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...The Hut houses a motley crew of businesses in the beauty and wellness space. Before news of Apollo’s bid the company had an enterprise value of about £1.5bn, a lowly 0.6 times this year’s sales....
...More recently, it purchased a majority stake in newsletter publisher Morning Brew. Axel Springer is already in a 50/50 joint venture with Politico for a Europe-focused version of its website....
...The bigger Axel Springer is in the US, the more its American interests, which include Business Insider and Morning Brew and a stake in Group Nine as well as Politico, could benefit....
...The Amsterdam-listed company had been a useful vehicle for the French telecoms billionaire in assembling a motley crew of telecoms assets straddling France, Portugal, Israel, the US and the Dominican Republic...
...Now it’s time for Shaky Pete’s Ginger Brews all round in the world of private equity (Hawksmoor’s best cocktail, in case you didn’t know)....
Proxy groups have been at forefront of battles between companies and investors
...Earlier this year the company hired former Millennium Management and Bluecrest trader Jonathan Larkin as its chief investment officer, to help add an institutional veneer to its motley group of DIY computer...
...Some of the choices belie the brochure’s promise of “transcendent and calming music” — Miles Davis’s knotty Bitches Brew, for instance — but frankly that was a relief....
...High-end or “specialty coffee”, which includes the coffee made from pods as well as artisanal drip brew, now accounts for more than half of all coffee consumed in the US....
The chance to take full control of MillerCoors presents a ‘game changer’ for US-Canadian rival
...This is important in a market where the share of mainstream beer brands such as Miller Lite and AB InBev’s Budweiser is being eaten into by demand for craft brews....
...Think of American beer and the image that springs to mind is “Duff”, the fictional brew favoured by cartoon character Homer Simpson....
...In spite of their dominance of the US beer market, both MillerCoors and AB InBev still face a growing threat from craft brews, which en masse have been making steady inroads with an increasing share of about...
...While only a handful of operators brew the world’s biggest brands, there are thousands of small breweries making craft beer, in Europe and the US....
...The exception is the craft ale market where SABMiller – which brews Blue Moon and Summer Shandy – tasted double-digit volume growth during the quarter....
...Governments, in recognition of the latter and also of the role commercial brews play in weaning drinkers of illicit and sometimes life-threatening hooch, have responded by waiving or reducing excise duty...
...In emerging markets, analysts at Investec Securities cautioned that “the devil is in the regional detail”, noting that Latin America’s growth was buoyed by a drive towards cheaper brews....
...The “goon” of the title is time itself – paying a surprise visit to a motley crew of ageing music hipsters who suddenly realise they are no longer the groovy young things they once were....
...In the 1980s, InBev acquired two highly regarded Belgian brews, Hoegaarden and Leffe....
...Shares in ADM have surged 22 per cent since early June, when the Russia crisis started to brew....
...For the past 22 years, Anheuser-Busch let Budweiser’s share of the US market decline because consumer tastes were shifting towards lighter brews and growth from its Bud Light brand more than compensated...
...“We are pleased by the court’s decision,” said Motley Rice attorney Michael Elsner, who represents World Holdings....
...This lies rather in Vodafone’s motley collection of minority stakes. It is arguable whether Vodafone’s small minority holdings add much more value than could be derived from non-equity partnerships....
...Those featured in the complaint are a motley crew of hedgies, analysts, traders and attorneys, many of whom stand accused of participating in a scheme in which Raj Rajaratnam and his Galleon hedge fund...
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