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...The bank was founded by Vernon Hill, an entrepreneur known for his retail showmanship to woo depositors, sometimes with the aid of a dog....
...The brand now makes jewellery in Italy, where it has built a network of around 10 companies....
...One new hot-desker I know works for a company that has bought up several rivals....
...In a different mood, he would greet them with gentle good-humour, making small talk in his soft Edinburgh burr or (depending on the company) cracking a joke....
...“The retail industry is entering a transitionary period as inflation eases and consumer confidence shows early signs of improvement,” said Oliver Vernon-Harcourt, head of retail at Deloitte....
...SQM, in which China’s Tianqi Lithium holds a 22.16 per cent stake, is developing the $1.4bn Mt Holland hard-rock project in Australia with local conglomerate Wesfarmers....
...Gareth Lewis, commercial director of property lender MT Finance, said: “With the inflationary pressures now being felt, buyers are less prepared or less able to stretch themselves even if they wanted to....
...This building looked like it was making a genuine impact — at the same time, it felt like an investment in a good location,” he says....
...So I think there’s a sense of we — and I’ll happily say this — we also, at Man, felt like this should be going in one direction, and it hasn’t....
...Vernon is on the banks of the Seine, about an hour’s drive from Paris and just over the border into Normandy....
...“I felt everything went into freefall once the lockdown started. It was not a peaceful death, it was very unpeaceful, and I worry she suffered,” she said....
...Recently, a prominent Australian judge resigned from the city’s appeals court over the national security law and the territory’s chief justice, Geoffrey Ma, last week felt compelled to warn against politicising...
...But as staff struggled with a devastating lack of PPE and testing, this myth-making sometimes felt dissonant....
...The company said the pandemic was to blame, but analysts saw a business that was overdue a slimming to reach profitability. To some, it felt lacking in direction....
...This week I listened to some on topics from eiderdown farming to hand dryers — and that keeps me more grounded....
...Perhaps Jess and I felt we hadn’t spent enough time in close confinement this year....
...Our insurance company wrote to say we would no longer be covered. The woman who looked after my 88-year-old mother told me she was going to leave....
...It is, he says, one of the main reasons he felt confident about leading the campaign to leave the EU....
...Ms Cooper will leave “once a suitable successor is found” — which shows the board felt a need to act on shareholder concerns before it had even lined up a replacement....
...We felt the risk was to the downside after a period of extremely strong net inflows in FY18, FY19 and H1’20....
...What with Brexit looming, Theresa May teetering, and the choice of 1998 wine, it all felt a bit fin de siècle....
...When he interned at a company, the custom of collective drinking at happy hours shocked his peers. “It was a bit weird to be drinking with your bosses, we all felt.”...
...An accounting error took it from being a £2.7bn company growing its loan book by 66 per cent a year to a £500m company with growth plans on hold until it could raise £375m of capital....
...One company had to halt a production line because of the slowdown, he added....
...It felt new, exciting, accessible…” Even as a teenager? “A lot of people I know said they hated MK as teenagers but that wasn’t the case for me. I always enjoyed how everything felt futuristic.”...
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