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...The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessionsby Kate Summerscale, Profile £16.99/Penguin Random House $20 This neat compendium from the prizewinning author of The Suspicions of Mr...
...Kroll said it “denies Mr Earl’s claims in full”, and that it “acted entirely in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations”. Jones Day did not respond to requests for comment....
...“Germany has become a total basket case on the international stage,” said Johann Wadephul, the CDU’s foreign and defence spokesperson....
...Richemont’s online luxury rival Far Fetch was likely to have fared better, said Mr Solca....
...the first time without music on the first of January would be like a grave, it would be the worst sign, a negative sign for the entire world.”This concert, which includes a line-up of Viennese composer Johann...
...“You are either a disrupter or a disruptee and I hate being the latter,” Mr Rupert told reporters on a call....
...Mr Rupert said Richemont was in “a secure cash position to ride out” the Covid-19 crisis even if it lasts “longer than we all hope”....
...Mr Salvini, who remains one of Italy’s most popular politicians, has been a vocal supporter of Mr Trump....
...Johann Wadephul, deputy leader of the CDU group in parliament, told the Berlin Tagesspiegel newspaper that Mr Schröder, who is also chairman of Russia’s state-owned oil group Rosneft, should “immediately...
...Mr Leonard said Scottish Labour’s decline began long before he took charge, adding that the acrimonious resignation in 2014 of the then leader Johann Lamont had led only to the “calamity” of a near wipeout...
...In postwar Austria, the Vienna Philharmonic was the “most distinctive example” of the difficulty of removing Nazis from cultural life, wrote Mr Rathkolb in a different study....
...“From the first moment that I saw the beautiful gem table of Mr [Paolo] Bulgari, I felt like a kid in a toy store,” recalls Silvestri....
...“Such an approach does not create cohesion,” said Johann Horn, the head of IG Metall’s Bavarian branch, “but can lead to the tearing apart of society.”...
...“We will always work at full speed when we work, that’s how you manage a modern assembly factory,” said Mr Samuelsson....
...Scrambling to respond, the Dutch bank has not yet named a successor to Mr Hamers. The loss “will inevitably lead to a period of uncertainty” at ING, said Johann Scholtz, an analyst at Morningstar....
...Over the past four decades Mr Arnault, Europe’s richest person, has built LVMH from a near-bankrupt French textile company to the world’s largest luxury group by revenues....
...Given its high-profile position on such a high-profile wrist, it is unsurprising that word soon got around that Mr Lauren liked Panerai, not least within his own business....
...Mr Bogliolo, a former Bulgari executive, is seeking to target younger shoppers and reposition the brand to be more upmarket. It had suffered from lower tourist spending in the US and a strong dollar....
...But Mr Buffett is not entirely alone....
...Speaking at the same summit, Johann Rupert, chairman of the global luxury goods company Richemont and one of South Africa’s most prominent businessmen, backed Mr Ramaphosa to turn the country around....
...As the brand’s new chief executive, the former head of Roger Dubuis was tasked with injecting new life into group chairman Johann Rupert’s favourite child. The Frenchman is off to a fast start....
...Mr Strache has denied accusations of political corruption....
...In doing so it has forged, along with LVMH and Johann Rupert’s Richemont, a trio of European family-backed conglomerates that now dominate the industry — alongside the large single-brand French groups Chanel...
...By adding Tiffany to its stable of brands, LVMH will more than double its market share in jewellery to 18.4 per cent, surging ahead of Johann Rupert’s Richemont, at 14.8 per cent, according to Bloomberg...
...Only one thing is clear, as Mr von der Marwitz admitted: “The forest of the future will look different.”...
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