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...Blue Apron’s marketing spend was equal to 18 per cent of revenue last year. At Hello Fresh it was equal to 17 per cent. Blue Apron can be commended for persuading customers to buy more....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway slashed its positions in a number of blue-chip US companies in the third quarter, as the billionaire investor converted billions of dollars from the sprawling conglomerate...
...People either saw the garment as blue and black or white and gold — and couldn’t understand how anyone could see the other side’s colours....
...American winners Blue-collar workers have proven top economists wrong, reports Bloomberg Businessweek: Inflation could be tamed without killing jobs....
...Tech workers and schoolteachers are the source of many of the videos but they have also been posted by blue-collar workers. The vast majority of the people behind them have been women....
...Monday’s list did not include some blue-chip companies, such as Toyota and SoftBank, but analysts said the main targets of the exercise were the myriad smaller businesses that are struggling to generate...
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...That is perhaps the chief longevity insight from Buettner’s Netflix study of five Blue Zones: move every day, preferably because you don’t have a choice....
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...European bankers have the bonus blues Break out your smallest violin and start playing a sad song for Europe’s investment bankers....
...Another $4bn of so-called “blue bonds” were issued last year for water improvements. Social and sustainability bonds are also continuing to come to the market....
...Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia and Tesla propped up the S&P index of blue-chip US companies last year as investors grew excited about the potential of AI, generating 62 per cent of its...
...Azar, reclining in a blue suit on a beige-leather sofa in his office above the Mayfair Sotheby’s real estate storefront, says talk of multiyear contracts paying more than £800,000 per year are absurd....
...A record 1.2mn EVs were sold in the US in 2023, according to data from Kelley Blue Book, a research company. EVs made up 7.6 per cent of the domestic car market, up from 5.9 per cent in 2022....
...In this year’s shareholder letter, Buffett discussed Berkshire’s ongoing winnings from American Express and Coca-Cola, both big blue-chip bets made in the 1990s....
...I have Rietveld’s Red and Blue chair, and also his Zig Zag and Crate chairs. And I have an Eames daybed-like one that they made for the director Billy Wilder, who used it for napping on movie sets....
...Lipton at the time wondered out loud about blue-chips ditching their Delaware domiciles — where the majority of large, listed American companies choose to incorporate — for the likes of New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...Tapping the blue blood of horseshoe crabs to test vaccines and medical devices is coming under fire, with environmentalists and a large European investor putting pressure on pharmaceuticals groups to seek...
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