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...The new facility will be based in the historic Cha House, built in 1920, and will have a Gordon Ramsay restaurant, a bar and lounge, private dining rooms and terraces for members....
...Harrods’ head pastry chef sat down with — and baked for — the FT’s Ajesh Patalay to discuss his debut cookbook A New Way to Bake. Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...An Instagram post from earlier this year saw Dellal ushering two of her pigs, Gordon and Heston, past glitzy platforms and colourful sketches out through the stable door....
...The QIA became a global name in finance, investing in carmaker Volkswagen and grocer Sainsbury’s, as well as London’s Canary Wharf and luxury department store Harrods....
...Both chefs will be “amongst friends” says Saxton, joining a roster that already includes Gordon Ramsay, Jason Atherton, Vineet Bhatia and Tom Kerridge....
...Selfridges’ West End rival Harrods was acquired by the Qatar Investment Authority for £1.5bn in 2010....
...When she arrived at Coty, Nabi began going through every brand in the portfolio from the low to mid-priced names sold in Walmart to the luxury perfumes sold in Harrods to analyse their positioning, strengths...
...(FT) Azeri banker wife’s extradition blocked A London court has blocked the extradition of Zamira Hajiyeva, who spent £16.3m in Harrods and faces allegations of conspiring to defraud the state-owned International...
...The purchasing funnel was part of the same thinking that lay behind the creative marketing of department store impresario Harry Gordon Selfridge....
...offices as enablers Jahangir Hajiyev, chairman of Azerbaijan’s biggest bank, spent a fortune in the UK: £11.5m on a Knightsbridge townhouse, while his wife Zamira, wielding 35 credit cards, went wild in Harrods...
...His wife, Zamira, splurged $20m in Harrods. Now he’s been convicted of looting Azerbaijan’s state bank, and his case is at the centre of a UK crackdown on dirty money....
...There are the knockabout Lindsay Gordon mysteries, starring a lesbian journalist-turned-sleuth, and the brutal Tony Hill novels, which feature a troubled psychological profiler on the hunt for serial killers...
...Gordon Ramsay opened his new dining room Lucky Cat on the square in the same month to replace his old stager Maze, and the slightly tired Millennium Hotel London Mayfair has had a £50m facelift and relaunch...
...Upmarket department stores such as Harrods and Selfridges, along with toy specialist Hamleys, have long become accustomed to sky-high demand for an audience with the big man; Harrods, which has been doing...
...Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr’s sense for the zeitgeist meant that shoppers got a glimpse of Louis Blériot’s aeroplane days after he crossed the English channel in it in 1909 and John Logie Baird first demonstrated...
...When Harry Gordon Selfridge arrived in Europe in 1905, he sought to recreate the panache of Chicago department store Marshall Field’s in London....
...That includes trophy assets such as the Shard, the 1,000ft tower that looms over the City of London, and iconic institutions such as Harrods and Claridge’s....
...“Typically, they’re looking for one or two-bed flats,” says Jonathan Gordon, director of IP Global....
...But Gordon Watson, chief executive of Vertu, believes the luxury mobile phone sector can sustain sales of at least 500,000 units over the next few years....
...Like Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko, or The Wolf of Wall Street’s Jordan Belfort, both of whom unexpectedly inspired scores of would-be traders, Frank’s sleazy glamour may in some perverse way make politics...
...Tom Robbins Food Savour: Salads for all Seasons, by Peter Gordon, Jacqui Small, RRP£25/$35 I love Gordon’s books for many reasons but in this case it’s the fantastically loose definition of “salad”....
...CBE, Chairman and Chief Executive, Canary Wharf Group Mark Reynolds, Chief Executive, Mace Group Bill Moore CBE, Chief Executive, The Portman Estate John Stewart, Chairman, Legal and General Group Gordon...
...Overlooking the river, Riverhomes is selling a three-bedroom apartment in the Harrods development for £2.6m. London Wetland Centre, a 100-acre nature reserve, is also a hit with buyers, says Williams....
...“Attracting Chinese shoppers is not just about footfall and revenues,” says Jeremy Gordon, director at China Edge, a consultancy....
...Early on a midsummer evening, the gilded halls of Harrods are heaving with shoppers....
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