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...By then, Apollo had grown to become one of the biggest private equity groups on Wall Street, owning billions of dollars’ worth of assets crucial to the operations of name-brand companies....
...Lifelike Capital [ridiculously minimalist website award winner] . . . ....
...“Amazon, not surprisingly, is going through one of their biggest investment cycles to keep up,” said Mr Squali at Truist....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Cosmetics brands are struggling, as are those companies that sell food and drinks to restaurants and canteens: Danone this month outlined plans to overhaul its management after revenues fell more than expected...
...Mr Garnier gave a particularly damning review of the poorly implemented ‘ONE Kingfisher’, disagreeing with the previous management’s view....
...He left the group in 2005 after disagreements with its management, to focus instead on real estate investing....
...Five years ago, Mr Hefner took the company private with Rizvi Traverse Management, an investment group, for $207m....
...“More brands are looking to reach out to the middle-class newspaper readers in India, which is a boost for newspaper advertising revenue,” added PwC’s Mr Wilkinson....
...either fast fashion companies, such as H&M and Forever 21, or groups with strong brands such as Nike....
...Over time, the two rivals’ strategies have converged: “Due to fast growth and rapidly rising product volume demand, also as a risk-management measure to diversify sourcing risk, both brands have crossed...
...The group’s most recent acquisition was in Italy, where it bought Betty Blue, a Bologna-based fashion designer that operates under the Elisabetta Franchi and Betty Blue brands....
...Mr Robinov was the link with some of the studio’s most important filmmakers, sticking with Ben Affleck after a fallow period (he would eventually direct last year’s Oscar winner Argo for the studio)....
...A winner of 19 trophies and 115 England caps, Mr Beckham said he was “genuinely excited about what lies ahead.”...
...The current Mr Agnelli, now 37, inhabits a surprisingly modest office in the club’s mansion smack in the middle of Turin....
...We see attractive risk/reward now on an inexpensive valuation, favourable currency, and new brand/product benefits to 2013 EPS,” wrote Mr Chen in a note to clients....
...Piedmont, Mr Lewis’s investment vehicle, is circling Mitchells & Butlers, the pub and restaurant group whose brands includes Brown’s, All Bar One and Toby Carvery, with a lowball approach of 230p a share...
...Frida Giannini, the creative director of Gucci, and Patrizio di Marco, the chief executive, are in the ornate restaurant of the George V hotel in Paris, posing for a portrait. They look uncomfortable....
...Mr Enskat says this confirms a trend towards “blockbuster products and an accelerating winner-takes-all phenomenon in the global asset management industry since the financial crisis”....
....), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund. He earned a BA in business administration from Ottawa University....
...So we thought: ‘We need to build a brand, and not do it by beating rivals on keyword marketing [to attract internet searches].’ ” Instead, says Mr Bharara, they focused on developing “killer” backroom logistics...
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Will the chairman of luxury goods brands group Richemont Johann Rupert turn to a graduate of his alma mater University of Stellenbosch to replace Piet Beyers on the British American Tobacco board?...
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