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...Fidelity’s Wright likes L&G, an institutional investor, with promising property projects, for example a £4bn partnership with Oxford university for housing and other schemes....
...It, like many of the other accessories, has been adorned with a new symbol for the house: a padlock inscribed with the Givenchy “G”, inspired by those hung from the Pont des Arts....
.... — Victoria Preston, author, London, UK A hidden West End gem A discreet but central spot in an unfashionable part of the West End, Aquavit London is a gem of a place....
...If taxes were the driver, the U.S. would be outpacing other regions, and sectors benefitting more from tax changes (e.g....
...“He has been talking to me about F1 for some time and saying there’s opportunity there,” says Mr Rubin....
...“If it be rainy weather, the touring cars and the wagonettes churn up a fearful mud,” the travel writer Charles G Harper wrote of Tintagel in 1910....
...G Plants, which makes seed kits in Preston, has spent £1.2m to bring production back from Holland to the UK, investing in a new £600,000 facility in Blackburn and increasing its staff from eight to 18....
...The operating profits that assurers disclose for any given period largely reflect earnings generated from business written in years gone by, says Matthew Preston at Berenberg....
...Even so, said Matthew Preston, analyst at Berenberg, the results lacked “the big positive surprises – especially with regard to dividends beats – that we have become used to in recent years”....
...This view is echoed by a fund manager who is top 20 shareholder in L&G. “We are looking at the insurance sector closely, but we are not abandoning our stake or selling down,” he says....
...But Martin Sorrell has never quite shed the suspicion that hung around him and his partner Preston Rabl that day, like the odour of the chip shop where they had grabbed lunch....
...Why: This 19th-century windmill was transformed into a guest house in the 1950s by Samuel Rubin, founder of Fabergé Cosmetics....
...“The appetite has gone away quite a bit,” says Matthew Preston, an analyst at Berenberg. But he adds: “As [management] why would you want to squash it [the speculation]?...
...Rofey Jeroen Rombouts Michael Ronen Jami Rubin Yann Samuelides Joshua S....
...As a result, we are facing a “leadership vacuum” – catchily defined as a “G-Zero world”....
...Ebay will lend $467m to the new company, while Mr Rubin will invest $31m....
...As the tide of quality in commercial cinema draws back to the horizon – a vast regressive ocean, a mare terribilis of G.I....
...Dune, founded in 1993, is wholly owned by Daniel Rubin, the chain’s managing director....
...Fergusons, a Northumberland-based transport logistics, removals and property business, with nearly 400 employees and almost £20m annual turnover, was set up in 1926 by a miner who, with a family to support...
...I believe the Rubin, Summers, Uncle Tom Cobbley & all other Treasury Secretaries’ since way of phrasing of this has always been ‘we have a strong dollar policy’....
...The Peter G. Peterson Foundation preaches financial responsibility on both personal and national levels....
...The French president Nicolas Sarkozy had talked at the G-20 summit in Washington as if he alone could save the world economy....
...The Elliott G-PAC computer is the size of a Welsh dresser, the Goblin Time-Spot radio alarm clock the size of a bread bin....
...Likewise, under its “connect and develop” programme, Procter and Gamble has licensed or acquired products from a range of competitors, bringing these products to market as P&G brands....
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