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...As flagship hotels go, the 190-room Four Seasons Tokyo at Otemachi sparkles like any other in the luxury hotel chain’s collection....
...The Scripps deal also has implications in the UK with the future ownership of UKTV, the collection of digital channels jointly owned by Scripps and BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s commercial arm....
...Revenue growth in the second half is likely to look more anaemic than first thought, given that it will lack the boost provided by the Olympics and US election last year....
...“There are only three or four of similar scale and you can’t buy the Olympics and you can’t buy Fifa. It was one we saw that had frankly been under-exploited.”...
...Property marketer Lobo Zhang joined a gym for the first time last year, adding to his collection of trainers and helping Chinese sportswear sales to climb at twice the rate of clothing and footwear in general...
...Instagram has shown itself willing to borrow from competitors, launching a clone of Snapchat’s story feature, where collections of photos last just 24 hours....
...He also makes contemporary briefs, together with T-shirts, hoodies, cotton jersey track pants and a collection of leather sandals and beach footwear....
...I looked ridiculous, sure, but by the end of summer I had earned more than enough money to supplement my baseball card collection....
...Du Pont was jailed for 30 years for shooting dead an Olympic gold-medal winning wrestler in 1996 and died in 2010. The stamp was sold on Tuesday night as part of his estate....
...Unless, that is, one has a collection of email outlining that it definitely is....
...The new men’s catwalk season begins in London this weekend under the banner London Collections: Men (“LC:M”)....
...And by fashion I don’t mean another one-off collaboration for H&M; I mean something long-term that could land on the schedule of the London collections: men....
...“You know, the first thing I did when we started the Olympic collection was ask the athletes, ‘Do you care what you wear? Does it make a difference?’...
...Earlier this summer, when Senator Harry Reid and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi began posturing dramatically about the fact that Ralph Lauren’s US Olympic uniforms had been made in China, the American...
...“Our summer collection started with the story of Felix Carvajal the marathon-running Cuban postman of the 1904 St Louis Olympics....
...American swimmer Ryan Lochte, whose Jeremy Scott for Adidas trainers were something of a sideshow during the recent Olympic Games, is not alone in his love of the fancy sneaker....
...The bubbling Olympic effect was also felt in the use of inventive fabrics (athletic gear being known for its technical innovations), which appeared in collections from Fendi to Jil Sander....
...Christie Rampone, captain of the US women’s Olympic football team, told Inc. magazine that communication and collaboration are the keys to success....
...Nadia Comaneci and her husband Bart Conner, both Olympic gold medal winners in gymnastics, discussed the overlap between business and sport in the book Awaken the Olympian Within , a collection of stories...
...The latter was probably the most overt use of typically British imagery all week – although there was also a sportswear theme on many runways, no doubt inspired by the Olympics....
...Most will come through Heathrow, the dismal collection of overcrowded sheds that passes for London’s main airport....
...About the time that Mr Kornerup had a picture of macramé hanging on his wall in 2001, Links of London was already in development of its Sweetie and Friendship collections, which launched in early 2002....
...With the Olympic torch relay due to trot into London in a year from now, it should be a time of preening and sprucing, polishing and buffing for Brand UK....
...Usain Bolt, the Olympic sprinter and world record holder, is renewing his sponsorship deal with Puma, extending his contract with the German sports wear company until beyond the London Olympics....
...It will be Xi Xinping – the senior Communist Party official who oversaw the Beijing Olympics. He has been tipped for the presidency for a couple of years....
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