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...Sue Y Nabi, the fifth chief executive of Coty since 2015, is betting the solution to finally fix the problem-plagued, heavily indebted cosmetics maker can be found in a tube of Gucci lipstick sold online...
...The professional division brought in about a fifth of Coty’s annual sales of $8.65bn in the year to the end of June....
...Spending on meat alternatives increased by nearly a fifth to £315.2m....
...JAB, which has also invested in coffee and casual dining chains such as Pret A Manger, owned 38.6 per cent of Coty as of June 30....
...The value of withdrawn M&A transactions is up more than a fifth from year-ago levels, and is now above $540bn as blockbuster deals come under threat of government scrutiny....
...It needs to eclipse the $11.2bn sales of Dunkin’ Brands Group to hit its goal of breaking into the fifth spot....
...More than 389,000 millionaires lived in the city in 2014, according to Spear’s magazine and WealthInsight, and it has the fourth highest percentage of millionaires per capita (at 4.6 per cent) behind Monaco...
...Bridgepoint already owns the sandwich chain Pret A Manger and Azzurri, the restaurant company behind Zizzi, the Italian restaurant chain which uses Deliveroo to fulfil customer delivery orders....
...UK private equity group Bridgepoint, which owns the sandwich chain Pret A Manger, and led Deliveroo’s Series E round this month, has not commented on its investment....
...mix of rapid economic growth and high interest rates to encourage the country’s investors to venture offshore. http://on.ft.com/XUSo3C Apple seeks to add more products to Samsung patent lawsuit Apple Inc...
...The index recorded a fifth successive weekly gain last week while Japan’s Nikkei average rose to a three-month high just shy of 9,000 and was last up 1.1 per cent at 8,925....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2 per cent to 10,389.88 and the Nasdaq was 1.1 per cent lower at 2,265.70....
...Since 2008 the site has been making the transition from consumables, such as nappies and wipes, to include “everything baby”, with new products such as $389 jogging strollers and $229 cribs....
...- Pret a Manger is looking into a flotation. Julian Metcalfe and fellow founder Sinclair Beecham hold two thirds of the British sandwich firm and want to do a deal in the next 18 months....
...Also, the story in CityAM that Pret A Manger might float looks fun so we’ll check it out....
...The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 0.2 per cent to 11,389.35, and the broader Topix average was 0.2 per cent lower at 1,149.51....
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