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...Wild: banking edition When a group of Credit Suisse bankers gathered for a camping retreat with Bear Grylls in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, they were ostensibly there to glean wisdom from the celebrity survivalist...
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...When Chinese challengers did emerge, such as the cosmetics brand Yue Sai, foreign companies have been quick to respond; L’Oréal bought it in 2004. This is starting to change....
...“Every half-year we had an examination to see how the business was progressing before we could receive the next tranche of money,” says Zhang Sai, chief executive of Robot Phoenix....
...That unpindownable je ne sais quoi is what Italian eyewear mogul Leonardo Del Vecchio is looking for when he says he could sell “millions” of Glass via Luxottica’s partnership with Google, if only the tech...
...“I can’t see why Google would do this,” he sai d....
...The exceptions to the rule… Chanel, with Alicia Vikander and Sai Bennett; and Dior Homme with Luke Evans and Daniel Brühl So now we go on to the Oscars. Anyone want to start placing bets on that?...
...In that regard, Dion no longer seems all that dissimilar from Alanis Morissette or, what the hell, from Marilyn Manson; they are fused by a 1990s Caucasian je ne sais quoi....
...Hence it sold its Chinese business Yue-sai, formed as a joint venture in 1996, to L’Oréal....
...Fondiaria-Sai also suffered from a rating cut, dropping 4.5 per cent to €1.30 after Standard & Poor’s reduced the Italian insurer’s rating from BBB minus to BB plus....
...Fondiaria-SAI jumped 9.3 per cent to €1.09, after reports that the Italian insurer may hive off its stakes in large Italian groups into a separate company in a bid to improve its capital base....
...When I heard about Ms de la Falaise’s death yesterday I was sad - she represented an era and a singularly flamboyant, very je ne sais quoi approach to dressing that will be missed – but it also got me thinking...
...Fondiaria-SAI, the Italian insurance group, rose 3.5 per cent to €10.87. France’s Axa added 1.7 per cent to €16.66 and Zurich Financial increased 1.4 per cent to SFr226.20....
...The writer is former secretary of the US Treasury and currently distinguished visiting scholar at SAIS. To join the debate go to www.ft.com/capitalismblog...
...The other pact members include Fondiaria-Sai, the insurer, and Fininvest, the commercial vehicle of Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister....
...Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Lloyd is chairman and chief executive officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and a director of the firm....
...on Tuesday, Greenberg was presented with a Founders award by the School of Advanced International Studies (Sais) at Johns Hopkins University....
...UBS also initiated coverage of Q’sai, the frozen food operator, with a “buy” rating, sending the shares 6.2 per cent higher to Y982....
...Blankfein, president and chief operating officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Lloyd is president and chief operating officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and a director of the firm....
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