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...Brera’s shares have fallen almost 70 per cent since it IPO’d 14 months ago. The club’s executive chairman is one Daniel J....
...He understood bookshops work best if they feel like clubs in which dedicated readers can consult expert curators....
...The firm made its pre-eminent reputation in takeover defence after it invented the shareholder rights plan better known as the “poison pill” in the 1980s....
...By 2011, she noticed the quality was starting to slip. “I’d spend $80 or $90 on a sweater and it would pill the second time I wore it. The linings were cheap fabrics that would pucker....
...£16.67 Justerini & Brooks, £25 inc tax Sunday Times Wine Club, £180 a dozen Farr Vintners Ch Meyney, St-Estèphe £21.75 Grand Vin Wine Merchants, £39 (inc tax) Cambridge Wine Merchants More stockists...
...Japan Inc: corporate governance battle The stage is set for a rare hostile takeover drama in Japan as Yoshiaki Murakami (below) –– the country’s most notorious shareholder activist –– sets his eyes on a...
...John Allan, who chairs Tesco and the CBI, presented the night’s debate trophy once he’d got over a stressful mid-event call from “You Know Who” in Westminster....
...As owner of Newcastle United Football Club, he quaffed beer in the stands during a match in 2008, not wine in the executive box....
...“I said I’d go and sort it out myself,” explains Mr McCabe. Expecting a drab industrial city, he was astonished by the pace of development there and in Beijing....
...Below are the breakdowns by Prosper Rating tranches: For AA, A and B loans, 69% on a unit basis and 83% on a dollar basis For C and D loans, 63% on a unit basis and 77% on a dollar basis For E and HR...
...Once a member-owned club, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange became a for-profit company in 2000 and went public two and a half years later....
...Here’s the rap-sheet (emphasis ours) that accused WebBank of: (a) operating with management whose policies and practices are detrimental to the Bank and jeopardize the safety of its deposits; (b) operating...
...And promotional costs haven’t disappeared; indeed, promotion in the digital age makes the old days of keeping fan clubs happy with signed photos look like child’s play....
...But in this race, that reputation was questioned by groups such as the Club for Growth, an anti-tax activist group that staunchly supported Mr Neumann and accused Mr Thompson of supporting Barack Obama’s...
...Patients take three ribavirin pills a day and have one interferon injection a week for anything up to a year. They get better about 60 per cent of the time....
...I trail after her as she says goodbye to the maître d’ and thanks the dessert chef for the cookies, pointing out, as we stroll by a large cake under glass: “She didn’t send us a taste of that.”...
...Russia has been breaking records, pushing its oil production to post-Soviet highs – in January output increased to 10.7m b/d, 1.5 per cent higher than a year previously....
...But Saudi production remained flat in February and March, averaging 8.9m b/d in both months....
...What is your plan B? Today I believe it’s increasingly about having a plan B, C and even D in your career....
...He quickly made friends and learned there was an A-team – and that he was in the B-team. “I liked the club and the company but I was an over-achiever,” Mr Specht says. How did he respond?...
...Almost as though they’re part of an exclusive club.”...
...Presenting one of the more ironic headaches for sovereign issuers and European banks out there at the moment. At any rate, we’d point to a great story from Joel Clark and Ellen Davis of Risk Magazine....
...Add the Stella field, and production is expected to hit 12,000 b/d in 2012....
...Banks pull the rug from under small-town conveyancing firms - Ex-banker leads race to be M&S Chairman - D&G ‘flounces off’ as London store puts its foot down in heels tiff - Chinese are pouring money into...
...And, what with the fish being delicate, I couldn’t get at my own things underneath the duvet. That is why I’m wearing my son’s blazer. “Ahh,” he says. “I thought you must be in a rowing club.”...
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