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...Switzerland says that the “Made in Switzerland” marque adds up to 50 per cent to the price of luxury goods....
...Opens this summer, rates yet to be set, hotelducouvent.com South Carolina Johns is the largest of the marshy Charleston Sea Islands and home to The Dunlin, a 2,000-acre waterfront estate containing 72...
...A plan is needed to regulate current account imbalances, which draws on John Maynard Keynes’s project for an international clearing union....
...With a technically solid but green Rudolf in Paul Marque, the women around him did sterling work to convey his many troubled relationships....
...Oppo, which sells both the popular realme brand and its eponymous marque, was accused by Indian regulators of tax evasion this week....
...The Exor group, founded by Fiat co-founder Giovanni Agnelli and now run by his grandson John Elkann, is Ferrari’s largest shareholder....
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: New age of motoring will resemble the prewar era / From David Boorer, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, UK...
.../ From John Breen, Hong Kong...
...John Maynard Keynes himself devoted a section of the General Theory to Silvio Gesell’s early-20th century proposal for “stamped” money that would incur a charge for the holder....
...“We need to be more sustainable, and consider [attracting] more prosperous visitors in future,” says Rita Marques, Portugal’s tourism minister....
...It’s a key model in the marque’s offering that has remained largely untouched since its introduction in, er, 1950....
...Leather goods are followed by the store’s own compelling collections, as well as exceptional products from cult marques such as Charvet and Blackhorse Lane Ateliers....
...In the 19th century, John Bentinck, the fifth Duke of Portland, dug miles of tunnels and built entire underground apartments beneath his estate in England’s east Midlands so as to avoid seeing other people...
...PSA’s Carlos Tavares will be chief executive on an initial mandate of five years, with John Elkann, scion of the Italian Agnelli family that controls FCA, as chairman, the two companies said....
...The joint venture between Daimler and BAIC is the core of the group’s business,” said John Zeng, managing director of research group LMC Automotive Shanghai....
...Lighthizer finally handed in the proposal of the treaty to the House of Representatives . . . in Mexico we would have to see what is in this treaty to make the adjustments in an addendum,” Graciela Márque...
...Alas, the ladder bracelet will not make an appearance on the gold watch which, with its black and gold dial, is an unmistakable reference to the fabled John Player Special Paul Newman Daytona....
...And John Craddock sells rust-resisting galvanised chassis for Series Land Rovers....
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...France’s largest carmaker, PSA, which owns the Peugeot and Citroën marques, plans to merge with Fiat Chrysler, the Italian-American carmaker....
...The deal will bring under one roof the Citroën, Opel and Vauxhall marques from PSA, with Jeep, Dodge and Alfa Romeo from FCA....
...Together, they have 15 vehicle marques — more than the dozen held by global leader Volkswagen....
...Last year, Opel-Vauxhall reported a profit of €859m, the first for the marques since 1999....
...I thought pizza chain Papa John was right to sever ties with its founder over claims he used a racial slur even though he now disputes it....
...“Astounded” was the word used by John Nollett, chief executive of Pressmark Pressings, after he heard the news....
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