Hints and tips:
...a clip-on battery), I’m now slightly besotted with it....
...If I was the first to be worried, I’m not so stupid to leave there . . . and to say, ‘I go and you stay’. Everyone understood and they trusted us.”...
...Von Halle spends hours in the cast-iron roll-top Aston Matthews bath, reading, watching films and phoning friends....
...“Yeah as I said I’m making zero effort to hide, I go on walks and malls [sic].” “War is the ultimate Supreme Court.” “The FT is not a pro-business paper. It’s not a pro-Tory paper....
...In September last year, the brand paired up with French fashion house L’Art de L’Automobile on a specially redesigned Porsche 968; it has also teamed up with TAG Heuer and BOSS....
...For Los Angeles-based ICM, whose clients include actor Samuel L Jackson and singer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, the acquisition represents its first move into sports....
...Federation Internationale de l’Automobile, the Paris-based regulator, is in talks over a possible salary cap with Liberty Media-owned F1, the sport’s teams and drivers, who are set to return to the glamorous...
...(A vintage Citroën DS and a Jaguar E-Type are attracting particularly admiring looks, including from me, and I’m not even interested in cars.)...
...Around 85% of revenue comes from Markets & Airlines (tour operating and airlines), but M&A is only 15% of EBIT, and EBIT margins vary from 1% here to 50-70% in Hotels and Cruise (optically high due to JV...
...One mystery here is the identity of the investment consortia buyers, “Gemstone Investment Holding Ltd” and “Allied Cigar Corporation, S.L”....
...And Aston Martin’s profit warning on Tuesday gets the usual response from the analysts, including a victory lap from Panmure’s Sanjay Jha. He remains “sell” with a target cut from 288p to 199p....
...AZB & Partners has promoted Qais Jamal to partnership and added Aditya Periwal as a partner in the general corporate and infrastructure practice. Periwal was formerly at L&L Partners....
...K&L Gates has added David Owen as counsel to its asset management and investment funds practice. Owen joins from Allianz Global Investors....
...I’m being reasonable here — don’t need a million quid a week.”...
...Aston Martin, partners of the Red Bull Racing team....
...Marseille’s budget this season is about €120m, compared with €540m for Paris, according to the French sports newspaper L’Equipe. McCourt says: “I’m not going to be naive....
...Having grown out of anything seamed or patterned or animal-printed, I’m favouring a micro-fishnet at Jonathan Aston (£8.75) and, more recently, Calzedonia (€7.50), which I discovered on a surprisingly fruitful...
...The grooming staple I’m never without is Versace L’Homme, a classic fragrance, which I’ve been wearing since the 1980s. An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to in the past year is Fiji....
...I collect art but I am of the age where I’m not looking at it as an investment, but because I like it. I have got an original L.S. Lowry, because I am a Northerner....
...“It’s almost quadrupled since then, but the other side of the road, where the houses are pied dans l’eau in Lake Geneva, is probably above SFr4,000 per sq m now,” he says....
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