Hints and tips:
...My best ideas come when I’m looking at fabric, often inside mills like Bower Roebuck in the north of England, Adamley Textiles in Macclesfield or Fox in Somerset....
...Tony Danker, director-general of the CBI, the UK business association, was the guest speaker. The authors of five other shortlisted books received £10,000....
...The smart home pioneer, which makes internet-connected thermostats, cameras and smoke alarms, was founded by Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers in 2010 and was acquired by Google for $3.2bn in 2014....
...“Valuations are higher and on average the fundamentals of large US companies are better than what you find elsewhere,” says Tony Despirito, chief investment officer of US fundamental equities at BlackRock...
...“I thought history would be kind to Nick Clegg,” says Chris Bowers, a Lib Dem activist and author of a sympathetic 2012 biography. “I changed my mind . . ....
...Here are the three authors shortlisted for the FT and McKinsey’s Bracken Bower Prize 2020 for the best business book proposal; read excerpts of their proposals here....
...Bowers & Wilkins, for example, began in 1966 in an electrical shop in Worthing, Sussex and is now in high-end stores across the world....
...Tony Curtis bought a painting from my show there, and he used to take it with him when he travelled.”...
...Helen Bower, who served as spokesperson to David Cameron and Mrs May, also quit before the election, as did Simon Case, who was head of the Downing Street office as principal private secretary....
...Broken Vows: Tony Blair, The Tragedy of Power, by Tom Bower, Faber, RRP£20, 688 pages Tom Bower’s list of biographical targets includes Robert Maxwell, Conrad Black, Mohamed al-Fayed and Klaus Barbie;...
...No Angel, Tom Bower’s biography, opens with him striding across the paddock with Mick Jagger and Naomi Campbell, and greeting Jennifer Lopez and Sir Philip Green....
...Natalie Dew gives a winning performance as Jess; Twilight and Harry Potter alumnus Jamie Campbell Bower offers youthful eye candy as coach Joe (and also gets the breakout musical number “More Fool Me”);...
...Read extracts from this year’s Bracken Bower Prize finalists....
...From the statement: Tony Bowers, Senior Independent Director and Vice Chairman of Quindell said: “We are pleased that following the co-ordinated shorting attack led by Gotham and others, we have been able...
...In Beijing and in Brisbane, Mr Obama will also have to rub shoulders with – but not “shirt-front” in the words of Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister – Russian president Vladimir Putin for the first...
...Tony Bowers, senior independent director and vice-chairman of Quindell, said the company was pleased to have successfully defended itself against the “co-ordinated shorting attack”....
...“It is disappointing that my executive directors have been forced to spend time responding to these allegations,” vice-chairman Tony Bowers said in the statement....
...Their undisclosed 2009 divorce settlement – estimated at more than $1bn – was probably the largest in UK history, says Mr Bower....
...The outsized “Golden Spoon” placed in a bower invites you to sit in it, while the crescent “Moon Mask”, flat as paper, with an encrusted white patina suggesting chewing gum, glimmers at dusk....
...instinct got him through most scrapes, there were times when he lost control of events, such as the aborted flotation of F1 and the controversy over his £1m donation to the UK Labour party when it was led by Tony...
...Ever the engineering patriot, he strokes some Bowers & Wilkins speakers, made in Britain, before sitting on a sofa with a mere nine cushions....
...Tony Hayward of BP has handled that role with distinction....
...William Bowers, director of the CJP, points out that in a case involving the death penalty, if a defendant maintains his innocence, he has lost his strongest mitigating factor for a life sentence....
...tony.jackson@ft.com...
...THE ADVICE The academic Joseph Bower When companies recruit CEOs from outside, they make a losing bet. On average, insiders do better whether prior performance was poor or good....
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