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...In 2006, the maison bought Villa Empain in Brussels, restoring the house and turning it into a Centre of Art and Dialogue between eastern and western cultures. boghossianjewels.com C is for Brunello CucinelliThe...
...A January Forbes article named SBF as one of the group’s (then) billionaire backers....
...Diesel is the largest part of Rosso’s Only the Brave group, which reported revenues of €1.53bn in 2021....
...I think the extent to which, really, Putin has become the state, it's like maybe - I might be getting the French king wrong, but I think it's Louis XIV who said, l'etat c'est moi - I am the state....
...…driven by the annuities business (64% of the group now) which saw 10% growth year on year. L&G manages an £81bn annuities book....
...16,350: PJ Morsan, Winchester, England; Andrew Palfreman, Hull, England; Richard Heaton, London Polymath 1,052: AJ Cullens, London Crossword 16,344: John Williams, Eastbourne, England; Reg Green, Belgium; Graham...
...France L&S and Italy will not pay dividends this year, and XL Bermuda is unlikely to. The slack is only partly taken up by France P&C which is over distributing....
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...Unquestionably, China (14% of group sales in FY19) continues to be a stand-out success story for L’Oréal; we expect the beauty category in China to register HSD growth this year and for L’Oréal to outperform...
...Because of its merger with Sprint in Apr-20, TMUS's portfolio of spectrum below 6 GHz is now c.3x that of Verizon and c.2x that of AT&T....
...A number of AV Telegram group chats are also available....
...at the ‘C-suite’....
...(FT) Retail deals in trouble US private equity group Sycamore Partners said Victoria’s Secret owner L Brands breached the terms of the deal agreed in February, leaving the acquisition on the verge of collapse...
...Here’s Investec (sell) to summarise: [L]ockdowns are impacting consumption in North America (c. 30% of sales), Europe (c. 20% of sales), India (c. 10% of sales), Africa (12% of sales) and many countries...
...net debt of c£18.9bn....
...It gets straight to the point: We now assume an L-shaped RevPAR recovery (previously V-shaped), based on Jefdata consumer surveys, corporate guidance and industry forecasts. .....
...Rate relief drops away in FY22 so the recovery profile, in EPS at least, is not V-shaped....
...HSBC has some discussion about V and W shaped recoveries; its own model resembling “the Nike swoosh” is made by combining a proper V in mainland China forms and more of an L among Western European and American...
...At the Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, the collection’s raison d’être is to generate conversation – especially about the environment – through commissioning....
...Q4 2019 u/l PBT beat “rebased” consensus expectations by £111m (13%), though the outlook statement is somewhat sobering. ......
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...And GTA V’s publisher Rockstar has a history of delaying titles in the name of quality; GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, RDR2, Max Payne and L.A. Noire were all delayed....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...V, U, or L? The nature of Covid-19 growth impact means that some elements – e.g., production resumption, inventory restocking, and travel normalisation – would lend a natural rebound to growth....
...As our economists have explained, on a sequential quarter-on-quarter annualised basis their US forecast shows -34% in Q2, +19% in Q3 and +12% in Q4, which looks rather V-shaped....
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