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...The group does not own or operate gyms itself, but allows members to use in-person sports facilities as well as digital offerings like online classes and personal trainers....
...“We have hundreds of engineers waiting around doing nothing,” said a staffer at one of the companies....
...Listings expected soon in Europe include Permira-backed Golden Goose, the Italian luxury sports shoe brand, and Puig, the Spanish beauty and fashion group behind brands including Charlotte Tilbury....
...As investors recognise sports as an asset class and valuations boom, the deals are becoming increasingly complex. That can only mean one thing: the lawyers are all over it....
...Blavatnik separately owns DAZN, the sport streaming service....
...On the rise are artist agencies, which act more like sports management companies rather than as partners, who share in the upside — and sometimes downside — of their wards....
...What that shows is that big companies have shied away from doing mega deals but smaller acquisitions have gone ahead as they probably posed less of a threat....
...And it is reshaping the way in which investors look at Saudi Arabia, its financial pulling power now luring some who were wary of doing business with Riyadh because of its dire human rights record....
...One thing to start: Diageo will end its business relationship with Sean Combs, known as Diddy, after the businessman and rapper alleged racial discrimination by the drinks group, which it “categorically...
...But is this what employees of Tianyu were doing when they traded as Yabo and sponsored Manchester United? Taro and I contacted as many Tianyu representatives as we could find....
...Carolina Milanesi, founder of The Heart of Tech, a research group, said Apple was “playing to both productivity and work, as well as entertainment, so you think differently about the price point”....
...Raine, which is also a media investor, has been active in sports and football deals — in particular working on the completed Chelsea Football Club transaction as well as the current Manchester United process...
...As a young man in the early 1980s, he ran twice, unsuccessfully, for Congress in Connecticut. In 1983, he founded Aristotle Inc, a technology consultancy that sold voter data to political campaigns....
...Taiwan’s first female PhD in materials science and engineering sees the business she founded, MA-tek, as a technical doctor that diagnoses problems in research, design and production....
...The group said on Tuesday it was “the sole owner of all design rights to existing products as well as previous and new colourways under the partnership”....
...After all, English Premier League clubs have already broken their gross spend record, with a minimum of £1.5bn already committed to buying players, according to Deloitte’s Sports Business Group....
...BT has finalised its long-awaited deal with US media group Warner Bros Discovery to form a joint venture for its sport business, as the UK telecoms group stages a managed exit from sports broadcasting....
...“I have no doubt they just wish all of this would go away, and they could go back to business as usual. Because there is just no obvious way out.”...
...BT reached a deal to form a joint venture for its sports screening business with US media group Warner Bros, although analysts doubt their ability to compete with Comcast’s Sky, the main UK broadcaster of...
...Flutter’s UK and Ireland business, which includes Paddy Power and Sky Bet, makes up roughly a third of the group’s total revenues....
...“It’s not about bringing politics into sports. It’s about culture and empowerment. And what these guys are doing is they are giving voice to under-represented diverse groups in society,” he said....
...Gucci doing something in Roblox, and it is Balenciaga doing something in Fortnite. And it's all these different things that you see every day with fashion....
...In a conventional truck — one with a combustion engine — “flooring it” is frowned upon as doing so can flood the engine with gas. But I’m in a Rivian....
...“There is a natural tension over how to reward people who are doing such important work for the world, when there are also financial realities to what we can afford as a company”, Peretti said....
...He started his music career at the sharp end, as road manager for the rap group Run-DMC in the 1980s....
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