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...“I watched him build his empire and, by the way, it is an empire,” said Mary Ann Tighe, chief executive of another real estate firm CBRE’s New York office....
...Add in $15bn in pending deals and Stephen Schwarzman and Jonathan Gray’s deal machine is revving into full force....
...Paraskeva quit after Ann Gray, RICS president, accused her of making “false allegations” about the professional body to a minister and expressed an intention to remove her as SRB chair in a letter sent last...
...One woman, Pamela Wolff, president of a group called Save Chelsea, said the Garden’s “throwaway aesthetic symbolises the low expectations of the era in which it was built” and pleaded with board members...
...St Ann’s Well, on the eastern slopes of the Malvern Hills, is my starting point for the day....
...Department store chain JCPenney and Ann Taylor-owner Ascena Retail alone occupied 6m square feet in its malls and accounted for $18.5m of CBL’s annual revenue....
...It joined the ranks of the largest womenswear retailers five years ago when it struck a deal to acquire Ann, parent company of Ann Taylor, LOFT and Lou & Grey, for about $2.16bn, giving it a total number...
...In recent weeks, chains including Brooks Brothers and Ann Taylor-owner Ascena Retail have filed for bankruptcy....
...But if yours tops that of Ann Hiatt’s, who in 2003 booked her boss Jeff Bezos on a helicopter that ended up crashing in the west Texas desert, do let us know. It’s probably worth a story....
...Ascena Retail, the womenswear group behind Ann Taylor, which catered for female office wear, has said it is evaluating “all options” to safeguard its business as it grapples with a heavy debt burden....
...Ascena Retail, the womenswear group behind Ann Taylor, has said it is evaluating “all options” to safeguard its business as it grapples with a $1.3bn term-loan burden....
...Ann Taylor parent Ascena Retail, which as of last summer employed 53,000 people, said all store workers would be put on leave....
...Wade Miquelon, chief executive of Jo-Ann Stores, an Ohio-based fabric and crafts chain with about 870 stores and 23,000 employees, said: “Our company will face tough decisions that could include job eliminations...
...In 2001, Simon Gray founded which energy drinks company? Louis XVI, executed during the French Revolution, was a member of which Royal house?...
...Wade Miquelon, chief executive of Jo-Ann Stores, an Ohio-based fabric and crafts chain with about 870 stores and 23,000 employees, said that even if retailers did push up prices in response they risked hurting...
...Ann Marie Buerkle, acting chairman of the CPSC, said in prepared remarks that the agency had been “investigating incidents and analysing the data” on the product’s safety....
...Research this year by Pamela Kaufman, a Morgan Stanley tobacco analyst, showed that the correlation between rising sales of Juul’s products and falling cigarette sales had become far clearer in recent months...
...Shares in the company, which owns women’s clothing chain Ann Taylor, slumped 28 per cent after its quarterly losses widened to $72m....
...As part of the overhaul, Ann Gloag will retire from her position as non-executive director. More here + Lex....
...A number of the artists he has collected have been shown in previous editions, among them Todd Gray, Samara Golden, Ricky Swallow, Math Bass, Ry Rocklen and Liz Glynn....
...Elisha Finney, former chief financial officer at medical equipment maker Varian Medical Systems, also held five directorships, while Pamela Patsley was on the board at five groups, including drinks group...
...It’s a breathtaking film, and it’s impossible to imagine anyone but Crawford inhabiting the role better, though she is supported by Ann Blyth as her toxic daughter and Eve Arden as her witty but embittered...
...The current chair of Ofgem, David Gray, will end his term on October 1....
...“We have always advocated that all consumers should have access to a free reliable score — reliable meaning the score the lender uses to make a decision,” said Pamela Banks, senior policy counsel at Consumers...
...Mary Ann Scully, chief executive of Maryland-based Howard Bank, said: “I don’t think people are so worried that they’re cutting back or trying to get rid of what they have, but when new opportunities are...
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