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...At €10bn, it would have an enterprise value-to-ebitda multiple far below rivals such as L’Oréal. In the battle for Chinese ecommerce, Alibaba is struggling to knock Temu from the top spot....
...elaine.moore@ft.com...
...Four have adopted pro-ESG laws, according to the K&L Gates law firm....
...It recalls the previous two records from the west African supergroup which were produced by Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, best known for his work with Kinshasa noise band Mbongwana Star....
...Tattoo artists are particularly in vogue, Moore says, though the tie-ups don’t necessarily mean inking people....
...Argylle himself is an international smoothie and master spy, played by Henry Cavill with a bog-brush haircut and a Roger Moore smirk....
...Bidding starts at £50 for works including Dave Gamble’s polaroids of Andy Warhol’s possessions, abstract works by Mandy El-Sayegh and portraitist Sarah Ball’s close-up study of a face, its eyes looking steadily...
...Rep Earl L Carter You know about the milk crate. You know about the blackout challenge. You know about the NyQuil chicken challenge....
...It’s as if Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti have collaborated on dinner....
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
...Credit Suisse’s former head of equity derivatives strategy Mandy Xu has joined Cboe Global Markets as vice-president and head of derivatives market intelligence....
...The dish of apples — mela — is close to melos (melody), the trompe l’oeil fly — musca — alights on another score, musica....
...“Prudential is focused on Asia and L&G is a social investor. What’s your one-sentence mission statement?” I asked, expecting a slick response. The man coughed. He took a drink of water....
...Company insider Daniel Moore will step in as interim finance head. Abrdn has named Jason Windsor as its new finance chief and an executive director. He was previously CFO of Aviva....
...For the exhibition finale, I would have preferred a reimagining of the more theatrical “L’Atteso” (2018), for which he filled Turin’s OGR arts centre with abandoned cars and vans....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...It is an opulent reinterpretation of a very old accord called a L’Origan, which was first created by Coty in a perfume bearing the same name....
...It’s concerned about links between the foundation and a company controlled by Moore’s daughter....
...scraps of notes (“the brutality of fact”, “highly controlled chaos”) — around the twisted “Study for a Portrait of John Edwards” in Francis Bacon’s studio faces careful order and tactile temptation in Henry Moore...
...Mandy El-Sayegh’s “The Minimum” becomes the event’s first performance-based public art commission, taking place in each of the three London zones, in collaboration with UP Projects....
...Several artists, including some well-known names, are considering legal action against the London-based curator and artist, Ben Moore....
...Professor Dame Henrietta L Moore Founder and DirectorInstitute for Global ProsperityLondon W1, UK...
...Tim Moore Bologna, Italy By recent calculation, I’ve been to more cities in Italy than in any other country outside my own....
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...L’Oréal (France) The world’s biggest cosmetics company saw a boost in online sales in both direct to consumer websites and retailers by improving their ecommerce sites....
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