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...I love the brands. I love the project and the journey. Succession is not a topic we think about today. It will come in due time. And he’s a master of timing.”...
...L’Oréal is one of the world’s top 10 advertisers and spent more than €10bn on promoting its cosmetics, perfumes and shampoos last year alone....
...David McCann, analyst at Numis, said: “Whilst it is encouraging to see that Jupiter have taken some steps to mitigate Ben’s departure, we note the scale of assets under management involved and the likelihood...
...The issue of succession has been a recurring theme within Italian family-controlled luxury businesses....
...We then flash back to her life among circus folk, our first glimpse of a chorus in motley who infiltrate every scene with a succession of pointless routines. Pacing is all over the place....
...L’Huillier made the first breakthrough in a succession of discoveries that were to lead to attosecond physics at France’s Paris-Saclay university in 1987 and carried on her research after moving to Sweden...
...He quotes another 20th-century guru, the philosopher Walter Benjamin: “He said that sometimes it’s not the big events that capture a moment, sometimes it is the garbage of civilisation which captures that...
...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
...The ONS said vacancies, while still above pre-Covid levels, fell for the 19th month in succession in December, while the number of payrolled employees remained broadly stable....
...Did viewers of Succession expect women wearing tiaras in the bath and men in top hats lighting large cigars with high-denomination banknotes?...
...Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) From its cover (echoing the design of Isaacson’s earlier biography of Steve Jobs) to its size (nearly 700 pages), this account of the world’s highest profile...
...of Walter Crane’s classic designs,” in a collection inspired by woodblock prints, watercolour sketches and vintage textiles from the London museum’s hallowed archive....
...Dear reader, The western world’s gerontocracy scored another set of victories this week. Three bosses, all in their seventies, made headlines with their succession planning, or lack of it....
...The deaths of several board directors had already forced Berkshire to find new overseers. Walter Scott, a director for more than two decades, died in September 2021, aged 90....
...Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri dubbed her show Big Aura after Walter Benjamin’s definition of aura from his 1936 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” as something intrinsic to a work...
...Tanya, in The White Lotus, favours a set of mauve Globe-Trotters. Logan Roy in Succession was seen touting Métier’s no-nonsense duffle. But what would the rest of their peers carry on their holidays?...
...From this came a succession of jumpsuits, apron-front dresses and chore coats cut from humble cotton gabardine and drill, made to look as if they’d been thrown in the wash with a pot of dye by members of...
...Having cut output by 2mn barrels a day in October 2022, equivalent to 2 per cent of global consumption, Saudi Arabia has led a succession of cuts in 2023....
...Their deaths, including Walter Scott, Thomas Murphy and David “Sandy” Gottesman, have forced Berkshire to bring in a number of new overseers....
...Take a break from the news Here are the six finalists for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award — including Walter Isaacson’s newly published biography of Elon Musk....
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...Finally, a reminder of the launch this week of the FT’s central banks newsletter by Chris Giles....
...“What made Avoriaz a success was that it was a succession of completely crazy projects,” said Gérard Brémond....
...Sotheby’s top estimate by far is reserved for Picasso’s “Femme à la montre”, a bold painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter from the artist’s celebrated year of 1932, priced at more than $120mn....
...in the bathroom of Succession’s Shiv Roy....
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