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...Victoria Tillbrook, a UK pensions expert at consultancy PwC, said “more and more” trustees wanted to fully understand developments in what insurers were doing, what was being reinsured and the position of...
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...Google plans to leave at least one of its London offices — in Belgrave House, Victoria — next year, according to three people familiar with the matter....
...But these competitors are still tiny compared with Victoria’s Secret. Savage x Fenty, for example, represents only 4 per cent of the US intimate market, compared with Victoria’s Secret’s 19 per cent....
...The project will cross multiple nature reserves and the basin of Lake Victoria, displacing households in Uganda and Tanzania across the stretch of the 1450km pipeline....
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Private equity group snapped up $1.1bn of assets as it took advantage of crisis triggered by government’s mini-Budget
...And finally To the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery, where the tremendous touring Donatello retrospective has arrived in London — the UK’s first show ever devoted to the artist....
...But picture, from Echo Park to Victoria Park, the truest urban villages. How many are car-less? We have, remember, lived through more than one kind of “energy crisis” in recent years....
...LV, aka mutual Liverpool Victoria, has named insurer Bupa’s UK and global markets head David Hynam as chief executive....
...Their association with mourning came from Queen Victoria, who eschewed coloured gems after Prince Albert’s death, so their prevalence could be read as a hard pivot away from bling....
...Straightforward marital misery, like Napoleon’s neglect of his Empress Josephine, is the least of it....
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...Additional reporting by Josephine Cumbo...
...A year ago Victoria’s Secret looked like a lost cause. The lingerie brand, best known for its racy runway shows, was plagued by image problems and sliding sales....
...Victoria’s Secret net sales nearly doubled to $1.6bn in the first quarter of the year compared with $893m during the same period in 2020....
Minister calls for crackdown following multiple fraud bids via Google and other popular sites
...Victoria Miro has a new painting by the Iran-born Ali Banisadr, “The Changing Past” (2021), that charts how, throughout history, cultures have toppled to accommodate new beliefs....
...He works with “virtually every British [luxury] brand”, including Pyo, Stella McCartney and Victoria Beckham....
...Potential bidders could include Next, which recently acquired the UK business of Victoria’s Secret out of administration, and Boohoo, which bought the Karen Millen and Oasis brands....
...Victoria’s Secret has struggled to adapt....
...Meanwhile, debt financing dried up, shares in Blackstone, Apollo, Carlyle and KKR tumbled, pre-crisis deals for Amex’s business travel unit and Victoria’s Secret were called off, and the hit to portfolio...
...L Brands said that it would now seek to separate Victoria’s Secret from Bath and Body Works, the company’s other primary retail chain....
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