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...Phoebe Gao, from shoemaker UT Footwear in China’s southern coastal Fujian province, said some manufacturers were pivoting to offer higher-end products and improved services to compete with “basic styles”...
...His firm, Aurum Partners, has invested in Silicon Valley start-ups like shoemaker Allbirds and file sharing platform Dropbox....
...And Allbirds, a shoemaker that attempted to float in a “sustainable” initial public offering, is also trading below its book value....
...Sustainable shoemaker Allbirds said on Tuesday that it had filed for a public listing in the US as it seeks to capitalise on demand for fashion brands with environmental credentials....
...Antitrust has been a concern for many dealmakers as Joe Biden’s watchdogs prioritise private equity regulation....
...Dr Martens has posted a jump in profits but the iconic British shoemaker said delays at US ports and factory closures in Vietnam had held back sales and warned that disruption would continue into next year...
...Allbirds walks back ‘sustainable IPO’ claims The self-styled ethical shoemaker Allbirds has walked back some of the ESG commitments it made ahead of its planned market debut....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Allbirds fires the starting gun on ‘sustainable’ public offerings Last week the wool shoemaker Allbirds became the first company to file its initial public offering as a Sustainable...
...It was a neat accessory to her message, “if we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.”...
...‘Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm That Became a Global Brand’, by Joe Foster The founder of Reebok describes how he created a global sporting footwear brand after he quit his family...
...In March 1917, Vladimir Lenin was living in Zurich, in smelly rooms rented from a shoemaker, spending his days in the library....
...The project was instigated by Joe Casely-Hayford, a contemporary of Moore’s who died this year....
...Former vice-president Joe Biden said: “This is a sickness. We can beat the NRA. We can beat the gun manufacturers.”...
...The pub had been in Joe’s wife’s family for 100 years, but sadly Dorothy had passed away before him....
...Though today he is more famous as the only occultist on the cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Crowley was a talented mountaineer who attempted both K2 and Kanchenjunga....
...Joe Cocker sang “With a Little Help From My Friends” at the opening, and Penelope Tree came in wearing a blouse with handkerchief sleeves made from printed scarves, which featured in Vogue....
...If you're The Beatles working on Sgt. Pepper, you want to drop Sgt. Pepper. We are not about putting out the rough cut.”...
...At Blackstone’s investor day in June, Joe Baratta, head of global private equity, warned of “waning” discipline (as evidenced by rising prices for leveraged buyouts), stating that “risks abound”....
...Curiously, its shoes have also been embraced by the Jamaican reggae and dance hall scene – stars including Ranking Joe and Little John have sung about Clarks....
...Review by James Urquhart … NOS4R2, by Joe Hill, Gollancz, RRP£18.99, 704 pages It seems unfair to compare Joe Hill’s fiction to that of his father Stephen King....
...Better would be to work together with car manufacturers to make their over-priced offerings cheaper or with shoemakers to develop products that are competitive on the global market, or with textile producers...
...Brazil fears that the real, although it has softened recently, remains relatively strong and is ruining the competitiveness of its industries, from shoemakers and textile companies to heavy industries, such...
...Joe Biden, the vice-president, stood beneath a giant chandelier, among the marbled columns of the al-Faw palace, and announced the end of the US combat mission....
...And later, at the ShanghART gallery on Huaihai Lu, I’d happened on a show by Zhou Tiehai, who superimposes the head of Camel cigarettes’ Joe Camel cartoon character on to human figures in copies of Titians...
...But the troops conducting patrols, such as Sgt Gray, believe most people are still waiting to see where to place their loyalties....
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