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...Job moves UBS has shaken up the leadership of its critical Middle East wealth management operations as it comes under pressure to keep staff happy following its takeover of Credit Suisse....
...Now a handful of UK outlets — among them Happy Sky bakery in west London, and Shokupan, which opens in Birmingham next month and seems itching to franchise across the country — are serving sandos, the spectacularly...
...If anyone were to ask me the secret to my long and happy marriage, chief among them would be the Bafta screeners that my husband gets every year....
...NPC blamed, in large part, the weakness of the Pizza Hut brand....
...No Time to Die: cinemas’ Bond-esque fight for survival There’s no happy ending in sight for the cinema business....
...And given the fees investment banks such as Goldman Sachs can earn covering private equity sponsors, they are more than happy to oblige....
...Johnny Colville, a managing director at investment bank Houlihan Lokey, said that while some institutional shareholders may be happy with dollar payments, other UK shareholders — who “in an ideal world would...
...What started as a flower factory under Li’s control in the 1960s, is now a group that controls telecoms, energy producers, ports and large retail franchises across Europe and Asia....
...The higher rating reduces borrowing costs, but investors are happy, too....
...We are making happy progress through our main courses when, unordered, $19 worth of margherita pizza appears with the chef’s compliments....
...How do you compete with these giant franchise movies? How do you put a movie out like Stand by Me or Gandhi? Who’s a movie star now? There are no stars any more.”...
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...It seems 89m pizzas is still not enough. Investors are certainly not happy with Domino’s Pizza Group this morning....
...“Our industry is very happy to be put under the microscope. We have codes covering ethical behaviour in place,” said Yasser El-Ansary, Avcal chief executive....
...In the Yum deal, Yum China will become a licensee of its parent company, with exclusive rights to KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in China....
...“Start-ups are very happy to get as much as they can for free.” This is not altruism, says Mr Roomer. KPMG’s tenancy is partly a branding exercise....
...Other success stories include Baroness Shriti Vadera, chairman of Santander UK, and Lord Rumi Verjee, the entrepreneur who brought the Domino’s Pizza franchise to the UK....
...Brokers may not be particularly happy with IEX, given that it is expensive. IEX charges 9 mils both to take and to provide liquidity, generating 18 mils (18 cents per 100 shares) per trade....
...“I don’t think we or anyone else would be happy trading with [Citadel] on a bilateral basis,” says a derivatives head at a European asset manager, which has yet to begin clearing trades....
...“We think investors should want to own Yum for its unique open-ended middle-class growth story in China and its strong and growing franchise-led cash flows outside China,” he told investors....
...A push from Barclays meant Domino’s Pizza climbed to a record high on Wednesday. The franchise operator added 5.9 per cent to 775p after Barclays set an 850p target price....
...Come evening it means you can have your Viennese cake and eat it, along with excellent pasta and pizza, and some of Europe’s best white wines....
...Mr Matsuda says companies are putting the lessons learnt from their brief stints in Japan in the 1980s to use by returning with strong local franchise operators and adapting to tastes....
...“She understood the global potential of British programming, buying out companies and creating global franchises.”...
...In fact, in private moments, economists are often happy to admit that most of the people they know are clueless about economic matters....
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