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...The house was previously owned by Henry Ford II, former head of the eponymous carmaker and grandson of its founder, and his wife Kathleen DuRoss Ford....
...She worked at Jennison for almost two decades, during which she married Robert Remington Wood and they had three children....
...“Lex is nothing if not ambitious,” General Atlantic’s chief executive Bill Ford told the Wall Street Journal at the time of the deal, which propelled Greensill Capital’s valuation past the $1.6bn mark....
...(FT) News round-up Ford borrows $15.4bn to manage plant shutdown (FT) Hedge fund Millennium shuts several ‘trading pods’ over virus turmoil (FT) Private equity/Bill Ackman: a spring break for Blackstone...
...While both the Russian government and the plutocrat Robert Mercer, part owner of the now defunct Cambridge Analytica and donor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, learnt how to massage the complex secretive...
...“Cars were invented in the late 1800s, but it wasn’t until Ford’s Model T that they took off. And it was because of cost,” he says....
...Relativity has financed dozens of Hollywood films and recently released Paranoia, a thriller starring Liam Hemsworth and Harrison Ford, and The Family, a dark comedy starring Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer...
...(Financial Times) “Ford Motor is to develop its hybrid drive technology for light trucks independently of Japan’s Toyota after the pair broke off co-operation in the field amid robust statements from Ford...
...General Motors’ Cadillac and Ford’s Lincoln brands are trying to claw back their luxury market share lost to foreign manufacturers in the last four decades....
...Keith Roberts, chief financial officer of Petrofac, the oil services group, also joins the board as a non-executive director....
...Ethan Bellamy, Wunderlich Securities/Robert Baird & Co Ethan Bellamy, now at Robert Baird & Co, is a senior analyst covering the energy sector with a focus on master limited partnerships (MLPs)....
...At this time, ratings on GMAC unit Residential Capital LLC (CCC+/Negative/C) are not on CreditWatch....
...Ford gained 4.9 per cent on Monday to $2.58 in spite of a 32 per cent drop in sales....
...“This is the most difficult environment we have ever faced,” said Robert Hull, GMAC’s chief financial officer....
...The revelation of the talks coincided with the resignation of Robert Rubin, the former US Treasury secretary, from the board of Ford....
...Meanwhile Bridgestone will have to work hard to persuade investors it can avoid Ford’s mistakes....
...Ford, which paid £1bn for Kwik-Fit in 1999, sold it to private equity group CVC Capital a few years later for £350m, but kept a 19 per cent stake....
...The exceptions include companies such as Germany’s Robert Bosch. Its technological lead in automotive electronics enables it to call at least some of the shots....
...In the 1990s, Ford expanded into automotive servicesand acquired brands such as Volvo and Jaguar. But it neglected to develop world-class models for its core car business....
...THE PPR GANG - CORPORATES Who: ROBERT POLET Why: Chief executive, Gucci Group The Inside Track No one has a tougher act to follow than Robert Polet, the man charged with taking Italy’s number one luxury...
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