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...It is likely to use Hunter Douglas, the world’s largest maker of window coverings, which it acquired recently at a $7.1bn valuation, as a vehicle to buy more assets in the sector....
...3G Capital has acquired a majority stake in Hunter Douglas, the Dutch manufacturer of window coverings and architectural products, at a valuation of $7.1bn, in the first major transaction for the deal-hungry...
...The company sells supplemental insurance covering, for example, disability and critical illness. Its shares jumped 5 per cent on news of Japan Post’s proposed investment....
...“I’ve been trying to reach every household via at least WhatsApp,” says Punit Agarwal, the BJP’s social media co-ordinator for the Delhi area....
...It was an exhilarating start to more than six years in California covering the tech industry. But while it was a brilliant piece of theatre, it also turned out to be a distraction....
...The “Excellence Class” has just 20 seats per carriage (compared with 48 in second), all next to a window, and passengers are served multi-course lunches and afternoon tea....
...Amazon’s 1-Click checkout system, Viagra, the telephone, the lightbulb, Windows software, the Dyson vacuum cleaner, a novel windsurf board, Lego toy bricks, the artificial heart, cat’s eye road reflectors...
..., and Windows; and NetCruiser, which will connect Windows users to the San Jose-based Netcom Internet ac- cess server....
...AFGlobal is suing Federal Insurance and Chubb, its parent company, seeking more than $1m for allegedly breaching its contract by not covering the claim. Chubb has declined to comment....
...Wall Street is also hoping for a stabilisation in the printer supplies business, which provides the bulk of the profits at the new HP Inc, along with a return to growth in PCs later next year as Windows...
...When two people like each other, a chat window opens and hook-up arrangements can begin. The Hollywood-based app has shaken up relationships between young single people....
...He has also forced together three key ministries – covering power, coal and renewables – under a new minister, Piyush Goyal....
...For analysts and journalists covering Nokia, the “burning platform” warning stood out among his more frequent bland utterances....
...He said the high fine reflected the long duration of the cartels and the breadth of co-ordination. Chunghwa of Taiwan won immunity for alerting authorities to the wrongdoing....
...This year there are gilded wooden sculptures, Chinese vases, golden sculpted serpents and golden drapery....
...The trip costs $66,950 per person. www.luxuryworldjettravel.com Chamonix Workers for the Chamonix cable car company have successfully slowed the melting of a glacier by covering it with a 750-metre square...
...It should be a sweet moment, but he is wistful as he compares this crash to covering Wall Street after the dotcom bubble....
...So it is no surprise that reforms covering everything from liquidity to the credit quality and maturity of money market fund portfolios are under consideration....
...Traders put the gains down to short covering, and relief that the companies had moved early in what is likely to be a short and extremely competitive rights issue window....
...“This creates an unprecedented window of opportunity to improve gender balance at the top.”...
...US financial spreads fell over 37bps on average (or ~14%) on the week as thin volumes, short-covering, and a plethora of sentiment-improving news items showed signs of a silver lining....
...The authors of The Decoration of Houses loathed clutter: too many knick-knacks; pictures hung over flowered wall-paper; “superfluous draperies” covering doorways, frightful fire-screens and elaborate hooped...
...Suddenly, there is a commotion: the paper covering one of the skylights has fallen off the ceiling....
...“It’s hard to sell window coverings to homes that aren’t being built,” said Mr Ullman of the fall in home furnishings sales....
...Large, stained-glass windows, backlit for evening events, depict William Shakespeare, William Caxton, St Cecilia, William Tyndale and Archbishop Cranmer....
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