Hints and tips:
...Those considering a punt on Cipriani’s new €500mn club venture will hope the high-end Italian hospitality group performs better than New York-listed rival Soho House....
...Sotheby’s in-house scientific research unit has been unmanned since May when James Martin, around whom the department was founded in 2016, left the auction house....
...Five-star assets Raffles London, the lavish hotel once home to Winston Churchill’s office, underscores a new era of inflation-resistant super-luxury hospitality as foreign investors snap up trophy assets...
...Additional reporting by CK Tan in Shanghai A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 6. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...She says the auction business has changed dramatically since the pandemic: “Overnight, Sotheby’s became a digital auction house....
...It owns the auction house Bonhams and has previously owned Time Inc’s UK operations, whose titles include Woman’s Weekly, Country Life and Horse & Hound....
...The house, with a museum and restaurant, boasted more than 300,000 visitors a year before the pandemic....
...Having honed their hospitality skills at St John, the duo took over this once-failing venture in February 2021 with the aim of breathing new life into its old stone walls....
...Instead, the group has charted an aggressive growth strategy with the help of deep-pocketed shareholders like the US billionaire Ron Burkle and hospitality tycoon Richard Caring....
...But the question of what Soho House (aka Membership Collective Group Inc) might be worth is especially interesting....
...The White House and the Treasury, which chairs Cfius, did not comment....
...Customers had been “finding projects around the house” that they either “hadn’t had a chance to get to” or “just didn’t notice” before lockdown....
...Restaurants and hospitality businesses have been acutely affected by the coronavirus outbreak as governments across the world have mandated closures in order to slow the spread of the disease....
...Travel and hospitality companies have been particularly hard hit around the world, however: Oyo, the SoftBank-backed hotel chain, has already announced 3,000 job losses in China, and some US hotel owners...
...That is very clear from the top of the house,” said Ms Ng in an interview with the Financial Times, referring to senior executives in New York....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 28, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...You wouldn’t want a less-than-stable person in the house, darling, would you?...
...When a particularly brazen passenger decided to fake a heart attack so that he could get off right next to his house somewhere in the greater Los Angeles area instead of the Greyhound depot downtown, I got...
...London-based private equity group Epiris has closed its first fund, having raised £821m to buy assets including Bonhams auction house and Time Inc’s UK business....
...hospitality company....
...administration’s policy of forcibly separating children from migrants crossing America’s southern border illegally, in the latest test of corporate America’s increasingly strained relationship with the White House...
...He found a guest house that, like every building in the village, was unused in winter, and pressed it into service as a lodge....
...Over seven years, he dispensed advice on the finer details of manners, hospitality, food, wine, art, music, wealth, property, travel and how to wear a suit like a Supreme Leader, in copy rich with outrageous...
...Following the race, sitting in Frankfurt’s opera house where the bank’s hospitality was, I attempted to work out how much training I would have to do to come back next year and beat her....
...Mr Trump was miffed by the sudden development, feeling that Mr Tan had taken advantage of his hospitality, according to people familiar with the matter....
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