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...“We are obviously the heart of commerce in the real world, so why would we not want to do the same thing in a metaverse?...
...Miquela responds to a comment asking if she’s “really queer” by saying, “I love who I love <heart emoji>”....
...Our survey suggests some more price and promo competition from major third party brands clearing excess inventory....
...But until now there has been no outside interest from the big brands of the luxury world in this confined, conservative valley....
...He also pays Rmb700 a month for his father’s heart disease treatment....
...Other brands, including Finisterre, have launched Yulex lines. Patagonia’s efforts are impressive....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The targets both offer some insulation from a hostile environment by selling products ruled by the heart and not the head....
...Catering to top sporting executives is becoming a big business....
...Mr Müller, 62, is hardly a brand-new broom — a fact that led one big investor to call for his replacement after less than two months....
...The big beasts in tech — and they are very big — say they have no interest in investing in content. The reality is that they have no need to if they create go-to platforms for publishers’ content....
...Sales jumped 47 per cent to $2bn, buoyed by its recent acquisition of Big Heart Pet Brands. Analysts on Wall Street had expected JM Smucker to report earnings of $1.10 per share on sales of $1.9bn....
...The legitimate industry may be small, but it is already big business for cyberthieves....
...The future of this arrangement was thrown into doubt last May when Lee Kun-hee suffered a heart attack, which has left him bedridden and unable to communicate....
...One sign of hope for private equity dealmaking next year came in mid-December, when BC Partners won a hotly contested auction for pet food company Petsmart, paying $8.7bn in the largest leveraged buyout...
...A former senior executive in another big drinks company says that the Russian beer sector, controlled by big foreign brewers such as Carlsberg and Heineken, is far more tempting a target than domestic hard...
...Mr Smith believes that the “billion-dollar brands of tomorrow will have digital hearts”....
...Housh dispersed the flock to new channels for every big city and set up a secret one for core organisers to thrash through plans to keep the movement going....
...“It’s inevitable that some people are going to get sick of it … Cowell was the heart of it. His leaving will have a big impact.”...
...“There is a brand coalescing around the university,” Ismail says, “and we’re pushing that forward.”...
...During the ready-to-wear shows, which begin in New York next month, late at night is the classic “artiste” slot, as big brands tend to want to go earlier in the day to make newspaper deadlines and thus ensure...
...Sheikh Mohammed, the city’s ruler since January, recognised decades ago that the business of what has become known locally as Dubai Inc would be too big for any one man to manage alone....
...Mr Loveman is puzzled by the UK government's change of heart, given how keen it appeared to attract the big Las Vegas operators. "I am not entirely sure what went wrong," he says....
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