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...Pet food and confectionery giant Mars has announced it will buy ailing UK chocolate business Hotel Chocolat in a deal worth about £534mn, with a payday of about £280mn for the latter’s founders....
...The two-day event will be held virtually with an optional in-person gathering at London’s South Place Hotel in the afternoon on day two....
...“But it doesn’t work willy-nilly on every pet-walking and hotel room-renting website.”...
...This is the country that brought us the world's first robot hotel, the world's first “humanless warehouse” and, more recently, a robotic pet designed to offer its human overlords love and affection....
...Yes, there were touristy horse-drawn carriages and expensive pet boutiques (“la mode pour votre chien”) but there were also snotty five-year-olds in snowsuits and families bearing grocery bags....
...He has opened hotels, restaurants and plonked a gigantic sculpture of a bloodshot eyeball city-centre....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 6, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Over the past couple of weeks, I have taken some terrible photos: the carpet of a hotel conference room, a blurry mug on my desk. One, of the plant on my bedside table, was just as I was waking up....
...“This is a huge, huge win for Japan Inc,” said a consultant to international casino operators....
...The RJR Airforce When Ross Johnson was chief executive of RJR Nabisco, the tobacco-to-biscuits conglomerate, in the 1980s, he sent Rocco, his pet dog, on a 2,000-mile flight aboard the company jet....
...They come with an array of features — from swimming pools and squash courts to a banqueting hall and pet spa — alongside pleasing views over the Arabian Sea....
...Another saving comes from the £280 fee that would have been paid to put the family’s two pet cats into catteries for a fortnight....
...When Patrick and John were children, their parents ran a small lakeside hotel in a village that had “nothing but mooing cows,” says Patrick....
...The FTC said that “at least” tens of thousands of American consumers had been affected by their children spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars in apps such as Tap Pet Hotel, Dragon Story and Tiny...
...The 12 apartments at the summit of the tower – expected to sell for £30m to £50m each – will go on the market after the hotel opens....
...And they did find the time to establish that luxury hotel rates in Lucknow are pretty much the same as in Mumbai....
...KPMG, the consultancy, recently admonished India Inc for its unstructured approach, noting that barely two in 10 large companies had systematic CSR programmes, compared with roughly three-quarters in the...
...Rather than dump them in any old kennel, an option might be the sumptuous Applewood Pet Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, which boasts real fleece-lined beds, a bone-shaped wading pool and colour TV....
...Harrah’s Entertainment, the hotel and casino operator, which had been due to list on Friday, cancelled its $500m IPO, citing market conditions....
...spas, dry cleaners or pet shops using their phone’s GPS....
...Not five-star hotels: hotels so exclusive, Joe Public never learns of their existence. With me so far?” I nodded then, as I nod now....
...Shanghai plans to add 20,000 hotel rooms by the end of next year – a 34 per cent inflation in the supply of starred hotel rooms – at a time when occupancy rates at five-star hotels have already been savaged...
...“The hotel is prepared to accommodate your pet, provided that it is less than 7kg and less than 45cm to the shoulder.”...
...Recent public ordinances – smoking bans in public buildings, prohibitions against burning rubbish and the removal of all birds without a pet licence from homes – have been enforced sporadically at best....
...To test his hypothesis, he constructed a basket of expenses Wall Streeters would come up against every day: watches and jewellery, services for their pets, air fares and so on....
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