Hints and tips:
...I ask if, in terms of leadership, he looks at United’s legendary former manager Sir Alex Ferguson as an example. “Definitely,” he says....
...CRH’s decision echoes that of Ferguson, the plumbing and heating supplier formerly known as Wolseley, which last year moved its primary listing to the US....
...Sir Alex Ferguson, the team’s legendary former manager, also became a fan. “He’s the most passionate person we’ve ever known about wine,” Isabel said....
...The highest price paid was £51.5mn (£59.4mn with fees; est £45mn, guaranteed), for René Magritte’s surrealist showstopper “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s on March 2, a record for the artist....
...She began her powerful 2016 canvas, “Conjured Parts (eye), Ferguson,” with a photograph from the protests that followed the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri: a man with his arms in the...
...The best gift I’ve received recently is a series of beautifully evocative photographs by the artist Julie Brook, inspired by the land and sea when she was living on Jura....
...The evening’s top seller was René Magritte’s “Le seize septembre” (1957) which sold for $17m ($19.6m with fees), comfortably ahead of its $7m-$10m estimate....
...Julie Gauthier has moved to Stonehage Fleming as business development officer for Switzerland, a new role for the $55bn multifamily office....
...Mr Hoogers, who was previously chief of Zilveren Kruis, the Dutch health insurance company, succeeds René van de Kieft who is leaving MN....
...And though we hear snatches of Puccini’s music throughout, Hwang and director Julie Taymor have no poetry of their own to redeem that silliness....
...Even if the music were awful, René Jacobs would surely make it sound superb. Nobody in today’s music world is better at making silk purses from sow’s ears....
...At Chicago Booth, Julie Morton, associate dean of career services, reports that student interest in the financial sector remains high, with more than 40 per cent of Booth graduates taking their first job...
...Additional reporting by Julie Zhu @AsiaNewsDemetri dimi@ft.com...
...Even so, I doubt that Sir Alex Ferguson in all his illustrious career ever uttered the words, “We were lucky last week, they were pissed and wearing stilettos.”...
...It’s where René Redzepi [head chef and co-owner of the Copenhagen restaurant Noma] ate when he was in town.”...
...René Parmantier, chief executive of Close Brothers Seydler Bank, a mid-cap adviser in Frankfurt, says: “Our IPO pipeline looks good....
...Noma Cookbook: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine, by René Redzepi, Phaidon RRP£35 Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, soared to the top of the San Pellegrino 50 Best Restaurants league this year....
...But Mr Ferguson himself admits the outlook is not just gloomy but unknowable....
...Lynne Ferguson worries that the industry remains unregulated and “cowboy-led”....
...Manchester United let him join Real Madrid in 2003 because his celebrity irked Alex Ferguson, United’s manager....
...Julie Walters, actress. Helen Weir, group finance director, Lloyds TSB, the bank. Philip Williamson, former chief executive, Nationwide Building Society....
...Montpellier has René Koering, France’s only real music baron, whose past responsibilities at French Radio have left him with a fat address book....
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