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...In the spotlight: Alexandre de Rothschild Alexandre de Rothschild’s early experiences of the family bank were of visiting its cigar-smoke-filled offices in Paris as a child in the 1980s....
...He was a prominent M&A banker who served as the last chief executive of Bear Stearns, succeeding Jimmy Cayne, a cigar-chomping trader of the old school....
...After his 1979 appointment, cigar-toting Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker broke the inflationary curse in '81, paving the way for the great bull market of the 80s and 90s as interest rates gradually...
...This year also marks another celebration: the 20th anniversary of St John, his defiantly British restaurant housed in an old Clerkenwell smokehouse....
...Over sake and cigars, he floated the idea of the two men combining the cable companies they respectively headed, Virgin Media and Liberty Global....
...Mr Clooney has close ties with Sony Pictures: his Smokehouse Pictures label has offices on the Sony studio lot in Culver City, California....
...So please, let’s call a spade a spade, a cigar a cigar, and contemporary, contemporary. At the very least, Freud would approve....
...The dapper, cigar-chomping 57-year-old helped negotiate Imperial Tobacco’s 2007 takeover of Altadis, the Franco-Spanish tobacco group of which he was chief executive....
...There’s no other way to put it than to say that this has been the best year-and-a-half imaginable,” says Mr Bandier, seated in a mogul-sized office that includes his familiar wooden cigar box and the requisite...
...early career at BP as a geologist, the outdoorsman and avid sailor spent two years as Lord Browne’s assistant at the beginning of the 1990s, learning everything from how to reposition a company to which cigar...
...The chance arises as the cigar-puffing Tang, he of Shanghai Tang, the China Club, China Tang and other ventures celebrating a vision of decadent inter-war Shanghai, is to rent out his name for a global...
...One of Wall Street’s most colourful characters, Mr Cayne is known for his love of cigars and competitive bridge....
...Bernd Pischetsrieder, the cigar-smoking head of Germany’s Volkswagen, on Wednesday came perilously close to a “Ratner moment” when he dismissed cars made by Audi, his company’s most profitable division,...
...This is likely to rise to 21.2m lb this year and reach 30m lb by 2010 following the opening of new mines in 2007 at Cigar Lake in Canada and Inkai in Kazakhstan....
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