Hints and tips:
...“I hope that will come sooner, quite soon . . ....
...“I tasted the resistance,” he declares of his and the girl’s first kiss, “the same resistance I encountered when I was pressing a drench gun into a ewe’s mouth to inject anti-maggot meds and stuck the pistol...
...I must admit that was not the first emotion I felt when I made this discovery (though I am now wondering if there is a line of cards reading Happy Happiness Day)....
...“I always want to adhere to this principle of a small yard or garden and a high fence. So if I can get things outside the scope of the legislation, I will do,” he said....
...In June, Vodafone announced a plan to merge its UK operations with Three-owner CK Hutchison to create the UK’s largest operator after talks had been ongoing for more than a year....
...Earlier this month, I spoke with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in Tokyo at an event hosted by Nikkei....
...“I now believe we have a team of insiders, not outsiders, who will take us forward within our values,” he said in an internal email to staff seen by the FT....
...I was lucky to have the perfect music for the occasion expertly played by my two good pianist friends, Jean Hutchison and Judith Keaney....
...More than a year on Brekke said: “I’m sad knowing that we had to leave Myanmar. Myanmar was both profitable and a place where we saw we would make a difference....
...The outcome will be closely watched because in 2016 the CMA urged Brussels to take a tough line against the proposed acquisition of O2 by Hutchison, the parent company of Three....
...Talks between Vodafone and CK Hutchison about a merger between their UK businesses are continuing, Della Valle said....
...“I bet you in the back of his mind he thinks he can be CEO of Goldman Sachs,” one person who used to work with Montag at the bank told the FT....
...Della Valle is trying to finalise a deal to combine Vodafone’s UK business with CK Hutchison’s Three UK, although negotiations have been painstakingly slow....
...“I haven’t seen a guidance change like that ever, frankly,” one tech trader at a Wall Street bank told DD, adding that after the company published its latest figures, “people do the math and it becomes something...
...They added: “I don’t think regulators will be a pushover, there will have to be some quite big concessions and promises made.”...
...Several insiders said the phrase “I’m not an investor” had become a common refrain. He wasn’t on the investment committee of Carlyle’s flagship buyout funds, sources said....
...Talks with CK Hutchison about merging Vodafone’s British business with Three UK have not been finalised, although the company said they remained ongoing....
...I did not have high expectations....
...I think it would,” said one top 15 investor adding that chief executive Nick Read, who joined Vodafone in 2001 and took the top job in 2018, has “been there for a long time . . . and he has not transformed...
...He recounted a surprise meeting with a Breit investor who told him: “I love you people. This is so amazing. All of my friends are losing a fortune in the market and I’m still making money.”...
...Maslen-Stannage is one of Australia’s most prominent corporate lawyers, having acted on deals including TPG Telecom’s A$15bn (US$10bn) merger with Vodafone Hutchison Australia in 2018 and David Jones’s acquisition...
...The Financial Times reported last week that Vodafone had reopened discussions with the Hong Kong infrastructure conglomerate CK Hutchison to combine its UK operations with Three UK....
...“A company like that doesn’t take a sizeable minority position unless they think they can have a lot of influence and I don’t think that they would buy a company like Vodafone unless they thought that momentum...
...Almost 20 years ago, telecoms company Hutchison Whampoa named its new mobile network “3” ahead of its launch as the UK’s first 3G-only service on March 3 2003, or 3/3/03....
...“The war in Ukraine has clarified a lot of minds,” said Fred Hutchison, president of the US LNG Association, the Washington-based lobby group that organised this week’s diplomatic bus tour....
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