Hints and tips:
...France L&S and Italy will not pay dividends this year, and XL Bermuda is unlikely to. The slack is only partly taken up by France P&C which is over distributing....
...Mr Lorenzo was promoting a debenture offering in Waste2Energy Holdings Inc — a now-bankrupt company which was claiming it had technology that converted waste into clean energy....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Patagonians tend to share the company values. “The ones who don’t [share the values] end up leaving, usually. The body rejects the limb,” Ms Marcario says....
...They couldn’t produce variety, like a lot of colours.”...
...Investors are still waiting for last quarter’s results from the three European companies with the biggest US exposure — Nestlé, L’Oréal, and Reckitt Benckiser....
...An earlier attempt to sell two of its three businesses had attracted interest in the whole company....
...They were used in the 1990s by AT&T and Sprint to try to attract a higher valuation for their fast-growing mobile businesses, and by companies including Walt Disney to tap into the dotcom bubble for their...
...Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1. Beenz.com TAKEOFF From a trade rag called Revolution, (June 9, 1998): “Don’t say loyalty, say currency,” says Letts....
...Obviously the record companies have their points of view, and we artists have our point of view,” he says reasonably....
...He no longer owns Idol and five years ago sold his company, 19 Entertainment, to media group CKX Inc....
...The Edam Acquisition consortium, comprising Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Mediacinco Cartera SL, Cyrte Fund II B.V. and VI, L.P., acquired control of 99.7% of Endemol Investment Holding BV from Telefonica...
...“We don’t think it’s like other recessions. It was essentially more like a global reset, from which there is going to be slower growth out.”...
...He said it would not be a V shaped recovery with a sharp rebound, or a W shaped recovery with a double dip, or a U shaped recovery with a pause before an uptick, but an L shaped recovery — “down and not...
...Many of the vineyards in this V-shaped morsel of northern Hérault are on the gravelly limestone rubble in which so many of France’s vines feel comfortable....
...“Everyone is trying to give a letter in the alphabet to describe what sort of shape the recovery is going to be: U-shaped, V-shaped, W-shaped or L-shaped,” says Sean O’Flanagan, a portfolio manager with...
...Securities Inc., with insider trading in credit default swaps of VNU N.V., an international holding company that owns Nielsen Media and other media businesses....
...“Will it be an L-shaped recovery or a V? I don’t know,” says Pedro Gómez de Baeza, GBS chairman, “but we notice that investors are starting to come out of their hibernation....
...The results aren’t entirely encouraging....
...Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation, and Others Don’t By Lynda Gratton FT/Prentice Hall £20, 232 pages FT bookshop price: £16 London Business School’s own hot property, Gratton...
...Rather than list all the single letter stocks, let’s just look at the ones that haven’t yet been taken (just in case you want one): G (was Gillette until recently), I, J, L, N, P U, V, W and Z....
...As a part of these teams, we had reams and reams of information and data on generics, profit pools, what products are made, what the future is, what impact it would have on our P&L....
...Philip L Letts Tom Glocer: You raise a very interesting point....
...THE WORLD IS FLAT by Thomas L....
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