Hints and tips:
...Luckin has restructured a large chunk of its debt, paid down a big portion of its SEC fine and appointed new auditors, according to company filings....
...News Corp’s history shows that it can be convinced to sell or spin off key assets, so long as there is money to be made by doing so....
..., with the US Chamber of Commerce warning last month that a new counter-espionage law “dramatically increases the uncertainties and risks of doing business in the People’s Republic”....
...the business case for doing something about it....
...Quick Fire Q&A I recently had coffee with Pushkar Mukewar, CEO and co-founder of Drip Capital, a Palo Alto-based company doing “buy now, pay later” for small and medium-sized business, aka trade finance...
...Someone had imported a bit of white and gold sand, to satisfy the LA business folk, but where you wanted to be was way out on the pulverised lava bordering the cobalt Pacific....
...“The investors, with the exception of Discovery [Inc, which has a significant stake], they all love Nigel Farage, they regard him as huge, a big, big character....
...He launched a hotel business. He began a furniture business. He backed technology start-ups and launched unrelated subsidiaries, such as the logistics company Sical....
...In Luckin, he is repeating a trick he first performed with Car Inc, a company looking to cash in on a culture of car renting in China that is yet to emerge....
...The company was valued at $2.2bn in a December in a funding round which included Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation....
...There is a hint of the 1960s psychedelic to Baylacq. He sees his business as a soulful alternative to Amazon’s corporate philosophy....
...“We are a small Welsh company fighting in an industry of giants with a radically different business model,” he says....
...“It’s a very good brand, but we felt we cannot afford it,” said Mr Tan Caktiong. He had wanted Pret as Jollibee’s way to compete in the growing US coffee sector....
...But the US-Taiwan partnership has faded from the forefront in recent years as European and Japanese companies also adopt a design-focused business model....
...Eric Kawabata, general manager for Asia-Pacific with TerraCycle, a US-based recycling company, says the China ban has created a “global crisis in plastic waste”....
...“Now the corporations can focus on going out, on going global. I think that means it will be a big year for Chinese companies doing overseas deals.”...
...If, in a decade’s time, he finds himself out of power in France, it is not hard to see him propping up the coffee bar in the congress centre, as the head of a big corporation or international organisation...
...United — known as “the Blades” after Sheffield’s steel industry — played a crucial part in the international reach of Mr McCabe’s business....
...The company pitches its concept as “playing FarmVille in real life”, referring to a popular online game....
...Mr Karkaria is confident about his approach as he seeks to prepare the business for a new and uncertain future....
...Canterbury Development Corporation estimates there was 446,000 sq m of office space in the central business district prior to the earthquakes, which fell to a low of 104,000 sq m by 2013....
...You can go to the coffee shop, but that’s risky in Cambridge, because everyone’s in the biotech business.”...
...“It is inevitable that the companies that will provide these kind of services will be the major corporations of the time: the Googles, the Facebooks.”...
...Apple stresses that it is “subject to the same tax laws as scores of other international companies doing business in Ireland”....
...The Brazilian private equity group controls Burger King and Heinz, and is in advanced talks to buy Kraft Foods Group – a deal that could be worth as much as $40bn....
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