Hints and tips:
...Beijing’s crackdown on consultancy firms has rattled the western companies that rely on them for information about doing business in the world’s second-biggest economy....
...The cost of living squeeze has once again put the wind in their sails as an increasing number of shoppers is doing a fuller shop at the discounters....
...But doing so could make for a messy time, as the EU is preparing to push through hundreds of new laws before the end of the year....
...These cuisines, as well as those from neighbouring states, were previously mostly found only at hawker stalls and casual joints....
...“They don’t have to go on Google or watch YouTube to check that what they are doing is right.”...
...Another approach is to partner with a platform — a recognised brand, for instance, backing a new entrant with exclusive distribution in a joint venture, which will benefit the brand as the platform grows...
...Since 1978, the two firms had shared a joint venture in Europe known as Financiere Credit Suisse-First Boston....
...George Parker Jacob Rees-Mogg there, supporting a piece of legislation that he promoted during his brief spell as business secretary under Liz Truss’s government....
...David Bell: It will stagnate, probably doing as badly as other advanced countries (USA excepted)....
...CLS was doing legal work for a company called Profit Group, which was listed in billing records as being part of Concord and whose functions are described as overseas oil extraction and mining, among other...
...American Express spun out GBT, as it is called, into a joint venture in 2014, retaining a 50 per cent stake. The deal values GBT at about $5bn, including debt....
...As a country, we need to listen more to the economic advice of the experts, OECD and IMF, rather than adopt half-baked schemes, eg Liz Truss....
...DoubleClick in 2007 as “the source of a number of problems”....
...Orbia is not ditching its green goals — but with a vinyls business that insiders say is doing “insanely well”, business logic is proving hard to ignore. jude.webber@ft.com...
...Returning favours Barrack’s approach to business calls for doing favours whenever possible and demanding little in return. “Karma really works,” he told an audience some years ago....
...An extra boost came in November with the announcement of a vaccine and the election of Joe Biden as US president. As well as volatile markets, there were volatile tempers....
...A landowner from Nangarhar tells me the protection money he pays to the Taliban not to destroy his irrigation systems is just another cost of doing business. It’s conflict that kills farming....
...Anyone following that suggestion and doing some googling in 2012 would have found a 2010 article in The Sunday Times identifying Kipros as Timur Kulibayev’s company....
...VR Isaac Asimov had these rules for robots of not doing harm, etc, and there was a group on data governance about a year ago, and the single rule that came out of it was that humans should flourish....
...as a representative of any third party; viii) Petroleum LLP did not receive benefits from the pipeline project; ix) Mr Karmanov has said he has not done business with Mr Kulibayev; x) no artificial overstatement...
...Simply put: the person supplying non-public information has to have benefited either through a pay-off or that good feeling you get doing something nice for a friend (by the way, this happens a lot before...
...focus — and, eventually, a business model....
...(Anna Gross) Grit in the oyster Many companies and investors say they try to “do well by doing good”. As a reminder that many still fall short, here’s a little grit in the ESG oyster....
...During a state visit from Emmanuel Macron, the French president, earlier this month, both sides issued a joint declaration, vowing that the Paris climate deal was “irreversible”, and promising new climate...
...Mr Swabey adds: “It is very easy [for a company] to assume that shareholder dissent is based on an error [made by the proxy adviser] rather than someone disagreeing with what they’re doing.”...
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