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...Walt Disney has won the support of investor ValueAct Capital, as the entertainment company gears up for a fight with activist Nelson Peltz over how to boost profits and lift its share price....
...In Montalcino, Jessica Pellegrini is lucky enough to have five hectares on the usefully north-facing hill of Montesoli at her disposal, but her wines are not inexpensive....
...After taking NFP private in a $1.3bn sale planned by then-chief Jessica Bibliowicz, the daughter of Citigroup architect Sandy Weill, Madison Dearborn sold a minority stake in 2017 to HPS....
...Jessica Worrell’s set is impressive, too: a few items of furniture in front of an expanse of rolling Perthshire countryside. You can almost smell the heather....
...According to Nick Nelson, a costume designer, stylist and lecturer of the Inside Fashion Styling course at The New School in New York, someone of high calibre can ask for up to $20,000 a day....
...ESPN is a “company fighting to stay in its place”, Bank of America analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich wrote this month....
...Iger also managed to outflank the activist Nelson Peltz, who launched a campaign to gain a seat on the company’s board earlier this year....
...Other large listings are already in the queue, including entertainment group Endeavor, Jessica Alba’s consumer goods business Honest Co and stock trading app Robinhood....
...Medallions of honour: the classic necklace gets a 2021 makeover By Jessica Beresford...
...Goldman Sachs has nominated Royal Dutch Shell chief financial officer Jessica Uhl to become its newest board director....
...Wendy’s, the fast-food chain whose board of directors is chaired by veteran activist investor Nelson Peltz, saw its shares rise to their highest in more than a decade on Thursday after it sold its stake...
...Morrison & Foerster has hired two new partners, Jessica Isokawa and Bradley Kondracki, in San Francisco....
...Jessica Zhou, harpist of the Boston Symphony, and Yo-Yo Ma on cello were the soloists. Deft and inoffensive, it sounded about 10 minutes too long. ★★★☆☆ bso.org...
...Shareholders have voted, and they have indicated that they want Nelson Peltz to join the Board.” P&G shares rose 3 per cent in after-hours trading....
...Nelson Peltz has claimed a board seat at Procter & Gamble based on a recount delivering him a thin margin of under 43,000 votes, in a dramatic twist to one of the largest and most expensive proxy battles...
...DLA Piper, a law firm, has hired Martin Nelson-Jones as a corporate partner based in London. He joins from Freshfields. Smart reads Peak iPhone? Not so fast....
...Avis executive chairman Ronald Nelson said in a statement earlier that the board was “pleased to have put in place a new cooperation agreement with SRS, with whom we have had a constructive relationship...
...“The electric vehicle has brought a whole new debate to mining and sustainability,” says Jessica Alsford, an analyst at Morgan Stanley....
...Nelson is 100 per cent behind Trump, but Jessica has a few more reservations. Here are Jessica and Nelson on video....
...The day Safe Harbour fell, Zach Nelson, the chief executive, was in London to announce plans to open data centres in Dublin and the Netherlands....
...It took testers so long to expose him that only in 2013 did the original runner-up, the American Adam Nelson, receive his gold medal in an Atlanta airport food court....
...Benedict Nelson makes a formidable Giovanni, both in terms of charisma and vocal heft, while Frederick Long contributes a wryly funny, mercurial Leporello....
...A close friend and political ally of the late Nelson Mandela – he was among the 156 co-defendants in the 1956 “Treason Trial”, an attempt by the apartheid government to lock up its political opponents –...
...Jessica Davis, 26, who supports a son on the $9.28 an hour she earns at a McDonald’s in Chicago, says she joined Fight for $15 after being approached by an organiser at the restaurant where she works....
...Strappy, pedicure-revealing sandals may be making news on the spring/summer 2014 runways and Sarah Jessica Parker may be teaming up with Manolo Blahnik to create a line of emphatically feminine footwear...
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