Hints and tips:
...Donatella Versace sold the family catwalk brand to Michael Kors of the US last month for $2.1bn....
...The Supreme Court will hear a similar case in February involving a plumber who claims he has been wrongly classified as an “independent contractor” by the plumbing company Pimlico Plumbers....
...It also plans to add SharkBite and AO Smith, known for their plumbing fittings and residential water heaters respectively....
...There is a similar confusion in the debate about Hermes, a company that uses self-employed contractors to deliver packages....
...meeting will not focus on any of the attention-grabbing incidents such as the 2010 flash crash, the rogue algorithm at Knight Capital and numerous technology outages but an arcane part of the market’s plumbing...
...Shares of Angie’s List, the contractor and plumbing review site, tumbled 19 per cent to $8.21 after the company forecast third quarter sales as much as 7 per cent below consensus expectations....
...But analysts were concerned by weak plumbing sales and the sell-off spread to homebuilders, whose share prices have been tightly correlated with Masco in 2012....
...that they were suggesting – much to the contractors’ regret....
...Customers continued to focus spending on items such as plumbing and roofing repairs, or small flooring or bathroom improvements, rather than large discretionary projects....
...Sales to professional contractors also remained subdued during the fourth quarter, which Mr Niblock suggested reflected the shift to DIY during the recession....
...Yorkshire Fittings (YF), the UK market leader in the manufacture of fittings and valves for the plumbing industry, and 600 Group, the UK’s biggest machine tool maker, are reminders that there are some traditional...
...But in the west, Silicon Valley was plumbing new lows, at least in terms of its reputation....
...Wolseley, the plumbing and building materials group, was in focus on Tuesday as its shares rallied from recent lows....
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