Hints and tips:
...This could be a worthy lesson for Chen, who is about to set foot in the Japanese market, as Yoshidaya was slapped with an indefinite ban on doing business, lifted only on November 4 after more than 40 days...
...At lunch as in business, Nelson Peltz makes his preferences known....
...“Growing grapes is like doing business in China. You need to be thick-skinned,” says Chris Ruffle, a fund manager and owner of Treaty Port Vineyards in Shandong....
...I scan the horizon in anticipation of the distinctive silhouette of Mount Kalamos, the hulking outcrop of rock attached to the island’s eastern tip, whose peaks resemble the twin humps of a camel....
...The forbidding twin peaks of Ushba (4,710m) dominate the view north from the town, while the great pyramid of Tetnuldi (4,854m) sits to the east....
...“The Russians have been doing this for the past year: bidding each other up for the big trophy homes.”...
...Reasonably so, because she was also on an operating table, giving birth to twins via C-section as she told her doctors about the latest beer release at Talea, the brewery she co-founded with LeAnn Darland...
...This is not a normal business cycle downturn. As such, the normal dynamics do not apply....
...The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s measure rose 31 per cent in October, as global food commodity prices passed their 2008 and 2011 peaks — just before the Arab spring protests that were partly caused...
...It is located near Mid-Levels — a part of Hong Kong Island known for housing younger creatives and finance types — on one of the quieter terraced streets that lead up to the Peak....
...“We’re doing the right things . . . screens, you know, every gesture, because as soon as lockdown eased, we could rely on regular customers,” says Mr Brown, pointing at the plastic dividers between and across...
...Restaurants have also tried to hand on surplus food. Chains such as Zizzi, D&D, McDonald’s and PizzaExpress have donated excess stock to charities....
...“We have been doing everything we can to keep business as usual, but we now have to accept it is not business as usual,” the UK’s biggest supermarket chain said in a letter to customers....
...In July Tata Motors named former Renault boss Thierry Bolloré as the new JLR chief executive, to forge a future for the business....
...China’s “everything app” was hit hard by the country’s lockdown, which closed many of the restaurants it partnered with to deliver meals — its largest chunk of business — as it swung to a loss in the first...
...Clearly much of this will be pulled forward, but may be some benefit from people eating more at home than at office/restaurants....
...The restaurant industry as a whole, feels as crazy, rackety, unpredictable and basically as healthy as it has ever been....
...But with greater economies of scale, he thinks he could make it just as profitable as traditional crops....
...Separately, KKR, the US buyout giant, and L Catterton, the world’s largest consumer-focused private equity firm, have also expressed interest in a business that its owners hope could sell for as much as...
...At the Portuguese tapas restaurant Tasca Tasca, you can munch on crab empanadas and passion fruit mousse with mango while sipping sangria as Liverpool and Real Madrid do battle on a screen behind the bar...
...“For some, potential opposition from shareholders, stakeholders, NGOs is simply adding too much to the risk of doing business in Myanmar.”...
...Last year, food imports fell to $2.3bn, one-third of their 2008 peak....
...Sleepy tea-houses line the twin rivers that snake through the city and the clack of mah-jong game tiles echoes in back alleys till the early morning....
...The technology business, which Netessine advises, has about 40 retail chains as clients, including Uniqlo and 7-Eleven....
...And not everyone believes that valuations are reaching a peak....
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