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...Ms Mattoon was chief operating officer of Richemont North America, the luxury group, and Mr Schmitz, a former McKinsey partner, was a director of KKR Capstone, KKR’s in-house consultancy....
...Top shareholdings: Resolute Forest Products; Dex Media; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; IBM; Merck & Co; New York Times. Portfolio Value: $2.5bn....
...Tennessee chemistry The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry holds its 34th Annual North American Meeting in Nashville....
...However, in a recent interview with the Financial Times, the boss of Michelin, Jean-Dominique Senard, said that the competitiveness measures introduced by Mr Hollande’s government had only come as a “part-compensation...
...Major tyre companies including Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear and Continental have raised prices by 5-15 per cent this year – and some businesses have announced a further round of price increases....
...In contrast to this week’s warning from Michelin, its European rival, Goodyear, the US tyremaker, reported strong first-quarter profits as the weak dollar boosted exports....
...America’s relations with the Shah – who was Kissinger’s friend – were never simply personal, he says; they were grounded in an understanding of the strategic importance of Iran, a situation that still holds...
...Pan’s Labyrinth is deadly earnest in its portrait of a time: the aftermath of war, when Franco’s soldiers pushed north to purge the last resistance....
...The Bristol, the Crillon, the George V, the Meurice, the Plaza Athenee and the Ritz, all renowned for their historic buildings, squadrons of attentive staff and Michelin-starred restaurants, were found to...
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. Role reversal After years of serving as a top consultant to the world’s largest media groups, Michael Wolf is joining one....
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