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...In 2012, Bill Ackman convinced 3G Capital to merge with Justice Holdings, a UK special purpose acquisition company, sponsored by the hedge fund manager, Martin Franklin and Nicolas Berggruen....
...There’s this phenomenon that got its name in early VR days: gorilla arm [fatigue from holding a device in the vertical plane]. You’re just not strong enough to do that. It gets tiring after a while....
...The index rebounded yesterday, gaining 5.2 per cent, amid news that Daily Journal Corp increased its stake in Alibaba Group Holding by 83 per cent last quarter....
...They include a profitable investment in the Beats headphone brand, property holdings in Manhattan’s Tribeca district, and restaurants on Long Island in New York state....
...Last month it acquired the restaurant chains Ask and Zizzi in a £70m prepack administration deal that led to 1,200 job losses....
...Mr Harris juggled sports holdings that include a controlling stake in the Philadelphia 76ers basketball franchise and London’s Crystal Palace football club....
...Delight Holdings, among a handful of other investments, owns more than four dozen restaurants across the Wendy’s and Taco Bell banners in Virginia, Indiana and Michigan....
...The trust is a corporation owned by DJT Holdings LLC — that is, Donald J Trump. Mr Trump appears to owe the money to himself....
...Just as creatively, they set up life insurance company Athene Holding, which attracts billions of dollars of life insurance premiums to provide some of the fuel for this $200bn credit machine....
...(FT) The Naked Chef Two decades after Jamie Oliver burst on to TV screens as a young chef with a taste for popular food culture, the British cook looks back on the fall of his restaurant empire and his...
...He went to London and worked for the Ladbrokes betting parlours — a chain with big real-estate holdings — dabbled in Hollywood and then earned an MBA from UCLA in 1992....
...A human-sounding robot phoned to book a table at a restaurant, carrying on an extended conversation without the person on the other end realising they were talking to a machine....
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...Hopping on a bike, ordering a meal from a huge range of restaurants, paying for utilities, transferring money to friends — all can be done at the touch of a button....
...About 21 per cent of retail and restaurant companies are now on S&P’s “distressed” list, making it the most distressed US sector. Telecommunications was second, with 15.5 per cent....
...KFC and Pizza Hut have more than 7,200 restaurants in the country. Primavera will invest $410m and Ant Financial will invest $50m, Yum said....
...by Groupe Bertrand would “significantly accelerate” the growth of Burger King restaurants in France....
...as well as its investment in the Alon development site in Las Vegas, its 20 per cent holding in restaurant chain Nobu, its 50 per cent holding in Aspers casino and its investment in Caesars....
...Manufacturers surprisingly added the most jobs since August 2013, while employers in retail added 58,000 jobs and restaurants increased headcounts by 47,000....
...In July, Beijing-based buyout investor Hony Capital snapped up UK restaurant chain PizzaExpress for £900m....
...From the Washington Post’s story on Lowery’s arrest: He and other reporters were working in a McDonald’s in Ferguson when about half a dozen police officers came into the restaurant, Lowery said....
...McDonald’s Japan has pulled its full-year profit guidance on the back of falling sales, after some of its 3,200 restaurants were forced to scratch chicken nuggets off the menu in the wake of a food scandal...
...Gladys Balsillie, who died in 1987, began her career as a pilot before opening a popular restaurant and music venue, the Swinging Gate....
...Geithner has chosen the restaurant. He knows Indian food well, having lived there as a child for five years....
...Only the Brave, Costume National, Eataly – the new restaurant of Michelin starred chef Andrea Berton – and LVMH’s Sephora are among those brands already signed up to move into the area....
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