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...Apollo has done deals in the restaurant and entertainment sector before but has largely focused on companies in North America. Among its past investments are the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain....
...Founders swapping notes at the South by Southwest festival in Texas last week admitted that they had received a rapid education....
...I haven’t made up my mind on pimento cheese which, for the uninitiated, is more cheese-adjacent than cheese. Kingsolver’s bag of potato chips is untouched....
...Gary Kelly is stepping down as chief executive of Southwest Airlines after 17 years at the helm. He will be replaced by Robert Jordan, currently the executive vice-president of corporate services....
...The company is Perfect Day, which uses digital copies of cow DNA to create animal-free proteins that, it says, come closer to the taste and texture and taste of milk, ice cream, cheese and yoghurt than the...
...They included leveraged buyouts of the Mexican food chain Qdoba last year, the parent company of Chuck E Cheese in 2014 and CKE Restaurants, which owns burger chain Carl’s Jr, in 2010....
...Venture capital groups have a habit of pouring money into local companies they like. See Blue Bottle Coffee and grilled cheese sandwich chain The Melt....
...In 1941, he commissioned his son, then still a student at University College Dublin’s architecture school, to design a building for 1,000 pigs and then a cheese warehouse. A career was launched....
...The service is particularly popular in US southwest cities, including Los Angeles and Phoenix. In addition to “doubling down” in those markets, Ms Schaefer said, the company will push into new regions....
...A colleague points out that Norway is also responsible for such miseries as Ibsen and brown whey cheese. But its reasons for choosing Go-Ahead are more positive....
...I think it’s disgusting – like cottage cheese covered in chocolate – but my kids love it....
...“He was like the cat with the cheese. He would make an offer one day and retract it the next.”...
...“If you look forward to deep space exploration, we all need to agree on an architecture where we don’t just take each other’s cheese,” says Mr Chilton of Boeing....
...- What the Russian’s crave: cheese. - China scam innovations. - Mind-meld: neuroscientists link three monkey brains into living computer....
...The Denver-based private equity group bought Cannizaro House in southwest London for around £20m, and opened a Malmaison in Dundee. But it has asked UBS to examine strategic options....
...Yet when big cheeses at small companies sell their shares it is the cue for slews of lawyers, tax experts and regulators to debate every nuance....
...Truffles are sold in the lobby, fresh, steeped in brandy, and infused in cheese and longaniza sausage....
...Hulu, for instance, promoted the new season of its supernatural comedy Deadbeat at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and advertising on bus shelters in...
...Tickler came from a merger with Milk Link, a co-operative owned by dairy farmers in the southwest. The co-operative merged with Arla in 2012 as it lacked marketing muscle and national scale....
...Carlyle, the private equity firm, has bought a unit of healthcare company Johnson & Johnson in a $4.15bn deal, joining the host of companies making acquisitions as the new year gets under way....
...Also in Somerset are two of the UK’s leading cheese producers – including Wyke Farms in Bruton, which has sales of £75m....
...He narrowed down his search to the southwest after talking to China’s top wine academics and painstaking climate analysis....
...The company has just 13 stores, concentrated in the New York area, but is steadily adding locations....
...France’s EDF has been in talks with China Guangdong Nuclear Power on teaming up to build a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset, southwest England....
...(Financial Times) “Kraft Foods Group, the North American packaged-foods company with brands including Maxwell House coffee and Velveeta cheese, authorized a $3 billion stock repurchase program....
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