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...Munger’s death brings Berkshire and its hundreds of thousands of shareholders closer to an era in which an investment empire worth nearly $800bn is steered by a less familiar group of leaders....
...Buffett has credited Munger with encouraging him to move on from the “cigar-butt strategy” espoused by his mentor Benjamin Graham, which involved buying cheap stocks akin to a discarded cigar where just...
...Imperial Brands, the maker of Davidoff cigars and cigarettes, sold its Russian operations to a local partner soon after the invasion, taking a $463mn hit to annual profits....
...The company also has a cigar brand which it unsuccessfully tried to spin off at the end of last year....
...But Babeau did not rule out further deals to boost the group’s reduced-risk portfolio: “There’s a difference between what’s needed and what’s great to do.”...
...Just don’t come expecting the hot tubs and cigar lounges found at some Canadian heli-ski lodges. More memorable treats lie in the mountains all around....
...He started his music career at the sharp end, as road manager for the rap group Run-DMC in the 1980s....
...Kendall fails in his coup, so teams up with a hedge fund and a rival media group to mount a hostile takeover....
...He lauded the group’s willingness to “openly [discuss] their financial moves in a public forum, as opposed to behind closed doors in private, cigar smoke filled rooms.”...
...This is just the latest example, and the government must act quickly to put a stop to it,” said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the anti-tobacco campaign group Action on Smoking and Health....
...After a stint as marketing director of John Middleton, the cigars and pipe tobacco unit, he moved to Zurich for his first international assignment at Richmark, a non-combustible start-up Altria launched...
...This was driven primarily by consistent volume growth in US cigars and Scandinavian snus....
...TATE has done sterling work on rebuilding its balance sheet and cashflow in recent years, reflected in FY20E ND:EBITDA (inc. IFRS 16) of 0.9x & 1.8x FCF dividend cover....
...Clarke is an aficionado of the finer things: cigars, jazz, Europe and long lunches....
...Boudreau, who will co-head the firm’s global private equity investments and buyouts group, and Karlyn, who will be a partner in its technology transactions group, both join from Foley & Lardner....
...medical marijuana group MedReleaf....
...Some former colleagues at Bear — run at the time by Jimmy Cayne, a cigar-smoking, bridge-playing chief executive known for his stinging observations — remember Mr Malpass fondly....
...Faced with these obstacles, a few years ago Buffett sought help in the form of Jorge Paulo Lemann, a founder of the private equity group 3G....
...of premium cigarettes and cigars....
...‘Brandy and cigars’ Board members are widely regarded as less independent-minded after long service....
...MoneyGram, the US money transfer group, has become the latest to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon....
...For those unfamiliar with the era of the Nifty Fifty, which reached its zenith in 1972, here is Professor Jeremy Siegel's excellent definition from his paper on the period: The Nifty Fifty were a group...
...Other companies that have surged in value after refocusing their businesses on blockchain technology include Rich Cigars, a cigar maker that trades on the over the counter market, which jumped by 2,000 per...
...Alan “Ace” Greenberg: Cigar-chomping trader who personified the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street as he built Bear in the 1970s and 80s....
...Personally he was a light smoker of Embassy cigarettes and occasional cigars. Garrett described himself in an interview with World Tobacco as “a gregarious sort of individual, noisy and extrovert”....
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