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...It was here that he met his wife, and in 1975 they set up their own business in a basement next door to the ultra-French Paris bistro L’Ami Louis, recruited a couple of Sicilian tailors and started to sell...
...L Catterton, which is backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH, is expected to list the business next week....
...The deal raised almost $1.5bn for the company and L Catterton, its private equity owner. About a third of the proceeds will be used by the company to repay debt, with the rest going to L Catterton....
...If L Catterton decides to go ahead with the listing, Birkenstock could be valued at more than $8bn, the people added....
...L Catterton declined to comment....
...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
...The NPG was founded to collect portraits for “the person represented rather than the merit of the artist”, but director Nicholas Cullinan’s judicious acquisitions square that circle — biography and great...
...“I stumbled upon this shopfront on a summer’s morning in 1987,” recalls Nicholas Walt, owner of L Cornelissen & Son, a forest green-fronted art shop in London’s Bloomsbury. “It was around 5am....
...In this display of more than 70 pieces, curator Nicholas Cullinan probes their functionality: “Painting or sculpture?” he asks. “Utilitarian or ornamental?”...
...Nicholas Bull wrote: “You’ve mentioned a number of times that certain fine wines are quickly getting out of reach for even relatively well-paid people....
...“I wear an M for a smarter look under a more fitted shirt, sweater or jacket,” he says, “and an L for more casual looks with loose-fit chinos or shorts.”...
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...Nicholas Lyons, the veteran investment banker and insurance executive, wants to use his City contacts to broker discussions on proposed financial reforms in the Square Mile after he takes over the largely...
...But this is a rally standing on top of some very slender stilts, write my colleagues Katie Martin and Nicholas Megaw in this Big Read....
The watchmaker is looking to polish its high-end credentials with a music-inspired minute repeater
...When I ask Mount Anvil, co-developers with L&Q, how they alighted on the name, they do not offer comment....
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...Professional traders are diving into so-called zero-day options, derivative contracts that are bought or sold on the day they expire, DD’s Eric Platt and the FT’s Nicholas Megaw report....
...Letter in response to this article: Swedish PM’s Chinatowns quip at odds with the data / From Kai L Chan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates...
...Fresh off reporting his story, Nicholas Megaw shared this impression: Even supporters of the SEC worry about its cost-benefit analyses....
...Cosmetics groups L’Oréal and Estée Lauder illustrate the diverging response among consumer groups....
...He doesn’t really have one because he has to be the liquid man,” says Nicholas Dungan, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and chief executive of CogitoPraxis, a leadership consultancy....
...Phyllis is “pleased with her life” as a housewife, until Nicholas (Nicky), the twenty-something son of a family friend, comes for dinner one summer evening....
...I visited Marmo, near St Nicholas Market, with Kate Hawkings, who is my Bristol Fixer and Wine Wingwoman....
...“There are too many migrants,” he says from behind the counter of his bar in La Ricamarie in the industrial valley of the L’Ondaine river that joins the Loire near Saint-Etienne, mirroring the complaints...
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