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...Simone Brewster’s Spirit of Place One of the major projects of the design festival is a collaboration between artist and designer Simone Brewster and Amorim, the world’s largest cork producer....
...“During my short time back on the Amigo board, I have witnessed a company committing slow motion suicide, whilst playing out the script of Brewster’s Millions,” writes James Benamor, the company’s 60.6 per...
...leo.lewis@ft.com...
...The answer most now suspect is that the BoJ will not feel obliged to follow the Brewster script if the market remains around these 21 year highs....
...(BBC, FT) Video of the day Bank of Japan and ‘Brewster’s Millions’ Leo Lewis asks whether the central bank has talked itself into the same comedy script as the movie with its exchange traded fund buying...
...The last two men to beat him, Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster, were similar in style to Haye, but Haye is much quicker.”...
...Glass Lewis gave Citigroup an “F” grade for its pay practices. It said: “It paid more than its peers, but performed worse than its peers”....
...Three proxy advisers – Glass Lewis, RiskMetrics and Egan Jones – have recommended that shareholders vote against re-electing Mr Lewis....
...Analysts criticised Ken Lewis, BofA’s chief executive, for not pricing the offering as soon as it was announced on Monday, rather than leaving the bank’s share price to take a battering along with other...
...“Both economic and financial market conditions have changed significantly in the past two months,” Mr Lewis said....
...Market turbulence and economic uncertainty would result in lower than normal earnings into 2009, and the bank would also need to provide liquidity to commercial and retail customers, Mr Lewis said....
...Glass Lewis yesterday recommended shareholders to vote against six of the 11 Morgan Stanley directors at the company’s annual meeting on April 8....
...Since that day, shares in Bear Stearns have dived from $88.80 per share to $3.67 on Monday and Mr Lewis has lost $981m (€624m, £490m) as a result of his 9.36 per cent stake in the bank....
...However, it takes a strong stance on corporate governance, and last year bought the US proxy firm Glass Lewis....
...The ruling, by Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York two weeks ago, comes amid rising concern from US companies and institutional investors that the use of derivatives in building company stakes has broken the...
...Two other shareholder advisory firms, Glass Lewis and Proxy Governance, have backed Mr Mack....
...The comment, which Mr Lewis later said he regretted, came after BofA reported a 32 per cent drop in third-quarter income following big trading losses....
...Last year, it bought Glass Lewis, the US-based proxy adviser firm, and half of the Thomas More office complex in the UK....
...The spokeswoman said there would be complete separation between Ontario Teacher’s corporate governance practices and Glass Lewis....
...Rahman’s promoter, Don King, has agreements with the WBA’s Ruiz, the International Boxing Federation’s Chris Byrd and Lamon Brewster of the World Boxing Organisation....
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