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...Quite literally so, as the six-day event was graced with appearances from plenty of A-list actors, including Rosamund Pike at Molly Goddard, Kristin Scott Thomas at Erdem, and Minnie Driver at JW Anderson...
...According to Thomas Chauvet, head of luxury goods equity research at Citi, “Thailand has been a leading jewellery design and manufacturing hub for over two decades”....
...Under Clarence Thomas, this brand of conservatism will shape the court for decades to come, writes Jill Abramson, author and former New York Times executive editor....
...But who is spending on what — and where — looks quite different from 2019, says Thomas Chauvet, head of luxury goods research at Citi....
...Design writers Thijs Demeulemeester and Bert Voet’s recent book Carchitecture, with photography by Thomas De Bruyne, explores the historical parallels between trends in architectural styles and car design...
...“We need to be more sustainable, and consider [attracting] more prosperous visitors in future,” says Rita Marques, Portugal’s tourism minister....
...Wirecard appointed KPMG to conduct a special audit it said would clear it, and a new chairman, Thomas Eichelmann, to bring new oversight....
...“It is like the engine in a car,” says Thomas Chauvet, luxury analyst at Citigroup. “Many cars contain engines that were actually manufactured by competitors.”...
...Audi Sector: AUTOs / HQ: Ingolstadt, Germany Key stat: €4.6bn — Audi’s operating profit in 2019, the largest of VW’s 12 marques....
...That is currently Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, the former chief executive who saved the toymaker after his appointment in 2004 and now also heads the Lego Brand Group, exploring new possibilities for the marque...
...Aston Martin was caught up in the recent declines among European carmakers with traders noting a negative read-through from poor numbers on Thursday from Fiat’s Maserati marque....
...There have been reports that he may return to the group to run Audi, whose current boss Rupert Stadler is under pressure due to his handling of the diesel scandal at VW’s premium marque....
...The new business will be run by Volvo’s design chief Thomas Ingenlath, with Volvo’s head of communications Jonathan Goodman becoming chief operating officer....
...Thomas Röttgermann, the managing director of Wolfsburg, says that 16 per cent of the club’s sponsorship revenues already come from outside Germany, the bulk of that from China....
...Lookers’ chief executive, Andy Bruce, said: We are delighted to welcome the Knights team to the Group and are excited to be adding the iconic brands of BMW and MINI to our list of premium marques, offering...
...“As customers’ needs change, so does the automobile business model,” said Thomas Sedran, head of group strategy at VW Group....
...A 1967 Ferrari 275 Spider, identical to the one driven by the actor in The Thomas Crown Affair went for a speedy $27.5m in 2013....
...However Britons continued to lust after brand new Audis, pushing new registrations of the upmarket marque 1.4 per cent higher year on year....
...Risk taking To appreciate the scale of Volvo’s revival you need to go back to 2010 and Geely’s $1.8bn takeover of the lossmaking Swedish marque....
...Perhaps encouraged by the building boom in London at the time, they teamed up with architect Thomas Allason to plot a design so ambitious it required an act of parliament to proceed....
...More than 90 per cent are exported beyond the region, says Ms Thomas....
...Shares in VW, BMW and Daimler, owner of the Mercedes-Benz marque, were each down less than 1 per cent in late afternoon Frankfurt trading. Nokia shares were down 2 per cent in Helsinki....
...Simon Sproule, head of marketing at British luxury marque Aston Martin, says the industry’s rush into content is more about generating brand awareness....
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