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...Through his investment company Cascade Investment, Gates was once even a shareholder in Carpetright, a decidedly unglamorous British flooring retailer....
...A crowd of suits and red ties slowly makes its way through a welcome arch made from red balloons, towards a temporary stage bearing a huge red banner that reads: “Grand Opening Risever Machinery, LLC.”...
...She was young, in her twenties, and I was as randy as a stallion in a ranch full of mares.” He also said: “Let’s just say I’ve been around the block once or twice....
...And the company has a lot further to go to rival John Lewis for hardwood flooring. But the shift in strategy has been closely watched by investors treading carefully after recent profit warnings....
...In 2008, it bought a 3 per cent share of Carpetright, the flooring retailer, but has since reduced its stake. It has also invested in Diageo, the distiller, and JJB Sports, the retailer....
...After years of helping keep corporate default rates extraordinarily low by flooring borrowing costs, the US Federal Reserve is preparing to raise interest rates....
...The ground floor has marble flooring, a chef’s kitchen and a dining room that opens on to a fully landscaped garden....
...The BRC said Furniture and Flooring was the best performing category....
...I’d also once been kicked by a pony, and I half-imagined being given a bucking stallion. But I shouldn’t have worried....
...Colleagues dubbed him the Silver Stallion, for his prematurely white hair with a boyish shock and for possessing, as the old-fashioned euphemism puts it, “a way with the ladies”....
...Gleaming oak flooring and carved oak panels from the 1600s give this room an imposing feel....
...And, for extremists, there’s the Horse Floor Lamp – a full-sized, 2.1m stallion, crowned with a lampshade, designed for Moooi by the Swedish collective Front....
...In the late 1970s when it caught wind of a rival company’s plan to launch Colt 45 beer in South Africa, it countered with Stallion 54, a brand it retired after pre-empting the competition....
...Among the smaller companies, Floors 2 Go fell 11.3 per cent to 74.5p after the laminate and wooden flooring retailer said takeover talks that began last December with a private equity group, understood to...
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