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...Eventually the CBS group ended up in the hands of media company Hachette Filipacchi, which appointed Pecker as president of the division in 1990....
...Kendall fails in his coup, so teams up with a hedge fund and a rival media group to mount a hostile takeover....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...Oyo, the SoftBank-backed Indian start-up is merging its hotel-booking and apartment-rental operations in Japan....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...She first picked up the violin aged four, when her older sister, Stephanie — now violinist for the pop group Clean Bandit — decided she wanted to learn....
...Chrissie Hynde, singer for The Pretenders rock group, this week slammed a neighbouring block under construction as a “monstrosity” that spoiled the view of the V&A Dundee....
...In 2020, Accor Hotel Group is due to open the 150-bed, four-star Le Meztiva in town, while the French Sezz group, best known for its swanky five-star hotel in St Tropez, plans to open L’Hôtel Le Comte Capré...
...The Obama Foundation (which received $1m in 2018) in Chicago is another major client, as is Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts....
...Bill Bensley, its designer, says he was inspired by the 1967 visit of Jackie Kennedy, the former US first lady, and tried to re-create the kind of camping experience she might have had when, hosted by King...
...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...The crackdown on corruption that led to some of the kingdom’s top businessmen being held in the Ritz-Carlton hotel was part of the reason, she says....
...big farm groups....
...On spotting John McCaw in the lobby of the George V hotel in Paris, Donald Pels cracked a smile....
...Talking over breakfast in a New York hotel, he still looks like the archetypal tech entrepreneur: focused and somewhat intense, wearing a black polo shirt and charcoal V-neck....
...Micros provides point-of-sale devices (card readers and the like) as well as software (mostly the licensed kind) to restaurants and hotels....
...It will be an early focus for Hertz’s new chief financial officer, Tom Kennedy, formerly of hotels group Hilton Worldwide, who joined in December....
...Private equity groups Kennedy Wilson, Blackstone, Lone Star and Apollo have been active in the market, buying flagship properties and portfolios of property loans....
...Space was where we were all going to live and work – Moon bases and hotels, everything in Stanley Kubrick’s futuristic 2001: A Space Odyssey....
...Forget the great divides of liberals v conservatives, vegetarians v carnivores, Gucci people v Hermès people....
...Azerbaijan The Four Seasons group has opened its first hotel in the former USSR, a 171-room Beaux- Arts-style property in Baku, the Azeri capital....
...In August, Lloyds sold Kennedy Wilson, the US private equity group, and Deutsche Bank a €360m portfolio of non-performing Irish property loans at a discount of almost 90 per cent....
...The Lee family would therefore have to choose between yielding influence to other shareholders of Samsung Electronics (as well as those of Samsung C&T, the trading and construction company, and the Hotel...
...Shahien Nasiripour, in the FT’s DC bureau, says the victory is significant for Ms Warren as she prepares to fill Ted Kennedy’s former seat: “Elizabeth Warren dreamt up the Consumer Financial Protection...
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