently”....
...“But there’s also a lot of wood to chop and Walgreens has really just nibbled around the edges so far.”...
...“Their inventories are exploding,” Cathie Wood, chief investment officer at Ark Invest, wrote in a Twitter post on Walmart and Target....
...His work in shaping and protecting the business’s brand and reputation has helped it move from being a pharmacy chain to offering a broader range of healthcare services....
...He had been struck by its gently sloped meadows, views of Mont Blanc and easy access from Geneva....
...More than 40 big companies, including Mars Inc, PepsiCo and Unilever, are now experimenting with reusable packaging, according to the foundation....
...The trophy Jean-Michel Basquiat acrylic and oilstick on wood panel, titled “La Hara”, sold for $35m, well above its low presale estimate....
...The boutique, fitted-out in leather, bronze and wood, is intended to resemble a giant jewel box....
...Guido Bartolozzi is another regular haunt of mine, a very unusual antique-furniture emporium – I love the old doors and wood panelling....
...Bolko Hohaus, who manages a technology fund for Lombard Odier in Geneva, recently called on the chief financial officer of a tech company in the US to try to understand why that firm had engaged in such...
...This year, CVS, the US pharmacy company, said it would charge its workers an extra $600 annually if they refused to submit to tests of their glucose levels, body fat and weight....
...●Wood. A bit of oak or ash here and there would be a nice addition. ●A few smaller kiosks might be an interesting idea – focused on the best in print....
...Investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, lost 67 employees. Cantor Fitzgerald, a bond brokerage, lost 658 employees....
...It’s not a manicured park with flower beds and stuff, it’s mostly wood, a wild wood criss-crossed by trails, with big giant trees, fallen-down trees, saplings growing up again....
...In this category, Sinopec’s $8.5bn acquisition of Addax, the Geneva-based company with assets in Nigeria and Kurdistan, was the most valuable deal of the year....
...Shares in CVS Caremark climbed 5.3 per cent to $32.72 after the retail pharmacy chain beat quarterly estimates....
...The drugmaker said it believed the smell was related to a chemical used in wood pallets used to transport and store product packaging material....
...Using an oil drum and a plank of wood as a desk, and with a cushion provided by his longtime partner and employee, Heather, he used his mobile phone to start building a new empire....
...Visitors arrive from New York, Geneva and Silicon Valley, all toting Apples of their own – containers for sales projections and customer data....
...“Geneva has been a popular place to go for single high-flying professionals but if somebody has a young family or wants to be closer to the UK for health reasons, Jersey is more popular,” says Sappé....
...In 1937 Sam Rubin, an American of Russian descent, started a perfume company and called it Fabergé Inc without the family’s permission....
...Essential businesses such as supermarkets, hospitals and pharmacies were told to stay open. But from Friday until Tuesday only critical government health and security workers would be on duty....
...He had been at Credit Suisse for 17 years in Zurich, Geneva, Dubai and Istanbul. Before that, Mr von Daeniken, who is Swiss, had worked for the Red Cross in Iraq prior to the first Gulf war....
...“I think these people misunderstand the community of private bankers in Geneva,” he says. “You find a lot less exuberance compared to hedge funds, private equity or investment banking....
...Highland Capital, the Boston-based venture capital firm, is opening offices in Geneva and Shanghai this year....
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