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...“It was a very unusual start for a new brand,” says Julie Gilhart, CDO of brand incubator Tomorrow Ltd and former fashion director at Barneys New York, the first store to stock them....
...When I first visited in 2010, I encountered an evangelism with echoes of the CDO sphere, despite the recent global financial crisis....
...For the final sample question (about whether to stuff a client into covered bonds, ABS or CDO) ChatGPT claimed not to have enough information so refused to give an answer....
...“There’s only one factor holding back a customer: where in the hell do I charge this car?”...
...“I would not say no to an IPO or a Spac, but it’s absolutely not decided when that will happen,” said Polestar chief executive Thomas Ingenlath, stressing that the group was after “long-term investors”....
...Townshend conceived The Who as a shortlived flash, a proto-punk outfit which might last only a couple of months (“I hope I die before I get old”) and the guitar-smashing was part of that impulse....
...Samuelsson said: “The customer is always right, but I’m totally convinced [by the end of the decade], there will be no customers who really want to stay with the petrol engine.”...
...I think that notion underpins why it is that I, or one of the reasons why I love my job as much as I do.”...
...“Make no mistake, I hate losing £1bn of sales,” said John Bason, finance director at Primark’s parent company Associated British Foods. “But we are looking through this....
...“I have been privileged to serve on the board…and have been very impressed by the quality of the company’s management and I have tremendous confidence in the future our business,” said Mr Goudet....
...“I am going to hold on to my Moutai stock for the next decade because there are tens of thousands of drinkers like me in China,” said Mr Wang....
...“If I were the CEO of Siemens or Schneider Electric I would have opened a bottle of champagne,” said Andreas Willi, a veteran analyst of the capital goods industry at JPMorgan....
...there’s a Berenberg AB Foods upgrade to “buy”. • Unprecedented demand shock: A lot has changed since we published our sector outlook, Hate it or love it; retail 2020, on 25 February....
...“Even if Primark paid every penny of labour cost, which I’m certain it will not come close to doing, it would still be paying 10 cents on the dollar.”...
...“I think he has much higher ambitions.” This week, Mr Li took the first steps towards realising that ambition, with a merger between Geely Auto and Volvo Cars....
...“We see demand for hybrids as long as I can see,” said Mr Samuelsson. “This allows us to improve a top hybrid engine without jeopardising any focus or resources on electrification.”...
...“I will let them taste of a prisoner’s life,” the president said in remarks in which he switched between English and Tagalog....
...“I think Asahi felt that it was now or never so they may have pushed themselves a bit to do this deal [in Australia] even by issuing new shares,” Daiwa analyst Makoto Morita said....
...However, he added: “I think it will take other deals off the cards for a couple of years.” The transaction is expected to close by the first quarter of next year....
...Carlos Brito, chief executive of acquisitive AB InBev, once laid out how he assessed senior leaders at Anheuser-Busch after InBev bought the brewer: “In any company, there’s 20 per cent that lead, 70 per...
...I would challenge that.”...
...Mr Behring said: “I’ve decided to step down so I can devote more time to my roles as chairman of two publicly listed companies and managing partner at 3G Capital.”...
...Young says the quartet ran through various prospective names for the business, including Spartan (“too masculine, and I didn’t have the abs for it”, he admits)....
...The development was welcomed by its largest shareholder, Investor AB, the vehicle of the Wallenberg family that owns more than a tenth of the stock....
...“I’m quite confident that we have taken every action and haven’t stepped away from tough decisions,” Mr Speth told analysts this week....
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