Hints and tips:
...The Chinese owners of both Ferretti in Italy and Sunseeker in the UK have made management changes after their respective takeovers....
...heads – many of which showed portraits of the very same women wearing little more than either loincloths (in the 1994 calendar “In Praise of Women”, which featured Kate Moss) or leaves (in photographer Richard...
...The statement is a thinly veiled barb at its closest rival, the Chinese-owned Ferretti Group....
...Azimut Benetti, which for most of its life has had a similar growth pattern to Ferretti, has clung to family ownership, led by founder Paolo Vitelli....
...“It’s the one thing you can wear all day, then all night,” says Savile Row tailor Richard James....
...In the past two years, new investors have come into the market with the sales of Germany’s Blohm + Voss Shipyards, Italy’s Ferretti Group and Fairline in the UK, and the new owners seem committed to developing...
...“The market has come down about 60 to 80 per cent from its peak,” says Richard Winckles, co-founder of Balmoral Capital, a UK buy-out fund that bought two yachtmakers – the UK’s Oyster Marine and Italy’s...
...The group is already in talks to sell Parques Reunidos, the Spanish theme park operator run by Richard Golding, which it bought for €900m three years ago....
...It specialises in 20m-30m motor yachts costing on average €1.5m and its prestigious client list has included Brigitte Bardot, Richard Burton and Jennifer Lopez....
...Samsonite, the world’s biggest maker of suitcases, completed a debt restructure this year, as did Ferretti, the Italian yachtmaker....
...Balmoral was founded last year by two former Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity executives, Richard Winckles and Alec D’Janoeff....
...If Richard Prince, who is having a retrospective at the Guggenheim museum in New York, can “rephotograph” a photograph and present it as original work, if Gus Van Sant can do a frame-by-frame remake of Alfred...
...Richard Burton, in a deal that could be valued at €1.7bn, according to people close to the situation....
...Two bidders are competing to win control of Ferretti, the world’s biggest luxury yacht maker, whose customers have included Brigitte Bardot and Richard Burton, in a deal that could be valued at €1.7bn ($2.1bn...
...The Italian company’s boats sell for between €200,000 and €40m and have been enjoyed by Hollywood film stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Richard Burton, as well as R&B singer Usher and models such as Naomi...
...Next stop will be Milan, courtesy of Diego Della Valle and JP Tod’s (and, perhaps, Tod’s collaborator and Cinecitta Studios set genius Dante Ferretti)....
International Edition