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...At €10bn, it would have an enterprise value-to-ebitda multiple far below rivals such as L’Oréal. In the battle for Chinese ecommerce, Alibaba is struggling to knock Temu from the top spot....
...Four have adopted pro-ESG laws, according to the K&L Gates law firm....
...It recalls the previous two records from the west African supergroup which were produced by Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, best known for his work with Kinshasa noise band Mbongwana Star....
...Argylle himself is an international smoothie and master spy, played by Henry Cavill with a bog-brush haircut and a Roger Moore smirk....
...Sesto Quatrini conducts at sprightly speeds. ★★★★☆ ‘L’elisir d’amore’ to October 10, roh.org.uk...
...Rep Earl L Carter You know about the milk crate. You know about the blackout challenge. You know about the NyQuil chicken challenge....
...It’s as if Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti have collaborated on dinner....
...jennifer.hughes@ft.com...
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
...The dish of apples — mela — is close to melos (melody), the trompe l’oeil fly — musca — alights on another score, musica....
...“Prudential is focused on Asia and L&G is a social investor. What’s your one-sentence mission statement?” I asked, expecting a slick response. The man coughed. He took a drink of water....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...Company insider Daniel Moore will step in as interim finance head. Abrdn has named Jason Windsor as its new finance chief and an executive director. He was previously CFO of Aviva....
...For the exhibition finale, I would have preferred a reimagining of the more theatrical “L’Atteso” (2018), for which he filled Turin’s OGR arts centre with abandoned cars and vans....
...“I just want Sally to write about what she wants to write about,” says Charlotte Moore, chief content officer of the BBC. That doors are opening for her in an era of big budgets is thrilling....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...Darren Hughes, chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society, a campaign organisation, said the Lords had become a “bloated institution”....
...Richard Moore, chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, warned in November that China was now the “single greatest priority” for his agency....
...Moore managed to reach Belgium via the Eurostar train that also passes through France, and left his car with family in the UK....
...It’s concerned about links between the foundation and a company controlled by Moore’s daughter....
...scraps of notes (“the brutality of fact”, “highly controlled chaos”) — around the twisted “Study for a Portrait of John Edwards” in Francis Bacon’s studio faces careful order and tactile temptation in Henry Moore...
...Last week Moore wrote of the “hounding” of the former environment secretary, a high-profile Brexiter....
...Separately, Pakistan’s military authorities reported that Richard Moore, chief of the UK foreign intelligence service SIS, travelled to Islamabad last week for talks with General Qamar Javed Bajwa, army...
...Several artists, including some well-known names, are considering legal action against the London-based curator and artist, Ben Moore....
...You forget it exists even as you watch, a tossed-off sequel to a throwaway action comedy original (directed by Patrick Hughes)....
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