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Water scarcity
How Europe’s water supplies turned to ‘gold dust’
...Hector Llorente, who grows wheat as part of a co-operative in León, Spain, may have one solution....
August 27, 2023
Europe Express
Europe’s troubled centre-right flirts with hardline partners Premium content
...Vox would be a junior partner to the mainstream centre-right People’s party, which already governs with it in the region of Castile-León, north of Madrid....
March 11, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT SeriesIcons only – the HTSI autumn arts special 2023
What happens when an arts icon dies?
...Control of the Hendrix estate, currently estimated to be worth around $175mn, was passed to Janie after Al’s death in 2002, a decision that was unsuccessfully contested by Hendrix’s brother Leon in a legal...
September 22, 2023
News in-depthMexico
Mexico’s president proposes ban on beer brewing as drought intensifies
...However, Aldo Iván Ramírez, an engineering professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey who worked on the state government’s recent water plan, said industry consumed less than 5 per cent of water in Nuevo León...
August 13, 2022
Due Diligence
The lawyer trying to defeat Elon Musk Premium content
...A British billionaire’s crypto bets laid bare British hedge fund titan Alan Howard has spent the past few years branching out into crypto land....
July 19, 2022
Due Diligence
The private equity tycoon next door Premium content
...Leon Black will have to do. The New York billionaire has agreed to buy 93 Eaton Square for £21m, people familiar with the matter told the FT....
November 19, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Visual Arts
Postwar Modern at the Barbican — rebirth of a nation
...The abstract painters included instead — Alan Davie, Gillian Ayres — are less original and much less fun....
March 3, 2022
HTSI
Lucky strikes: the art of the matchbox
...Early examples understandably fire up some collectors, including Alan Downer, a member of the British Matchbox Label and Bookmatch Society and the editor of its magazine, Match Label News, who started saving...
October 1, 2021
Tefaf Online 2021
Words of wisdom in the world of the rare-book collectors
...An unnamed buyer, for example, spent just over $1m on codebreaker Alan Turing’s notebook in 2015. Nevertheless, he adds, collectors tend to buy what they like....
September 3, 2021
ObituarySamuel Brittan
Samuel Brittan, economics editor, 1933-2020
...His younger brother, Leon, went on to serve as a senior Conservative minister and EU commissioner. As a child, Samuel was, in his own description, “precocious, without being a prodigy”....
October 12, 2020
News in-depthSupply chains
Global ports grapple with backlog from Suez Canal blockage
...“The bottom line is we’re soldiering on,” said Leon Willems of the Rotterdam Port Authority. “Ships would have to wait longer to discharge their cargo but it’s not a crisis.”...
April 26, 2021
News in-depthThe Big Read
The post-Covid consumer: is back-to-basics shopping here to stay?
...Alan Jope, chief executive of Unilever, says most of the categories in which the group operates normally see growth rates of between 2 and 5 per cent....
November 1, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Pulitzer-winning A Soldier’s Play vividly explores the toll of racism
...It’s a particularly challenging role that yields an emotionally textured performance from David Alan Grier, who makes Waters seem at once loathsome and pathetic....
January 22, 2020
Due Diligence
How Apollo is cleaning up at its biggest client Athene Premium content
...This has been a sweet deal for the private equity firm founded by Leon Black, pictured above, which now counts Athene as its biggest client....
October 30, 2019
Holly Peterson
Bernie and the billionaires
...Steve Schwarzman and Leon Black still have to show up for work every day. Mike doesn’t.”...
February 27, 2020
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
Lex
Best of Lex: your weekly round-up Premium content
...Lex felt that the main beneficiaries were founders such as Leon Black, Henry Kravitz and Stephen Schwarzman. Ocado is another group dealing with an accounting shift, this time imposed upon it....
February 8, 2019
ReviewBusiness books
FT business books of the month: November edition
...However, in Winning and Not Fighting, John Vincent, the co-founder of food chain Leon, and Julian Hitch, a master of Wing Tsun, set out to change the way people think about and achieve success using Wing...
November 12, 2019
FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024
‘Bad Blood’ wins the FT and McKinsey Business Book of 2018
...At the same ceremony, Andrew Leon Hanna collected the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for the best proposal for a business book by an author aged under 35....
November 12, 2018
Women in 2018: the change makers
Football pundit Alex Scott: ‘Ian Wright was my hero. Now I talk on TV with him’
...Sitting alongside the likes of Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Rio Ferdinand, Scott won praise for her thoughtful and rigorous approach....
December 6, 2018
Due Diligence
The story of how Elliott seized control of AC Milan Premium content
...Smart Reads Brunswick Group bungle Sir Alan Parker set his sights on McKinsey and Goldman Sachs when building his public relations firm into a leader in the industry....
July 17, 2018
Due Diligence
PE: Old and in the way? Premium content
...Alan Patricof, the octogenarian former boss at Apax, has a novel answer: now (but with a major caveat)....
May 18, 2017
Markets InsightMichael Mackenzie
Corporate bondholders heighten market risk
...In recent months, Alan Greenspan has warned about lofty valuations for bonds, while this week Leon Cooperman opined that debt looks like a bubble....
September 14, 2017
News in-depthUS politics & policy
Did Trump break the law: the case for and against
...But special prosecutor Leon Jaworski had concluded that a sitting president could not be indicted....
June 9, 2017
Letter
Axa would win a health achievement award in US
...Professor Alan Blum MD Gerald Leon Wallace MD Department of Family Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa, AL, US...
May 24, 2016
European companies
Axa to ditch its €1.7bn investments in tobacco shares and bonds
...Letter in response to this article: Axa would win a health achievement award in US / From Professor Alan Blum MD and Gerald Leon Wallace MD...
May 22, 2016

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