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...creation at the head of the Marshwood Vale, and a yew-and-sculpture garden belonging to British furniture maker John Makepeace in Beaminster....
...Blake Scholl, Boom’s founder, believes there are enough of you out there to fill “hundreds if not thousands of these aeroplanes”. I am not so sure....
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: It is time to return to more civilised forms of transport / From Uwe Siemon-Netto, Laguna Wood, CA, US...
...The $128-a-share all cash deal follows months of wrangling: Bayer, the German group whose diverse operations range from producing Dr Scholl’s footcare products to seeds, first approached Monsanto in May....
...John McLachlan, john.mclachlan@hotmail.co.uk....
...(BBC) Return of 'affordable' supersonic flights Sir Richard Branson has announced that Virgin will be partnering with US supersonic jet start-up Boom, headed by pilot and former Amazon executive Blake Scholl...
...Well, in 2000 Mr Stoller was approached by John Roberts, the founder of AO World, to help with the monthly wages bill....
...He was an early backer of AO World, the online white goods retailer, after he took a shine to John Roberts, its ambitious founder....
...With the appointment of Andreas Scholl as artist in residence, King’s Easter Festival – now celebrating its 10th anniversary – has come of age....
...John Roberts, founder of AO, has also pledged to give some of the £86m he made from the sale – which valued the business at £1.3bn – to charity....
...“Plisetskaya compensated for her lack of first-rate training… by developing an individual, iconoclastic style that capitalized on her electrifying stage presence,” wrote Tim Scholl in the foreword to Yale...
...John Wood Group, the oil services company, is considering a sale of its well support division to rivals that include Texas-based Halliburton....
...According to Todd Scholl, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, the sale of well support makes Wood Group a more “pure” engineering company, focusing on design rather than manufacturing....
...However, Mr Scholl said that because of the timing of the Israel contract, the deal would depress profit margins next year before boosting them in 2012 and 2013....
...SSL successfully expanded the Durex brand while Scholl has benefited from new products that cushion feet in high-heeled shoes....
...Analysts point to Merck, which owns the Scholl brand in North and South America, as a possible counter bidder....
...“The trend for deepwater drilling will continue,” said Todd Scholl, analyst at RBC Capital Markets. “Nine per cent of oil production will come from deepwater by 2015, from 2.2 per cent in 2000....
...It compares favourably with the most recent acquisition in personal care products, that of Reckitt Benckiser taking over SSL International, the maker of Durex condoms and Scholl footcare, in July this year...
...Sales of Scholl footcare products grew 5 per cent to £168m during the year, and the group’s “K+” cracked-heel repair cream has achieved sales of almost £20m since its launch in 2008....
...The Scholl brand of footwear and footcare products was boosted by solid growth in Japan and France and SSL said it will start adding Scholl footcare products to its Russian distribution platform later this...
...The last time the Takeover Panel used its cold shoulder powers was in 1992 against businessmen Andrew Drummond and John Prentice and it concerned an attempt to take control of Dundee Football Club....
...SSL’s Scholl range of footcare products performed well in Japan and Germany, while French and Thai consumers were keen buyers of Scholl’s footwear range. However, Scholl sales suffered in Italy....
...The Scholl brand saw sales growth of 4.7 per cent in footwear, but more sluggish growth of 1.9 per cent in footcare products after being hit by destocking in Italy....
...Other areas of SSL’s business, however – especially Scholl footwear – look more vulnerable, as people make do with older shoes....
...He was known for capturing the beauty of landscape and structures by great architects including John Lautner, Richard Neutra and Albery Frey....
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