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...But these days, Villa is valued at more than £500mn after Sawiris and Edens agreed the sale of a minority stake in their V Sports vehicle to US investment firm Atairos in December last year....
...I have come to meet her at a private members’ club in Mayfair to talk about her recent book, Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take, a road map for new philanthropists and for organisations seeking...
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...Week in Milan appeared south of the Thames on Monday night, in London’s Kennington Park, to see whether Lee could restore the magic at Britain’s biggest and best-known luxury goods brand — and help the company...
...“For me, engagement with the South Asian community in London is of primary importance,” Lohia says over lunch in Mayfair. “The artist is number two.”...
...At the request of King George V, it mounted the 520-carat Cullinan I diamond, which is also known as the Great Star of Africa, in the royal sceptre....
...Gemcorp Capital, an emerging markets-focused investment firm based in Mayfair, went on to pursue deals involving Russian state-owned companies, including a failed plan to broker the sale of Sputnik V Covid...
...V, E, S, P, A: five letters with the power to summon a tourist-brochure-perfect Italy....
...The retrenchment has spurred demand for the services of private intelligence companies — many based in London’s Mayfair — and for private prosecutions, which allow companies and wealthy individuals to pursue...
...“Lots of small businesses here did not make it to March,” says Lin Xianfeng, who runs a renewables company in the city that turns biomass, such as scrap lumber and forest debris, into energy....
...An “alternative data” company called Quandl which tracks the flight details of private jets had quickly alerted its clients — mostly hedge funds — of the Gulfstream V’s unexpected visit and the potential...
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...; (iv) assist in the payment of sickness benefits; and (v) protect supply-chain financing in response to the coronavirus....
...This was not customary form amid the Paris-Mayfair empires of black and beige. There was, also, some inspired mischief with age and gender....
...Passing through the Mayfair store’s automatic doors — thought to be the oldest still in use in Britain — the atmosphere on the shop floor is half V&A, half Are You Being Served?...
...Originally designed as a power station to supply electricity to the Royal Mail, the building later became a cold store for the eponymous stock-cube company and then, almost inevitably, high-end riverside...
...supreme court has ousted the country’s prime minister from office in the dramatic culmination of a long-running scandal over his family’s unexplained wealth, including luxury apartments in London’s swish Mayfair...
...Aston Martin has a deal with clothing maker Hackett to produce men’s jackets and also sells branded items from handbags to baby pushchairs at a flagship store in London’s upmarket Mayfair district....
...A handsome 52-year-old, with closely cropped hair and aquiline features, he is dressed like a Premier League football manager in an expensive blue jacket and black V-neck T-shirt....
...According to the market research company NPD, sales of tabletop games in the UK rose 20 per cent in 2016....
...Still a private company, it took on a corporate structure as a group of regional businesses in 2000 and began publishing annual reports and accounts....
...In the Ralph & Russo showroom in Mayfair, there are racks of jumpsuits and tailored pieces, as well as the flights of fantasy....
...The artistic language of the Socialist Internationals, of interwar modernism and constructivism provides much of the lumber in his artistic universe....
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