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...The company, including Instagram, has 3bn active users, even higher than YouTube, and 20 times that of Spotify....
...Note that Eminence’s stake in Men’s is three times the value of its stake in Jos. The apparent wager is that Jos A Bank snags Men’s Wearhouse but pays richly to do so....
...Defence lawyers argued a leading 1983 Supreme Court decision called Dirks v. SEC was the guiding principle....
...“Designers are catering to markets around the world at any one time, so they increasingly need to create pieces that work everywhere,” she says....
...Natalie Kingham, international womenswear buyer at online luxury retailer Matches, suggests that times may have changed. “White dresses have sold fast,” she notes....
...The registrar of x.co.uk, for example, has changed hands three times in the past week and is currently owned by Kiss Ltd of Mayfair....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...But what the banks do not point out is how many of them then let their standards slip at a crucial time....
...The withdrawal of V&S, were it to be won by one of the three other bidders, could leave the joint-ventures uneconomic and Fortune sub-scale....
...The fallout for Mr Lee from that story was predictable: three months later, Chase coughed up about $500m for the Beacon Group, a tiny mergers and acquisitions boutique, to obtain the services and cachet...
...The prince, who has substantial stakes in the three hotel chains – and also owns the Savoy in London and 25 per cent of the George V in Paris – launched a $3.2bn bid for Fairmont last week with Colony Capital...
...The former aide to Dick Cheney may have time for more writing since his resignation....
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