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...While I was having a coffee on one of the comfortable lounge sofas, I noticed a pop-up stand serving ice cream in cones, while decadent cakes and pastries produced by the in-house patisserie were on display...
...Then they step in front of the business customers to take more of the cake for themselves. Then it’s time for the cycle to start again....
...There are plenty of cafés in the area for a post-swim drink and cake....
...the Nintendo 64 and Sony’s original PlayStation consoles were keeping teenage thumbs occupied, John Riccitiello jumped from the consumer goods industry — selling sports equipment, ice cream and frozen cakes...
...Launching the test and trace programme late last month, its head, Dido Harding, described the app as “the cherry on the cake, rather than the cake itself” and refused to be drawn on a timetable for its implementation...
...But less is said about how the equity cake is baked. You’d assume, as many do, that to be included in the index, a company would have to pass a set of rules. And, on paper at least, you’d be right....
...Google will handle around 30 per cent of all global advertising (after handing back some of this to partners in the form of traffic acquisition costs, it will keep around one-quarter of the global ads cake...
A trend in leveraged buyouts helps managers have their cake and eat it too. But not all investors are on board
...(FT) Taking the cake Investment groups and hedge funds are increasingly churning out bankruptcy loans to take control of ailing corporations so quickly that lower-ranking creditors often miss the memo....
...The fund has argued Campbell should explore a sale of some of its assets including microwaveable popcorn Pop Secret and Pepperidge Farm frozen cakes....
...an investor presentation, Third Point said Campbell should explore disposals of assets it described as non-core, such as its microwaveable popcorn Pop Secret and the dessert brand Pepperidge Farm Frozen Cakes...
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...Second, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin might want to send a slice of cake to Bill Gates, since it was arguably the US v Microsoft antitrust case 17 years ago, in which Microsoft was ultimately...
...Tyson Foods said on Friday that it had reached a deal to sell its Sara Lee Frozen Bakery — known for pies, cakes and other baked goods — and Van’s, best known for waffles, to private equity firm Kohlberg...
...The socialist market economy paradigm is a stark illustration that the Chinese are trying to have their cake and eat it too. The rub is that SOEs constitute the Communist party’s raison d’être....
...“I do not consider that Google’s own activity can be equated with journalism,” he wrote firmly, ruling that the technology titan wanted, as one would, to have its cake and to eat it....
...With so much of the “change” being a form of revisionism back to older ways of doing things, or in the best-case scenario, the creation of eat-cake-and-have-it-too centralised/decentralised hybrid solutions...
...This decision is now a headache for Pinterest, Airbnb and Dropbox, who are all preparing to go public, as well as any future founder-chief executive who wants to have his cake and eat it....
...Gores Group chairman and chief executive Alec Gores in a statement hailed Hostess and its snack cakes as “the epitome of American icons”....
...The Singapore-based company also has a growing fund management business based on real estate assets, which one person familiar with the review said would be the “icing on the cake” for potential buyers....
...US spice-maker McCormick has given up on buying Mr Kipling cake-maker Premier Foods....
...Premier Foods, maker of British staples such as Mr Kipling cakes and Bisto gravy, has received a sweetened takeover offer from the US’s McCormick, the spice-maker that describes itself as “a global leader...
...Shares in Mr Kipling cakes maker Premier Foods have jumped another 9.1 per cent this morning amid further bid speculation....
...Premier Foods, the UK company behind brands such as Mr Kipling cakes, revealed yesterday that it had rejected two approaches from spice-maker McCormick, the latest of which was pitched at 60p a share....
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