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...In the reverse, WWE made $130mn from consumer products such as toys; UFC’s equivalent was just $55mn....
...His producer credits last year included Lamborghini — The Man Behind The Legend, Johnny Puff: Secret Mission, and Tell It Like A Woman (Oscar-nominated in the best original song category)....
...Among the auto tech companies that have gone public this year, few have sold a single product....
...One late summer afternoon in 2011, railroad turnround legend Hunter Harrison and Bill Ackman lunched at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art....
...The legend goes that Bernard Madoff — yes, the guy who, separately, ran a huge Ponzi scheme — pioneered the practice. The difference is that retail brokers have to disclose it....
...London also does not quite have the hedge fund industry “legends” that the US has....
...Job moves Danske Bank has fired Jesper Nielsen over a mis-selling scandal of a wealth management product....
...The strategy set by Mr Flannery, and continued by Mr Culp, has been to focus on providing software to support GE’s core industrial products such as aero engines and gas turbines for power generation, and...
...For more than 70 years ATL Aero has been making sure that aircraft parts meet safety and design standards....
...Rolls-Royce, the world’s second-biggest maker of aero engines, generates 52 per cent of its civil aircraft revenue from after-sales services....
...Warren East, the aero-engine maker’s new chief executive, had been in the post for just two working days when he had to deliver another dose of disappointment to investors who have lived through three prior...
...Back in 2013, Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek announced, with evident satisfaction, that he had signed arena-rock legends Led Zeppelin to an exclusive streaming contract....
...Last summer, Dr Dre travelled to Beijing with basketball star Lebron James to promote his products in the world’s most populous country....
...Your cloud products are growing at 50 per cent and produce $1bn a year in revenue. Those integrated hardware/software products are growing at 45 per cent. We love that stuff – we really do....
...“R&R is a market-leading company with a strong portfolio of innovative products and excellent potential to expand in the UK and internationally,” said Colm O’Sullivan, PAI partner in the UK....
...“If he can find a business partner to bring new products to market, he is likely to do fairly well. He just has to find a business partner willing to sleep in that bed.”...
...As well as own label ice cream for supermarkets such as Tesco, Carrefour and Aldi, the company makes Nestlé brands, – including Kit Kat, Aero and Fab – Lyons Maid and Thorntons and distributes Mars products...
...“That’s the legend of Poundland,” he says. “People talk about it.”...
...He has already commissioned new programmes such as Camelot, a new take on the Arthurian legend, and struck a deal with the BBC to co-produce the next series of the Dr Who spin-off Torchwood....
...Last year Rolls-Royce knocked arch-rival GE Aircraft Engines of the US off top spot in the civil aero-engine market for the first time....
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