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FT Alphaville
FTAV gift guide: C-suite edit
...Boney M provided the entertainment when René Benko, the sybaritic founder of the overleveraged Austrian prime property group Signa, rebutted rumours of its potential collapse by throwing a party....
November 17, 2023
Human capital
Person of interest 2023: the longlist
...[Signa unravelled: inside René Benko’s debt-laden property empire — FT] Guys. C’mon. While there's still a chance of recovering 6 or maybe 7 cents on the dollar....
December 21, 2023
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
Transcript
Transcript: Is Signa’s downfall a canary in the coal mine?
...That’s Signa with an S, not a C. It owns stakes and trophy assets like Selfridges in London and New York city’s Chrysler building....
December 13, 2023
ReviewHistory books
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses — of silkworms and spider webs
...As the entomologist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur observed in 1711, “nature does not limit itself to a few examples, even of its most singular productions.”...
June 27, 2023
Unilever PLC
Hein Schumacher: from Dove soap factory floor to Unilever chief
...Allan Leighton, chair of C&A and former Asda chief executive, said: “He tells it as it is. He’s very Dutch in that way....
February 2, 2023
Transport
Geely takes stake in German flying taxi start-up Volocopter
...Geely’s investment in the Series C funding round represents less than half of the €50m and will give it a stake of about 10 per cent in Volocopter....
September 9, 2019
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
IPOs
Thai retailer set to raise $2.5bn in country’s biggest IPO
...This week Central expanded its European portfolio by teaming up with Austrian property billionaire René Benko to buy Swiss luxury department brand Globus and other property assets for $1bn....
February 5, 2020
HTSI
Collecting men’s fashion illustration
...But there is one name that stands above all others when it comes to menswear illustrations: René Gruau, who defined the look of fashion reportage from the late 1930s, working with Dior, Lanvin and Balenciaga...
September 19, 2019
News in-depthRetail sector
Pursuit of Tesco assets puts dominance of Thai families under scrutiny
...TCC could face a regulatory challenge as its Big C chain operates hypermarkets — the same segment as Tesco Lotus....
February 10, 2020
Property sector
Hudson’s Bay to merge Kaufhof with German rival Karstadt
...The Toronto-listed group, which owns the upmarket US chain Saks Fifth Avenue, said on Tuesday that it had agreed to merge its Kaufhof department store group with local rival Karstadt, controlled by René...
September 11, 2018
FT Globetrotter
French windows: an expat’s view of Paris
...— with a shrug of their shoulders and two words: c’est compliqué....
September 20, 2018
The Aesthete
Furniture designer Pavlo Schtakleff on Florence, ‘Fondue in the Sky’ and his favourite taxidermy crustacean
...meal that truly impressed me was at a Fondue in the Sky pop-up restaurant in Verbier: Swiss moitié-moitié fondue made with Gruyère and Vacherin Fribourgeois, accompanied by a delicious white wine by Jean-René...
May 15, 2018
European companies
Austria’s Signa bids for German retailer Galeria Kaufhof
...Shares in HBC jumped 10.5 per cent to C$12.45 just after midday in Toronto trading after Reuters first reported on Signa’s offer. The company has a market value of C$2.2bn and net debt of C$4.2bn....
November 1, 2017
FT Magazine
How a volatility virus infected Wall Street
...Growing up in Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s, Harry Markowitz enjoyed baseball and football, playing the violin and reading philosophy, especially David Hume and René Descartes....
April 12, 2018
Andrew Hill
Too many angry cooks spoil the business broth
...He uses the C-word (and it is not “cook”) in the first paragraph of his article and asks whether there is “still room for guys like me” in the industry....
August 24, 2015
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
US & Canadian companies
Hudson’s Bay wins battle for Metro’s Galeria Kaufhof
...Shares in Hudson’s Bay shares rose 8 per cent ti C$26 in lunchtime trading on Monday. Additional reporting by Andrea Felsted in London...
June 15, 2015
European companies
Heineken hit by emerging market slowdown
...Trevor Stirling, an analyst at Sanford C....
October 23, 2013
European companies
Four billionaires battle for France’s telecoms market
...Mr Bolloré is weighing options with Jean-René Fourtou, the chairman, and the rest of the board....
March 13, 2014
Life & Arts
The message of a bottle
...Dove believes maximalist French glass designer René Lalique has been at least as influential as Gabrielle Chanel....
May 31, 2013
Life & Arts
The Art Market: from Russia with interest
...One aficionado is Takeo Horiuchi, the Japanese founder of the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum Collection in Nagoya....
March 1, 2013
European companies
Vivendi parts company with CEO
...Mr Lévy lost out to chairman Jean-René Fourtou just days after a weekend summit of directors and senior management confronted shareholder pressure to split up the group, according to people familiar with...
June 28, 2012
European companies
Pressure on Vivendi to show its hand
...But a debate is clearly under way about possible strategic changes, although the company denies any significant differences between chairman Jean-René Fourtou and Jean-Bernard Lévy, the chief executive....
June 21, 2012
European companies
Fallout expected after failed AT&T bid
...“We never really got to a thorough inspection [of the merger],” René Obermann, Deutsche Telekom chief executive, said on Tuesday, adding that authorities never appeared interested in details of the initial...
December 20, 2011
FT Magazine
Exclusive extract: Where chefs eat
...The French fancies and cream cakes, still baked daily on the premises, are a reliable source of calories and le café au lait “c’est bon”....
January 4, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Faust, Metropolitan Opera, New York
...Under the circumstances, one actually expected a diminuendo on the top C of “Salut, demeure” – a feat managed by such past paragons as Giuseppe Sabbatini and Giuseppe di Stefano....
November 30, 2011

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