Hints and tips:
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...Filled with now priceless collections of art and books, the house became tabloid-famous for a moment in 2003 when the fashion designer Stella McCartney married Alasdhair Willis at the house....
...Paul De’Ath, head of market intelligence at consultancy Oxbow Partners, said: “It’s a bit of a surprise, I would have thought they’d be very careful about making sure they weren’t doing anything outside...
...Willi Riester, the chief technology officer in China at Chiron, a family-run maker of machine tools, said that 15 years ago local competition was rare and “not really able to produce and engineer machines...
...Although he wears his 100-strong collection of kippers far less frequently now, he continues to champion spearpoint-collared shirts, which he has made for him bespoke by Emma Willis....
...I was at Geri Horner’s birthday party, and there was a candle behind me and I didn’t see it, and it burned the backside of my velvet evening jacket....
...“I think he’d do a good job but I don’t know if we can get him elected,” said a different man in the second ad obtained by the Financial Times. “I think it’s too risky for the country....
...It was my ex-husband, Bruce [Willis], who wanted to get a place here; I’d never really heard of Sun Valley. The first time I came, our eldest daughter Rumer was 12 days old....
...It’d be like going to a rock concert with no volume. You need to have an element of emotion and entertainment, and Formula 1 as a sport has to be entertaining....
...Publishers could extricate themselves from this pickle — if they’d slow the flood to a trickle. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Angus Duncan, a D&O specialist at insurance broker Willis Towers Watson, said insurers were asking for more information about clients’ climate policies, and even discussing policy “enhancements” — amendment...
...“I think the fact that they did go to the trouble of doing this at all, knowing there’d be a Trumpian response, indicates that whatever they’re looking for, probably is relatively important,” said Michael...
...Considering wider trousers are more fashionable again now, which surely allows more space for boxers, I’d like to believe it....
...“If [the concerns over growing broker power] were true, we’d never have a hard market,” he said, using an industry term for the current upswing....
...This year’s corporate blockbusters include former winner William D Cohan, who took the prize in 2007 with The Last Tycoons, about Lazard Frères....
...Alex BarkerDid he seem like the other kind of businessman you’d meet in the adult industry? Clement PicquetNo, no, not at all....
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...Norm, I'd like your thoughts on that, whether DeSantis has got the mojo....
...And if I hadn’t, I’d be offered this retrospective but I wouldn’t be able to do it.”...
...We can see why Aon’s lawyers said they’d be in a “world of hurt” if they lost — the company has to pay a $1bn break fee to Willis....
...My style icon is the late actress Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis in the 1970s TV series The Jeffersons....
...One thing to start: the US Justice department has sued to block Aon’s takeover of Willis Towers Watson, threatening a $30bn deal intended to create the world’s biggest insurance broker. More here....
...Insurers including CNA Hardy and Pioneer have ceased writing renewable energy business and begun to run off their accounts, according to a survey by Willis Towers Watson, a broker....
...Instead, he and Daniel Willis have cooked up a wine and music side project they’re calling Grand Kru Soundsystem....
...Jay Z, who also part-owns the D’Usse VSOP Cognac brand, “is a very shrewd businessman, an aspirational figure for African-Americans. He isn’t a wild party animal.”...
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