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...Floch was involved in the $1.2bn sale of shoemaker Jimmy Choo from European investment fund JAB to Michael Kors....
...Until, that is, he discovers that shoemakers are both highly prized by the ladies and can get enviably close to them. So he poses as a Dutch shoemaker....
...The listing values the luxury shoemaker at £545.6m....
...Buying the Lloyds business was regarded by former Co-op bosses as a quick fix for the bank’s weaknesses....
...Clarks: Made to Last: The Story of Britain’s Best-Known Shoe Firm, by Mark Palmer, Profile, RRP£20, 398 pages The name and logo of Clarks, the shoemaker, have nostalgic resonance for almost all Britons....
...From its roots as a grocery store founded by 28 weavers, joiners and shoemakers in Rochdale, a textile-making town in the northwest of England, the Co-op Group has expanded to a £13.5bn business spanning...
...He was born Boris Fridland in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, on September 28 1900, second son of a shoemaker: later, becoming aware of the anti-Semitism that surrounded him, he changed his name to the more...
...He notes that a local shoemaker was allowed to fail....
...His father, Vissarion Djugashvili, was a shoemaker who flourished for a time in the Georgian provincial city of Gori, but drank away his money and vented his rage on his wife and only child....
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