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...New layers of hospitality seating and luxury experiences cater to wealthier types of audiences....
...Those considering a punt on Cipriani’s new €500mn club venture will hope the high-end Italian hospitality group performs better than New York-listed rival Soho House....
...Five-star assets Raffles London, the lavish hotel once home to Winston Churchill’s office, underscores a new era of inflation-resistant super-luxury hospitality as foreign investors snap up trophy assets...
...She cites staffing struggles in the wider hospitality industry and says that, since Brexit, the fair’s European exhibitors had more than halved from 38 in 2018 to 16 last year....
...At Royal Caribbean Cruises, chief executive Richard Fain said last month that he would step down after more than three decades with the company, leaving the chief financial officer at the helm....
...Bill Gates has cemented his control of the Four Seasons luxury hotel group in a $2.2bn transaction with a Saudi royal that marks the technology billionaire’s first big deal since he split his fortune with...
...Another leading cruise line said its UK bookings leapt 300 per cent following the government’s announcement of reopening dates for hospitality and travel this week, albeit from a low base....
...Briefly Royal Mail raised guidance for its full year ending March after reporting an unprecedented surge in holiday season demand....
...Key reports Monday Occidental Petroleum Corp; Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd Tuesday Home Depot; HSBC; Intuit; Occidental Petroleum; InterContinental Hotels Wednesday Booking; Lowe’s Companies; Royal...
...Royal Mail appointed former Ocado executive Simon Thompson as its new UK chief....
...The UK financial watchdog has fined and banned a former Royal Bank of Scotland derivatives trader over the Libor fixing scandal....
...Another work, “Dedham Vale with the River Stour in Flood”, was reattributed to Constable and is estimated at between £2m and £3m....
...Among the companies listed (although Moody’s points out that some of them have already been announced) are Anglo American, Vale of Brazil, Alcoa of the US, and Canada’s Barrick Gold....
...Now, just a block from the St Regis Hotel — John Jacob Astor’s 1904 temple to hospitality — he presented his team with a proposal: a $13bn deal that would make him the operator not only of that historic...
...The rise of the Asian market and new technology elsewhere in the hospitality industry has forced operators to upgrade their cruise ships....
...Pharmaceuticals executives might not seem the most likely recipients of hospitality from HRH the Prince of Wales. The heir to the British throne is well known for his advocacy of homeopathy....
...The blinds are permanently drawn, and the only decoration is posters for the KC Royals, the local baseball team, and some dead potted plants....
...Starting, perhaps, with “bronze” sponsorship of the Royal Opera House and escalating to a corporate hospitality at the Wimbledon men’s finals....
...You read accounts of Viking approaches to hospitality, and it fits very nicely with that....
...(Financial Times) Vale posted its biggest quarterly loss since it went public in 1997 after settling a decade-long tax dispute with the Brazilian government....
...Ask people to name a royal or state yacht and HMY Britannia will be among the first that comes to mind....
...South Wales, around the Vale of Glamorgan, is likely to feature high on the list of prospective sites....
...The Rajasthan Royals this year teamed up with an international travel agency, for instance, to try and to entice cricket-loving foreign visitors to its matches....
...The St Regis Residences on Rajadamri Road, with views over the Royal Bangkok Sports Club’s horseracing track and golf course, tick all the boxes....
...Brazil and Beny Steinmetz Group Resources, even as it pursues a corruption investigation into the Israeli group. http://on.ft.com/11jxDjE Shell India in tax dispute with authorities Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal...
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