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...GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp Design Studio Designer and hotelier Kit Kemp’s first collaboration with British fabric and wallpaper house GP & J Baker transmutes her eclectic style into colour-saturated prints...
...Baker McKenzie has hired Eric Schwartzman as a partner in San Francisco. Schwartzman, who joins from Latham & Watkins, will be head of private equity in California....
...department of an old-school publishing house (Gollancz) and then the Evening Standard gossip pages, finally making it in 1988 into the literary editor’s chair at that paper, recently vacated by his friend Valerie...
...In the sense that Madonna, with her constant churn of images and styles, is like a female Bowie, we might see her as a Mick, and when reading an FT interview with Joyce Carol Oates, it struck me that she...
...“I grew up in a world not different from Norma Jeane Baker, and my mother was about that age....
...“There’s only so many tax investors that can write the big cheque,” said Mike Joyce, a Vinson & Elkins deal lawyer. “The IRA has unlocked and dealt with some of the capacity logjam.”...
...But the abiding influence is that of Banville’s lodestar, James Joyce....
...Joyce DiDonato’s Eden project is not quite going according to plan....
...Despite scandals at Carillion, Patisserie Valerie, NMC Health, Thomas Cook, Eddie Stobart, Ted Baker and other companies, the UK has dropped audit reform from its next legislative programme....
...“More and more companies are turning away from the dirty barrels and Venezuelan crude is among the dirtiest,” said Valérie Marcel, an energy expert at Chatham House in London....
...Steve Baker, a Tory MP, tweeted: “This is a farce.”...
...Grant Thornton is under investigation for its audit of the failed bakery chain Patisserie Valerie for the 2015-2017 financial years....
...Murphy, France Crossword 16,164: Robert Langston, Somerset; Allen Boxer, Berlin; Anthony G Santucci, Washington Polymath 1,021: R Goodfellow, Surrey Crossword 16,158: John Johnston, New York; Annie Baker...
...matthew.vincent@ft.com Ted Baker: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...Finnish Ecomodernists Take Aanstoot Founder and Chair, Swedish Ecomodernist Society Adam Blazowski FOTA4Climate, Poland Pavel Gajda Institute of Sustainable Energy, Poland Marc Deffrennes weCARE Valerie...
...The administrators of collapsed bakery chain Patisserie Valerie have sold off another slice of the business with the disposal of its Baker & Spice bread cafés to independent coffee chain Department of Coffee...
...RSM was called Baker Tilly before it acquired the trading subsidiaries of RSM Tenon in 2013....
...He lent Patisserie Holdings, the owner of the Patisserie Valerie, Philpotts and Baker & Spice chains, a net £10m shortly after it revealed an accounting scandal that ultimately led to its demise, and another...
...He lent Patisserie Holdings, the owner of the Patisserie Valerie, Philpotts and Baker & Spice chains, a net £10m shortly after it revealed the accounting scandal that ultimately led to its demise, and another...
...The Patisserie Valerie unit was sold to Causeway Capital for £8m, of which £3m is deferred, with Baker & Space sold to the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs for £2.5m and Philpotts sold to A F Blakemore...
...Two other chains in the Patisserie Holdings group, Philpotts and Baker & Spice, were sold to other buyers....
...KPMG, joint administrators to Patisserie Valerie, said a decision on Baker & Spice, another brand in the group, would be made in due course. Patisserie Valerie was founded in 1926....
...For a baker, 3am is the middle of the working day. So it was perhaps appropriate that the deal to “save” bankrupt cake maker Patisserie Valerie came at 3am on Thursday morning....
...For some, this may be the chance to finally get around to finishing Joyce or Proust, or to seek solace in works elsewhere....
...Mr Scaife said that Causeway was the right owner for Patisserie Valerie because it already had experience in cafés through its stake in BB’s Bakers + Baristas, a UK and Irish coffee chain....
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