Hints and tips:
...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...Ahead of Citi’s AGM on April 25, the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace, which owns a small stake in the bank as part of its wider investment portfolio, filed a resolution calling on the board to report on what...
...This point is made concisely in a recent post from the St Louis Fed....
...Implementing the proposals could undermine the company’s core business model, said Merck in response to a proposal made by The Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph....
...“Clearly, in long-short equity it’s been a complete disaster,” said Scott Wilson, chief investment officer of the endowment fund at the Washington University in St Louis....
...The gas is also used in food and drink production and packaging....
...Last week, Blackstone increased its offer for St Modwen Properties after shareholders objected to the original price....
...The UK group, which provides clinical, commercial, communication and packaging services for the healthcare industry, will set a new schedule for shareholder approval if an increased bid is tendered....
...One woman, he adds, is sending an object in from Australia: “She’s going to record a film of her packaging it and taking it to the post office....
...Several other high-priced items in the collection, such as a composition by Franz Klein and Joseph Stella, fell below their lowest estimates....
...the Lamassu, one of the deity-statues that used to guard the entrance to the city of Nineveh, which stood on the outskirts of the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is made out of date-syrup cans and packaging...
...And the best one I’ve received recently was a preface to my monograph, Joseph Dirand: Interior, from my brother Adrien....
...Other highlights include Joseph Wright’s “An Academy in Lamplight”, estimated at between £2.5m and £3m....
...with €3.9bn Ablynx deal (FT) Sanofi/Novo Nordisk: blood money (FT Lex) Dell is considering a sale to VMware in what may be tech’s biggest deal ever (CNBC) UBS bankers ’frustrated’ with growth on Wall St...
...Joseph Song, economist at Bank of America, argued that the July report was “positive across the board” but pointed to the Phillips Curve puzzle....
...(FT) Japan Inc goes global for M&A advice Only three domestic brokerages rank among the top-ten deal advisers in Japan during the third quarter. Why is Japan Inc looking for foreign advice?...
...He said that the £20m in annual cost savings that Post would seek from the deal would come from procurement synergies, such as in packaging, rather than redundancies....
...In fact, many of the best-known premium babycare brands are controlled by large multinational companies, despite their homey packaging and cute names....
...Sourcing cold cereal from the same box saves money that would otherwise be spent on packaging the food into single servings....
...It is not even St Patrick’s day....
...Mondi also issued a well-received trading update, leaving the South Africa-based paper and packaging company’s shares 2.3 per cent higher at £10.84....
...For the moment it continues with BAT resisting UK government plans for plain packaging....
...(Financial Times) St James’s Place pulls £8bn from Invesco Perpetual: Invesco Perpetual has suffered the biggest blow yet from the impending exit of Neil Woodford after St James’s Place said it would pull...
...(Financial Times) Wall St falls out of love with commodities trading....
...But most readers will agree with Joseph Stiglitz, who wrote in his FT review: “Martin Wolf has outdone himself....
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