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...It is followed by cigarette maker British American Tobacco and drugmaker GSK, which generates almost half its revenues in the US. Dutch medical devices group Philips ranks fifth....
...In the internal note, a Google executive called search advertising “one of the world’s greatest business models ever created”, before adding that only “illicit businesses (cigarettes or drugs) . . . could...
...Smoke signals Cigarette maker Philip Morris International’s quest to buy nicotine pouch maker Swedish Match has run into trouble with hedge funds in search of a bigger payday....
...A single tweet can be enough to determine that you and your views are in fact beyond the pale (just think of JK Rowling’s infamous “people who menstruate” tweet last year)....
...A recent “find” is the JK Place hotel, which is in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. It’s very charming, and the decor is really nice....
...Bets on private companies hit the performance of Tiger Global Management’s hedge funds last year after the group cut the value of its stakes in start-ups including e-cigarette company Juul....
...ritzcarlton.com John Paul Rathbone The Cellar Bar at The American Colony Hotel, Jerusalem It somehow evokes a crypt or a cave, with worn stone walls and dark lighting made more mysterious by the fog of cigarette...
...Partial exits from the Indian ecommerce company Flipkart, music streaming service Spotify and e-cigarette start-up Juul contributed proceeds, according to the letter....
...“Our company’s mission is to eliminate cigarettes and help the more than 1bn smokers worldwide switch to a better alternative,” Mr Burns said in a statement at the time....
...“We went through a lot of issues with cigarettes, alcohol and gambling, a lot of it was unregulated at first....
...The cigarette maker is now selling three tranches of euro-denominated debt, ranging from four to 12.5 years in maturity, and one tranche of eight-year sterling debt....
...That includes the iPhone maker and Instagram owner, as well as ecommerce behemoth Amazon, Google owner Alphabet and cigarette maker Philip Morris International....
...A cigarette is not speech. A shirt is not an idea. A table, gun, car, drug, etc, etc, ad nauseum, is not a belief....
...Corner shops are losing “bread and butter” sales of cigarettes and newspapers....
...I’ve worked a cigarette beside Catherine Deneuve. And while I mightn’t have sipped champagne on a yacht (as the song goes), I’ve sipped it on just about every other conceivable vehicle....
...Philip Morris, the cigarette maker, tried to change its image by renaming itself Altria, after the Latin word for “high”....
...All that’s left is the ghost of a cigarette, the edge of a nose and the big black blobs of her bonnet and his top hat....
...DD Altria Although it may not be a household name, tobacco company Altria owns a 26.6 per cent stake in SABMiller and some of the best-selling cigarette brands — including Marlboro, L&M and Benson & Hedges...
...Hachette authors, including JK Rowling, Donna Tartt and Malcolm Gladwell, were caught in the crossfire when Amazon, in an attempt to force the publisher to bow to its demands, delayed shipments of some of...
...The news that JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter oeuvre, has decided to give £1m to the Better Together campaign is a welcome boost to the pro-union campaign....
...silhouette with a focus on the waist: think a belted jacket that was draped on one side, rippling as the model walked to reveal snatches of silken lining; buttoned and elongated velveteen coats with a tapered cigarette...
...(FastFT) Cameron in U-turn on plain packaging for cigarettes: The government is to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes under plans to be announced on Thursday following a U-turn by the prime minister...
...The cigarette maker rejected pressure from TCI to triple its dividend and buy back $10bn of shares....
...The rejection slips for Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series are legendary in the business – but so too are the surprise hits, such as Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong...
...While designer Jenna Lyons’ signature acid brights took something of a backseat, pattern-blocking remained in force in rainbow-coloured cropped cigarette pants and jacquard paisley skirts with oversized...
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