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...Luppolo Brewing Company 1123 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 2E3 Good for: An Italianate brewery experience, with slow pours, precise lagers and excellent pizza Not so good for: A quick one....
...As well as Herbie Hancock, Buddy Guy, George Benson and Thundercat, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and country singer Alison Krauss reunite for their Grammy-winning duo....
...“Most companies know that the level of increase in wages this year will be the highest certainly since . . . pre-Lehmans,” said Hays’ finance director Paul Venables....
...George Roberts with Onix Capital. If he and this “George R” on LinkedIn are the same person, he’s head of trading at London-based Onix....
...Robert Lighthizer, Washington’s trade representative, recently played down the idea of any firm deal before Americans go to the polls....
...Smaller rival Robert Walters was similarly affected, posting a 7 per cent fourth quarter decline in gross profits earlier in January, driven primarily by political uncertainty in the UK, where gross profits...
...Robert Walters on Monday said it had seen a similar effect in France, its largest European market outside the UK....
...Bucking the trend, Robert Walters, a smaller listed group, recorded UK fee income growth of 13 per cent in its latest quarter, driven in part by its human resources outsourcing division....
...Yet it has proved useful to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation....
...Small-cap listed recruiter Robert Walters on Wednesday said it expected profits to beat market expectations in 2017 as it also recorded a record quarter....
...Hays’ share price hit a 52-week high on Wednesday, reaching 170p, after encouraging performances from peer PageGroup and smaller competitor Robert Walters earlier in the week....
...Paul Venables, finance director, said that recruitment in the export-focused manufacturing and engineering sectors, which had benefited from a weaker pound, had seen a “real improvement”, but overall there...
...Paul Venables, chief financial officer at Hays, said he thought the worst effects of Brexit-related uncertainty were over: “We think we’ve taken most of the pain we could have faced,” he said....
...While it was always expected to bring a halt to public sector hiring, Mr Venables said: “The bigger issue will be general uncertainty....
...Bill Campbell Chief Executive, Stratophase Glyn Edwards Chief Executive, Summit Kate Bingham Managing Partner, SV Life Sciences Allan Malcolm Business Development Manager, Synergy Health Dr David Venables...
...Stephen Venables was the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen, and is a former president of the Alpine Club Photographs: Stephen Venables...
...“There’s now no weak area of the recruitment market in the UK,” said Mr Venables....
...Robert Walters had also reported a difficult Australian market, saying the country’s financial services and mining slowdown had affected the recruitment market there....
...According to Mr Venables, Hays has identified these two countries as the group’s largest profit opportunity over the next five years....
...The results come a day after Robert Walters, the recruitment company, also announced strong growth in its UK business....
...“Australia has been the toughest market we’ve been in for about 15 months,” said Mr Venables....
...His killers, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, are now in their 30s and are protected by an injunction that prevents publication of any information purporting to identify them....
...“Having had a sharp downturn [in hiring] in Australia in 2012, we’ve at least seen the start of a bottoming out in the last three months,” Mr Venables said....
...“There’s a bit more competition . . . there’s no doubt it’s getting tougher,” says Paul Venables, group finance director at Hays....
...“White collar recruitment is a relatively new business [in Germany] and we’ve been at the forefront of it,” Mr Venables said....
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