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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Griffin and his senior team are attracted by the size of the asset class, its low correlation with other markets and its complexity....
...Now stuck in limbo and facing potential default, the European Walmart-equivalent is struggling to ditch its Russian owners. We’re also reading . . ....
...(Twitter, v University of Cambridge)...
...A Big Read examines the plight of Croatia’s Fortenova, a kind of local equivalent of Walmart that has a similar supersized effect on the country’s economy....
...The exodus of western companies from Russia meant that the Croatian equivalent of Walmart, which had just been climbing out of a painful restructuring, had lost a good chunk of its value....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...Griffin said he would loan the constitution to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which was built in 2011 by Alice Walton, an heir to the Walmart fortune....
...It was the Griffin papermakers who taught Frith-Powell his technique before naming the Foundation as its official successor; it was then granted Griffin’s Royal Warrant to supply the Queen’s library....
...Marketers are increasingly “asking retailers to prove” how much value is added by such advertising, says Paul Frampton, global president of digital marketing consultancy Control v Exposed....
...We just saw the FTC take on Walmart in a new case....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...Ken Griffin has emerged as the buyer of a rare first printing of the US constitution after a bidding war with crypto traders....
...US president Joe Biden has persuaded Walmart, UPS and FedEx to extend their working hours to ease the country’s supply chain woes....
...The change in fortunes marks a dramatic rehabilitation engineered by the group’s self-assured founder Ken Griffin....
...Walmart also reports, as does China’s largest search engine provider Baidu....
...“Let me be perfectly clear, absolutely not,” Griffin said. (FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...Optimists believed a “v-shaped” economic recovery was just around the corner, while others foresaw a slower “Nike swoosh” of a rebound....
...Big names like Ken Griffin’s Citadel saw its Wellington Fund rise 19.4 per cent last year, trumping rival Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, which was up 16 per cent....
...Retailers Walmart and Best Buy, and industrial groups Newell Brands and Mattel, are likely to be “the largest users” of such services, said Panjiva, the supply chain intelligence unit of S&P....
...(Billy Nauman) US chiefs find their voice on gun violence It is 23 years since Walmart banned a Sheryl Crow album that featured lyrics about children killing each other “with a gun they bought at the Walmart...
...And Griffin’s abuse, we learn, is what Cecilia has long been victim of. The cocktail of genre schlock and social conscience is not unproblematic....
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