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...“I’m sure there were ladies of the house who wanted to get to grips with it all, but after a while thought, ‘Crikey!’...
...“If you have a global application, one, aspirationally is there something you might like to do, and two, defensively, what do I need to do to make sure I’m as positioned as I can be?...
...“I’m very happy that I’ve been able to show people what’s happening,” he said at a press conference at the end of the site visit in May....
...Lucky Strikes maker British American Tobacco has promoted Luciano Comin as its first director of “combustibles”, as it now calls cigarettes. Lex has more....
...The investigation also uncovered that Caner was paid €12.6mn for undocumented “advisory services” in two M&A transactions, while Adler also bought some of Aggregate’s bonds in an undisclosed transaction....
...In contrast, Donnet warned in December that it would be “risky” to focus a growth plan on M&A which “by definition is the only thing that cannot be planned”....
...A lack of ambition on M&A was one of the main criticisms put forward by the Generali rebels of the current management’s approach....
...I’m flat broke.” Follmann Chemie ‘We risk losing big parts of our industry, and when it’s gone, it’s gone.’ The crisis has left Follmann feeling frustrated....
...I’m excited to see how it becomes part of the local culture and legacy.”...
...I’m not attached to objects to that extent. What is the greatest challenge of our time?...
...In contrast, Donnet’s supporters point to the group’s record operating profits of €5.9bn last year and the perils of relying on M&A....
...“We as investors have a fiduciary duty to our limited partners . . . and I’m not quite sure how that’s happening when you’re not on the board.”...
...I’m crazy about Greece....
...audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: Why companies could soon pay for climate change Topher Forhecz A few hundred miles north of Peru’s capital of Lima, lives a farmer named Saúl Luciano...
...“I’m sure it will be a competition that will delight the entire Brazilian population”, he said. This week Brazil’s supreme court rejected attempts to bar the country from hosting the Copa America....
...“Great numbers of the people of the world have visited and admired Hyde Park,” wrote the American author George M Towle in 1875. “There is no public ground in Europe more interesting or suggestive.”...
...“Obviously I’m doing my work here… and I love the idea that one day there’ll be some kind of mega Hollywood film project, and the next there’ll be a bunch of kids trying something....
...“That attitude is rare to find,” says landscape designer Luciano Giubbilei....
...“They are shooting themselves in the foot,” said Luciano Laspina, an economist and a leading opposition lawmaker....
...I’m looking at you Black Widow. ★★★☆☆ Documentaries about great men usually follow a familiar three-act path: rise, fall from grace, rehabilitation....
...“That’s when I’m desperate, when I think about all of those things we are giving up. We are only surviving, not living,” she said....
...“I’m very serious about studying and knowing about what it is I’m singing,” she said once, summing up what performing meant to her. “And I’m afraid I do have an awful lot to say.”...
...I’m also enjoying Luciano Giubbilei’s book about gardens. I heard him speak recently at At The Chapel, a wonderful restaurant and hub of the local community in nearby Bruton....
...Spain’s Zara and Sweden’s H&M now dominate what should have been natural ground for Benetton because the Italian company’s founder failed to see the threat from fast fashion....
...Another member, Luciano Floridi, head of ethics at Oxford university’s internet institute, questioned the make-up of the board even more directly, though he did not resign....
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