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...Nespresso’s success, boosted by clever advertising featuring US actor George Clooney, has however prompted growing competition, most recently form Starbucks....
...Last month, George Osborne, UK chancellor, launched a drive to ensure London becomes a “western hub” for trading in the renminbi, with support from Bank of China, HSBC and other banks....
...Boosted by a campaign fronted by George Clooney, Nespresso product sales rose 20 per cent to more than SFr3.5bn ($3.8bn) last year, according to Switzerland’s Nestlé....
...Additional reporting by Haig Simonian in Zurich...
...“We’ve always been significant proponents of managing the cycle”, said George Quinn, chief financial officer....
...George Osborne, UK chancellor, said Britain had an even greater obligation in the current economic climate to pursue people who try to avoid paying taxes: “The days when it was easy to stash the profits...
...This is a theme reprised by Megan Murphy and Haig Simonian in their account, available online, of a $2.3bn rogue trading scandal at UBS, the oft-troubled Swiss global investment bank....
...“Sovereign credit issues are a major challenge given the size of the balance sheet”, acknowledged George Quinn, chief financial officer....
...Additional reporting by Michael Stothard and Haig Simonian...
...Ambassadors come and go but, over the years, one face at Omega has remained as constant as Cindy Crawford or, more recently, George Clooney and Nicole Kidman....
...Yet a landmark tax deal between London and Bern, agreed in principle by George Osborne on Monday, rests on this leap of faith....
...George Osborne, UK chancellor, and his Swiss counterpart Hans-Rudolf Merz have agreed to begin negotiations on the precise terms of a new tax co-operation agreement, which is expected to be completed within...
...Similarly, Georges Kern, the head of IWC, was asked to perform the same task for Baume & Mercier....
...In September of this year he co-founded the Verbier campus of St George’s, a private international school....
...George Quinn, chief financial officer, said in a conference call that the transaction was not expected to have significant impact on profitability....
...Additional reporting by Tom Braithwaite in Washington, James Wilson in Frankfurt, Tony Barber in Brussels and Haig Simonian in Zurich ………………………………………………………… Q&A:Global powers struggle to find a formula...
...George Quinn, chief financial officer, said Swiss Re had bought back the underlying securities, which allowed substantially more freedom of action....
...George Quinn, chief financial officer, focused on the perils of quarterly reporting in extremely volatile markets for a group with an investment portfolio of nearly SFr200bn, and stressed instead Swiss Re...
...George Quinn, chief financial officer, suggested the problems encountered by some big insurers could create the potential for takeovers....
...In a sign of Mr Vasella’s frustration with the performance of its Sandoz generics subsidiary, Andreas Rummelt, another close lieutenant, is replaced as its head by Jeff George, currently in charge of emerging...
...George Quinn, chief financial officer, warned Swiss Re faced a further SFr200m writedown on the transaction in April, taking total losses on the complex deal to more than SFr2.2bn....
...GREECE - GEORGE ALOGOSKOUFIS George Alogoskoufis, finance minister since March 2004, has pushed through two big privatisations: the sale of Emporiki Bank, Greece’s fifth-largest lender, to Credit Agricole...
...Other Swiss schools, such as Beau Soleil or Aiglon in the ski village of Villars, or St Georges near Montreux, may vie for the same discreet exclusivity, but none quite matches Le Rosey for reputation, prestige...
...George Quinn, chief financial officer, declined to name the client, but said the damage was limited to a unique product....
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