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...Other retailers with similar policies, including H&M, Ceconomy, Deichmann and Puma received significantly less attention....
...I’m not playing golf. I have no sports cars.” Other Axel Springer shareholders include Canadian pension fund CPPIB, which owns a 13 per cent stake....
...“We are the number one holiday destination for domestic tourism during summer,” Kristiansand’s mayor, Mathias Bernander, tells me....
...Mathias Miedreich, chief executive of Umicore, told the FT that sales of Chinese electric cars were surging in contrast to the US due to better performance and affordability. Read the full interview....
...In today’s newsletter: Mathias Döpfner celebrates the big 6-0 Nigel Farage’s banking woes Illumina faces a record fine from the EU Ain’t no party like a Mathias Döpfner party 60th birthday parties are...
...“Those who have spousal support, won’t say, ‘I’m lucky.’ It’s smug.”...
...“The fact that there’s not been a mega-deal doesn’t mean it’s going to be a bad year for healthcare M&A; quite the contrary it’s going to be a good year,” said Frank Aquila, senior M&A partner at law firm...
...Björk describes M/M, the Parisian graphic design agency founded by Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag, with which she has collaborated on her album artwork for two decades....
...“I’m being really conservative, but I don’t like when they start putting all kinds of weird things in, like pistachio and liquorice,” Hahnemann says....
...“We don’t think it puts the traditional role of a VC under threat,” said Mathias Schilling, a founding partner at Headline....
...I still see Zero and her partner sometimes when I’m out walking my dog. She flies down calling to me. She’s saying hello.” So, a heartwarming conclusion. I doubt we will get that with AI....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com....
...Smart reads Based on true events A fictional German novel with very real parallels to the scandal at KKR-backed media giant Axel Springer is piling pressure on its chief Mathias Döpfner, the FT reports....
...“I’m not joining the board. This is a waste of time. Will make an offer to take Twitter private.”...
...I’m keen to hear your thoughts and advice on how to best handle the fairly bleak economic outlook we’re facing. As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com....
...While much of its growth has come through acquisitions, she said, “they took the cash flow from the traditional print business and redeployed it in M&A, and they grew the digital business from there”....
...Cakes, including a daily cheese cake and ujikin (a kind of matcha-flavoured snow cone) and a variety of teas (I’m partial to the buckwheat) and coffees round out the offerings....
...“I’m quietly optimistic that in the end sense and sensibility will prevail.”...
...White & Case has hired Robert Nield as a partner in its London M&A practice. He joins the law firm from Sidley Austin....
...It’s now clear that the digital media M&A dance is in full swing, and we should expect more roll-ups as nobody wants to be the last one standing alone....
...The old adage about the danger of meeting one’s heroes did not apply when Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag of design and art direction agency M/M (Paris) were introduced to British graphic artist...
...Read more The pragmatism of the Tang dynasty shaped the state’s central role in China’s tech development today, Nina Xiang writes.Read more The OECD under Mathias Cormann could be the thorn in China’s...
...It’s a horrible environment, and I’m glad I’m not managing money.”...
...“I’m tending to conclude it was the right call,” he says. “It has taken the question of community need out of the hands of the operator and into the politician.”...
...The colourful Torres de Satélite (Satellite Towers), designed by famed Mexican architect Luis Barragán and sculptor Mathias Goeritz, rise up from the Periférico ring road....
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