Hints and tips:
...The global EV crown is up for grabs as brand loyalty towards gas-powered cars fades....
...Outside the US, Disney has created a general entertainment service via its Star brand....
...Somewhat strangely, a version of the article archived on October 3 says Zhao is “co-founder and CTO of DeNexus Inc.”, while one archived two days later says “founder of Atomic Vaults”....
...“We are at the end of a 40-year bond bull market, and we are going to have to navigate a bear market at some point in the future,” says Dwight Scott, global head of Blackstone’s credit investing arm....
...It’s a sharp deviation from last year, when the Ferragamo family, which owns a 54 per cent stake in Ferragamo Finanziaria, the holding company that controls the brand, explored selling a minority stake to...
...Citigroup has hired Niall Cannon as co-head of its global software team based in San Francisco. Cannon joins from RBC Capital Markets....
...The decision of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to step away from day-to-day involvement in the tech holding company last month stirred hopes on Wall Street that Alphabet would take on more of the...
...But it has been the major European luxury conglomerates — and not independent American brands — that have captured the lion’s share of that growth, capitalising on global demand for luxury sportswear and...
...A nearly identical resolution was passed in May at rival Sturm & Ruger, with BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Global Advisers all voting in favour....
...Multinationals’ growth slowed in recent years as Beijing pushed for price cuts to hundreds of branded off-patent drugs as a condition of adding them to state co-payment schemes....
...Sir Martin admitted to the FT recently that the company’s full-year results had reflected a “walloping” from lower spending on advertising by multinational brands....
...As one of the most dynamic businessmen in America — he founded real estate investment behemoth Chestnut Holdings LLC, and was an early investor in designer Tory Burch — he’s more than just a backer....
...Before it was revealed last week that he had built a 9.7 per cent stake in Daimler worth $9bn, Zhejiang Geely Holdings already owned or controlled Volvo Cars, British sports car brand Lotus, Malaysian carmaker...
...Beats’ edgy cool clearly appealed to Apple as part of the 2014 deal, and it also wanted the brand to reinvent Apple’s digital music offering....
...Under the terms of the deal struck with Hostess’s current owners – Apollo Global Management and C Dean Metropoulos & Co – Gores Holdings will provide $375m through a trust account and additional investors...
...JAB also holds majority stakes in Caribou Coffee Company and Einstein Bagels Co....
...Before the global financial crisis, he had been planning a development on the Palm Jumeirah, an artificial archipelago in Dubai, but he subsequently cancelled it....
...The Lees’ direct holding in group flagship Samsung Electronics is just 4.7 per cent....
...Together the Porsche and Piëch families control 51 per cent of the voting shares in VW via the Porsche SE holding company....
...Snapchat is at the early stages of generating revenue, selling its “stories” to big brands such as Universal Pictures, which used the app to promote its horror film Ouija, and Samsung, which sponsored a...
...The drama around the default, which prompted a three-day bank run at a small rural bank, led some analysts to brand the incident “China’s Lehman moment”, while fund managers warned ominously that more defaults...
...Going local A different approach is to develop global service or product platforms, which can be tailored at a local level....
...Now, industry executives and analysts say, the unrest in Hong Kong is threatening to be a tipping point for the global luxury market, which was worth about €217bn in 2013, according to Bain & Co....
...Despite being ranked one of the world’s “sexiest” brands in 2014 by BrandZ, Prada could not escape the slowdown hitting the global luxury sector....
...The rest of the proceeds will be used for employee incentives and to enhance its brand recognition....
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