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...Those feelings grew with the fall of the Berlin Wall, as she witnessed East Germans’ hunger for freedom. “It was electrifying for me to see. And they were right — it is extraordinary....
...and offered to take me to his club to celebrate....
...Talk on the ground has it that Ennismore’s The Hoxton has been in talks about a site in Jalan Besar, east of the CBD (a neighbourhood described by one local friend as “the Shoreditch of Singapore, such as...
...I mean, even dealing with, you know, sound guys at clubs around the world, you know, who . . . when you’re a woman and you have a guitar, they don’t assume you know what you’re doing....
...Business in the EU is doing relatively better, even if the UK continues to plumb new lows. Meanwhile, UK bankers’ counterparts in the Gulf had no shortage of cash to throw around....
...Case study: Espensen Spirit, Bristol After seven years of adapting to changing trends, Sam Espensen sees the next six months as make or break for her Bristol-based business....
...No deal As the Middle East’s wealth funds grow more selective and China reels in its conglomerates, dealmakers are scrambling to court Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance for quick cash....
...This time it’s from Real Madrid, one of the biggest and most successful clubs, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Sam Agini report. Under the project, known as “La Liga Impulso”, CVC would invest €2.7bn....
...The reality was that no one cared who you were, as long as you made money. And Fink made money....
...out at its US warehouse business, Sam’s Club....
...There’s no telling when that can happen....
...was no fan of exchange traded funds....
...“They’re saying ‘What are you doing with the taxes?’...
...Zhongbai has 748 supermarkets, 302 convenience stores and 78 warehouses in the city, which has also attracted the likes of Ikea and Sam’s Club....
...“It was amazing how much she was up here,” he says, “and it was because what we were doing was seen as ‘enterprise’....
...That speech, posted on Mr Sam Rainsy’s Facebook page, has resonated among the opposition ranks in Cambodia. Opposition figures in the Maldives are just as bitter....
...So we just say that’s business we’re not doing,” Chris Lofgren, chief executive of Schneider National, a leading carrier, told a New York conference....
...Back then, no one else was doing that.”...
...That’s no longer the case — you have to be more selective about where you invest. But companies in the top quartile will deliver exactly the same sort of returns as before,” he says....
...It was as if Annan had never stepped down. Only he was not on official business. He had come as “Farmer Kofi”....
...But the handful of comments are no less effusive. One is from an excited teenager: “You are one of the most down to earth person I know!”...
...They created what is known as an economic miracle in Italy’s north-east....
...Known as a southern charmer — with a hard edge underneath — he spent most of his career in merchandising in the US division, before taking the reins as president and CEO in 2006 of Sam’s Club, the group’...
...at a corporate book club....
...“If you can’t make use of the community there’s no point being here,” explains Mr Bath, who leads a team of five. “It’s a members club as much as a physical place to work.”...
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