Hints and tips:
...Susan Baker, director of shareholder advocacy at Trillium Asset Management, said the litigation risk was not just for manufacturers....
...peggy.hollinger@ft.com...
...The collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim, who had made a point of not wanting to travel with “so many suitcases”, was less fortunate, when she changed trains here eight months later....
...Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, said in Doha this week that it would be “very challenging”....
...I recently listened to an episode about Peggy Guggenheim, who collected art over her whole life....
...These include GKN, Thales UK, Qinetiq, Martin-Baker and others....
...But since this favourite haunt of Peggy Guggenheim is currently closed for the foreseeable, this season an outing to the kitchen disco will have to do....
...No, said Rod Hunter, trade and investment partner at Baker McKenzie, the global law firm. “This is an instance of the WTO working as intended....
...Her mother, Peggy Inglis, a famous actress in South Africa, never went near a kitchen, and her father, Sam Leith, was too busy producing dynamite for ICI to teach her how to bake....
...Airbus’s most difficult client, the notoriously outspoken Akbar al-Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, made a point of requesting that Mr Brégier hand over his new aircraft, even though Guillaume Faury...
...Mr Al Baker said there had been a slowdown in the Gulf, “but it didn’t happen to Qatar Airways”....
...The FT's industry editor Peggy Hollinger speaks to Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker on the Gulf blockade, laptop bans and his plans for growth....
...“It will give young people very clear pathways to technical careers,” Lord Baker said....
...Mr Williams also put paid to the suggestion by Conservative MP Steve Baker that a UK outside of the EU could easily develop its own commercial aircraft industry to rival Airbus and Boeing....
...But Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’s chief executive, rejected the suggestion that the engines he was being offered were good enough....
...In a statement, Akbar Al-Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, said: “We have been very happy with our investment in IAG, from a financial, commercial and strategic perspective....
...Akbar Al-Baker, Qatar chief executive, revealed the increased stake in a discussion with reporters at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai....
...Etihad executives stress the Abu Dhabi-based airline has enough orders to carry it through to 2025, and Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, says he is not planning to buy passenger jets soon....
...Mr Al Baker was also taking ownership of his fourth A380. Qatar has a firm order for 10 of the superjumbos, as well as the option for three more....
...Baker & McKenzie, a law firm, will publish findings from a survey of 100 companies at the Trust Women conference showing that government and public actions to hold business accountable for the behaviour...
...IAG and Qatar Airways declined to comment when asked if there was a conflict of interest for Qatar and Mr Al Baker....
...Mr Al Baker hinted that Qatar Airways, which has ordered 80 A350s, could buy more....
...Ms Lagarde, who spent six years in Chicago running Baker & McKenzie, the US law firm, has rapidly emerged as the leading contender for the job, with developing countries still struggling to unite behind...
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