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...Unilever’s new boss Hein Schumacher is swearing off the sweet treats, pledging to demerge its ice cream business as part of slimming down its bloated corporate footprint....
...As the Financial Times’ Helen Thomas writes: “the City seems impossibly torn between European social angst and US capitalist excess”....
...Kyaw Moe Tun thanked the US government, the US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield and her team, and security agencies “for your relentless efforts, assistance and support extended to me”....
...Christie’s is to offer a fine collection of works on paper, valued at about $16m, from the family of the London art dealer Thomas Gibson....
...He reported sales between €22,000 and €90,000, including works by Elmgreen & Dragset (who were at the fair), Jeppe Hein and the collective A Kassen....
...The exhibition was in the final stages of installation when Obee invited me to sit in one of Thomas Heatherwick’s “Magis Spun” chairs at the foot of the stairs of the Painted Hall....
...A plea by chief executive Thorsten Heins at the company’s annual meeting in July to give the group more time fell on deaf ears among a long-suffering investor base....
...They have questioned whether the turnround strategy of Thorsten Heins, chief executive, is working and if the company can stem continuing subscriber losses....
...Thorsten Heins, chief executive, described the launch of BB10 as a reinvention for the company....
...“RIM has been on a transformation journey from mobile communications to mobile computing,” said Mr Heins....
...Thorstein Heins, BlackBerry chief executive, said: “We have built an engine that is able to drive improved financial performance at lower volumes, which should allow us to generate additional benefits from...
...Barnett, centre stage with a bass guitar, was joined by his twin brother George on drums and Thomas Hein on electronics....
...He took over from Thorsten Heins, who resigned after the failure of BlackBerry’s latest range of smartphones....
...Thorsten Heins, chief executive, apologised on the company’s UK website, saying: “The BlackBerry service is now fully restored and I can report that no data or messages were lost....
...Blackberry’s chief executive Thorsten Heins, who bet the smartphone maker’s turnround on the launch of a new operating system and a range of new handsets, resigned....
...Churches (UK) Commissioner Clive Adams, Territorial Commander, Salvation Army, UK and ROI Revd Joel Edwards, Director, Micah Challenge International Rt Revd Mar Theodosius, Diocesan Epicsopa, Mar Thoma...
...- Highly wonkish stuff on DSGE models, via Mark Thoma....
...“It’s not necessarily about product simplification but making sure your products are understood,” says Mr Thomas....
...But the Essex quartet – singer Jack Barnett, his twin brother George, Thomas Hein and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson – cite a dizzying range of other musical inspirations, from Elgar to the Wu-Tang Clan....
...Farley Thomas, head of ETFs at HSBC, a relative novice in the market with nine plain vanilla funds launched since August 2009, says: “I’m not clear whether inverse or leveraged ETFs will be around in two...
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