Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...“It’s something that domestic television companies are unable to touch but only foreign networks can,” said Cheng, an office worker in Chengdu who did not want his full name published....
...The US car company, which had previously called for a transparent and rapid investigation, declined to comment on the latest allegations....
...The body is also developing standards to check the targets of oil and gas companies and financial institutions....
...Vanquis’s new chief executive Ian McLaughlin, who joined from Bank of Ireland in July, has some explaining to do....
...The Body Shop collapsed owing almost £50mn to unsecured creditors, who face being left out of pocket, as the administrators pursue a company voluntary arrangement in a bid to keep the retailer’s shops open...
...If a CVA was approved, “in order to support the rescue of the company”, Aurelius would not pursue The Body Shop for what it owed, according to the proposals....
...China has removed three senior leaders of military state-owned enterprises from a top political advisory body, signalling President Xi Jinping’s tightening control of the armed forces....
...It also became a significant creditor after The Body Shop took out a series of loans from Aurelius, pledging some of the company’s most valuable assets in return, meaning Aurelius would have a claim over...
...The decision to appoint administrators was taken after Aurelius, The Body Shop’s private equity owners, concluded the company had insufficient working capital after trading poorly in recent weeks....
...Founded in 1976 by the late Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon, The Body Shop was among the first companies to promote so-called ethical consumerism that argued that business could be a force for good....
...Unilever has announced it will sell a group of more than 20 brands including Q-tips, Timotei shampoo and Impulse body spray to private equity group Yellow Wood Partners, the latest in a series of sales of...
...to multiple Body Shop employees....
...The decision to appoint administrators was taken after Aurelius, The Body Shop’s private equity owners, concluded that the company had insufficient working capital after trading poorly in recent weeks....
...If the company went bankrupt, then Aurelius would have claims over The Body Shop assets which were worth similar amounts to the equity the firm invested, they added....
...London-based “turnaround investor” Aurelius stepped up, striking a deal to buy The Body Shop in a transaction valuing the company at £207mn....
...It was a busy, buzzy Friday night at Notting Hill’s Coronet Theatre, where the 30-artist, 16-day Taiwan Festival was entering its second week with Taipei’s Hung Dance company....
...The cryptocurrency company chaired by former UK chancellor Lord Philip Hammond has apologised for an event at which guests were served sushi from the bodies of scantily clad models and said it would launch...
...The same deed provided that another company owned by Musgrave and Corney, DCS Industrial Ltd, would be “entitled to a fee for consultancy services in connection with the dispute”, again up to £54mn....
...We are connected by the tread of our feet, the movement of our bodies, the patter of our voices. There are other traces of earlier visitors too....
...Boeing is trying to reassure airlines and the flying public in the wake of allegations last week from a longtime engineer at the manufacturer that it was taking “shortcuts” in building the wide-body jet...
...That equates to about £75mn-£100mn less than would have been expected on growth rates recorded before leaving the EU, the trade body said....
...He hoped the new body could replicate the success of the Takeover Panel, the industry-funded body that oversees acquisitions of London-listed companies and is staffed by senior lawyers and bankers....
...Her take is political: she critiques the ruthlessness of the “wellness” industry, and sees the body mass index as essentially a scam by insurance companies....
...Micael Johansson, chief executive of Sweden’s Saab and vice-president of ASD, the European industry trade body, said it was important to allow companies from third countries to play a role on certain conditions...
...The deals are often complex and companies increasingly want sophisticated financing solutions....
International Edition