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...Planning records show it has an elevator, bowling alley, four storeys and at least as many urinals. Two people familiar with the purchase said Friedman was not looking to sell when Son approached him....
...In a rare win at a tightly contested extraordinary meeting last month, shareholders in elevator maker Fujitec approved four out of six candidates for non-executive directors that were proposed by Oasis to...
...A federal jury awarded Owen Diaz, who is black, nearly $3.2mn in damages in April in a lawsuit over the racial abuse he said he experienced while working as an elevator operator at the Fremont factory in...
...Mickey Mouse meets Sin City sounds like a bad elevator pitch for a film. But it is true. Family-friendly Disney will work with Penn Entertainment on sports betting....
...The group wants investors to think of it as a technology company, and for technology companies, the income statement is the thing....
...Stripe announced that it raised $6.5bn this week, valuing the company at $50bn....
...Wedzikowski, a senior director at the company....
...Or take Swirl, the Slack add-on that randomly pairs up coworkers for informal chats, rekindling the serendipitous in-person experience of chatting in the office kitchen or elevator with a co-worker....
...partner at Sequoia Capital Imagine you bought an apartment for $360,000 in 2011 which is now worth $2.4mn due, in large part, to the way the manager of the building had upgraded the roof, exterior and elevators...
...Three elevators, the fastest made by the Otis Elevator Company, will run through the interior of the flagpole, stopping along the way at a gift shop, a theatre and a lower observation platform at 330ft....
...United Technologies did the same with Otis elevators and Carrier heating and air conditioning....
...Dating from the early era of skyscraper construction, most have structural features that limit elevator capacity, obstruct views or make it more difficult to install modern amenities....
...Globally the elevators business is dominated by a quartet of companies that also include Otis, which is owned by United Technologies, and the Swiss group Schindler, while there are smaller players from Japan...
...The hope is to recreate the sense of joy Speyer experienced upon stepping from the elevator at a LinkedIn building in San Francisco years ago and encountering pulsing music, copious food and outdoor space...
...Getting to and from the elevators involves following a one-way system, while an open plan office is now divided into cubicles via plexi-glass partitions....
...Lift companies also benefit from the powerful European green agenda. This is especially the case in France, which has the oldest fleet of elevators in the world....
...The share prices of rivals Kone, Schindler and Otis have not been hit hard by the crisis. But the sheer size of the deal has complicated matters....
...This is how Björn Rosengren plans to shed the company’s ugly duckling image....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 19. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...As the executive producer of Sex Education, a hit show following the fumbling teen travails of Otis (Asa Butterfield) and his sex therapist mother (Gillian Anderson), Campbell’s company Eleven Films is on...
...Activists Cevian and Elliott have come in and pushed for the most profitable division, elevators, to be split off....
...The $16bn race to buy Thyssenkrupp’s elevator unit may reach its conclusion while the conference is under way....
...In September the company moved to accelerate its turnround plan, naming Martina Merz as its new chief executive....
..., or Germany Inc, a person close to the former Bosch manager said....
...UTC said late last year that it would spin off its Otis elevator and Carrier building-systems businesses into separately traded companies — a move that was supported by Mr Ackman....
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