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...American Express Global Business Travel has agreed to buy rival CWT for $570mn in a bet on the continued recovery of business travel....
...On July 5, Yu Yong, the party secretary of the Shanghai district where Bain’s office is situated, visited the company to express support....
...Having disrupted the music industry, books, travel, banking, taxis — you know the list by now — the Valley came for Tinseltown....
...In one case Rs11bn was allegedly lent by Cox & Kings to a failing industrial group, whose only apparent connection to the travel company was that its chief financial officer seemed to be related to Anil...
...At stake is the future of one of Britain’s biggest outsourcers, a company that the government has come to rely on for more and more of the services that were once provided by public sector staff....
...The future for these two businesses appears increasingly financial rather than transport-related....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Lloyd Blankfein has not had far to travel....
...Behfar Jahanshahi, whose professional services company Interworks employs 230 people around the world, first met Mr Weinzweig at an Inc magazine event for America’s 500 fastest-growing companies....
...Two major corruption scandals — the Recruit shares-for-political-favours scandal and the Sagawa Express political donation scandal — broke out in the early years of the period, stoking strong public cynicism...
...Traveloka is an online travel service. The next wave of start-ups has focused on ancillary services such as payments, logistics and advertising technology....
...But it was also a symbolic defeat for Mr Bolloré, who had set his sights on bringing Ubisoft into the Vivendi fold to sit alongside companies such as Universal Music Group, Canal Plus and Havas....
...The company’s other interests include a container factory in Shanghai, opened in 1989, and a majority stake in Mariana Express Lines, which it acquired in 2015....
...Churches, schools and companies including the advertising group Interpublic Group organised screenings....
...Many London clients, the documents show, also had American Express or Barclays credit cards linked to an offshore company, some with credit limits in six figures....
...The man that Ablyazov was to meet was Ron Wahid, the Bangladeshi-American founder of Arcanum Global....
...Deutsche has had a difficult year, paying a $2.5bn fine for its involvement in the Libor scandal in April, losing one of its co-chief executives in July, and more recently becoming embroiled in a scandal...
...American Airlines (Travel & Tourism) 144. Centrica (Utilities) 145. Anglo American (Metals & Mining) 146. Dixons Carphone (Retail) 147. Experian (Finance) 148....
...● Related in depth: Libor scandal US cable cowboy Malone lassoes Time Warner unit America’s cable cowboy is riding high....
...In 2012, a potential sale to a number of North American bidders, including US travel site Priceline.com, collapsed over refusals to meet an asking price of more than £300m....
...● Related City Insider column: Goldman Sachs: Partnership dealings Google rolls out paid-for YouTube music service Google revamped its YouTube video service this week, putting music at the heart of its...
...What Europe needs is not an Airbus to Google’s Boeing but thousands of nimble enterprises that operate on a level playing field with big American companies....
...He had honed his skills at Harvard Business School and McKinsey, the consultants, before taking on senior roles at American Express, the financial services company and conglomerate RJR Nabisco....
...American Express slid 1.31 per cent to $91.93. Pandora Media, the music streaming service, fell by more than a tenth as the company continued to rack up losses amid intensifying competition....
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