Hints and tips:
...Kubrick’s Space Station V in Earth’s orbit had a Hilton Hotel with picturephone booths and groovy Olivier Mourgue Djinn armchairs in the lobby to serve as the gateway to the Clavius Moon base....
...Google said: “Protecting consumers and credible businesses operating in the financial sector is a priority for us.”...
...She will continue to be based in London and maintain her existing role, head of portfolio operations and chief operating officer of Investcorp’s European private equity business....
...But, so far at least, the system is operating as it should. “It’s pretty extraordinary that with this amount of distress you haven’t seen more failures in asset management companies.”...
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Second, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin might want to send a slice of cake to Bill Gates, since it was arguably the US v Microsoft antitrust case 17 years ago, in which Microsoft was ultimately...
...Mr Dell has been vociferous about the attractions of operating away from the public gaze since taking his PC company private in 2013, arguing that it has freed him to take a longer-term view....
...But, in spite of building this global investment empire, Mr Sternlicht has returned to launching and operating hotels....
...“But with the bad news out for now, it would be easier to aim for a V-shaped recovery.” Despite the writedown, Toshiba maintained there was no change to the potential of its nuclear business....
...Hotel companies are highly visible—notably, Marriott (new owner of South Africa’s Protea), Hilton, and Starwood....
...income in 2013, up 8 per cent Netflix: $228.3m in operating income, up 356 per cent *Companies likely use different accounting principles...
...Aramark, which was acquired in a buyout worth $8.3bn including debt, has net debt of $5.7bn and a total debt to operating cash flow ratio of 4.75 before its listing....
...It will be an early focus for Hertz’s new chief financial officer, Tom Kennedy, formerly of hotels group Hilton Worldwide, who joined in December....
...This version, Accor explained to shareholders two years ago, “consists of adapting hotel operating structures to each unit’s market segment and location.”...
...Farmers v supermarkets The Campaign to Protect Rural England releases a report calling on the big supermarkets to stock more locally sourced food....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The tie up, which will also see Hilton operating two Habtoor properties in Beirut, Lebanon, is underpinned by the large Dubai family group....
...Dave was brainstorming with swivel-eyed Hilton until late on Wednesday because Business in the Community had collared him for a speech....
...That suggests that HKEx’s operating margins, typically about three times higher than peers in the US or Europe, are likely to remain among the best in the world....
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
...Blackstone’s private equity arm recently closed the benchmark liability management exercise for hotel-backed CMBS when it restructured USD 20bn of Hilton Hotels debt....
...That restriction, says V....
...It controls Future Brands, and owns a quarter of Maxxium, both of which distribute for Fortune and V&S....
...Johnstone’s succeeds LDV, which got new owners in December after being placed in administration, in the middle of its sixth season of sponsoring the LDV Vans Trophy, a tautology since the V stands for “vans...
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