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...Finarte co-founder and self-proclaimed “colour designer” Eija Rasinmäki has spent five decades breathing new life into the classic ryijy design, weaving from her mill in Oitti....
...Hip swimwear label Hunza G’s distinctive crinkled fabric is knitted and dyed in a mill in the English Midlands, then cut and made in central London to reduce its carbon footprint....
...He was married to Peggy Guggenheim’s daughter, Pegeen, who died by suicide in 1967, prompting her mother to accuse him of her murder (the case was dropped)....
...MacColl had written the song in 1957 for the American singer Peggy Seeger, who would become his third wife....
...long products for the rail and construction industries, is being sold to the private equity group Greybull, while Liberty House, the trading group run by Sanjeev Gupta, has bought Tata’s Scottish rolling mills...
...The mill at Scunthorpe, owned by Tata Steel, makes mainly commodity long products such as rails and has been up for sale for more than a year....
...Steel associations around the world blame the downturn on dumping by lossmaking Chinese mills propped up by government cash. Experts say excess capacity globally is the root cause....
...Ratan Tata Ratan Tata began his career in 1961 shovelling limestone and handling the blast furnace at the Tata Steel factory in Jamshedpur, writes Peggy Hollinger....
...For a nice anecdotal example, read Peggy Hollinger's interview with John Neill, CEO of the car parts maker Unipart, in today's FT....
...One French finance ministry official says: “It is a fact that 50 per cent of Yoplait’s capital has just been sold last week to the US group, General Mills, even though the French company Lactalis was a declared...
...On top of this, a legal tussle with General Mills may deter buyers, analysts say, including the US food group itself....
...Among the interested bidders are multinational groups General Mills of the US, which owns the Yoplait franchise in North America, Bright Food of China and Switzerland’s Nestlé....
...Others rumoured to be interested include General Mills of the US, which has the Yoplait franchise in North America, Bright Food of China and Nestlé of Switzerland....
...Other companies reported to have shown interest include General Mills of the US, which owns the Yoplait franchise in North America, Bright Food of China and Nestlé of Switzerland....
...“The gap is already quite significant,” Mr Mills said. The key test to resolving the crisis that has sent bond yields soaring would come this autumn....
...The most likely is the flotation of its bioenergy business, which comprises ethanol plants, sugar mills and farmland in Brazil, the US and Europe....
...Made in 1913, and shown here alongside other pioneering works such as Duchamp’s “Coffee Mill” (1911) and Picabia’s “Girl Born Without a Mother” (1916), it suggests surrealism as the inevitable outcome of...
...They are replacing those who are unable to issue right now,” Mr Mills said....
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