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FT MagazineSimon Kuper
Paris, city of the future
...The Paris region is number one in the world for R&D investments.” Paris is also becoming more liveable — if you don’t drive....
December 7, 2023
FT Magazine
Why the movies never got over Gordon Gekko
...Some of them were at a recent screening of the film, part of a tribute to producer Edward R Pressman, who died in January....
October 6, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
City Bulletin
Grant Thornton fined £2.3m for Patisserie Valerie failings Premium content
...Three years from foul to fine counts as lightning fast for the accounting watchdog, which this morning fined Grant Thornton over the Patisserie Valerie fiasco....
September 27, 2021
The best beauty buys of 2020
Winemakers are stepping into the beauty game. Do they measure up?
...Grape-seed oil is a key component of many home masks and serums, including Summer Fridays’ R+R Mask, Sunday Riley’s Luna Sleeping Night Oil and the divine Kypris Beauty Elixir 1, which also contains Bulgarian...
November 22, 2020
Executive Pay
SIG faces shareholder revolt over chief’s one-off payout
...the payment for Steve Francis, who joined SIG in February as interim chief executive, after he developed a “compelling new strategy” including a £165m capital raising backed by private equity investor CD&R....
July 2, 2020
News in-depthEM Squared
Serbia’s embrace of Chinese FDI raises questions of transparency Premium content
...Valerie Hopkins is the FT’s south-east Europe correspondent....
February 7, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
LombardMatthew Vincent
Audit watchdog captures the mood with Big Four break-up plan
...Having been appointed to get tough on auditors, after they failed to spot the demise of Carillion, BHS and Patisserie Valerie, he told the Financial Times: “The real question is how do you make [Big Four...
November 7, 2019
European People’s Party
Europe’s centre-right congratulates itself after Orban suspension
...The terms of the suspension showed that Mr Orban was above punishment for eroding the rule of law and increasing his grip on independent media, said R....
March 21, 2019
World5 min
Cuba constitution vote, UK bank results, Walmart earnings
...The FT's Valerie Hopkins has more....
February 17, 2019
Special ReportInvesting in Central and Eastern Europe
Hungary ties growth to bumper of German carmakers
...This month, the UK’s largest automotive manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, announced it would be opening a technical engineering office in Hungary in January with 100 new jobs to “complement corporate, R&D...
November 22, 2018
Due Diligence
Race is on to salvage WeWork IPO as billions hang in the balance Premium content
...As John McClain, a portfolio manager at Diamond Hill Capital Management, told the FT’s Joe Rennison, he couldn’t remember another unicorn having “zero support from either debt or equity investors”....
September 18, 2019
Music
Mark Ronson opens up about his new album ‘Late Night Feelings’
...“Uptown Funk”, with Bruno Mars on vocals, was an update of the “Minneapolis sound” of funk, pop and R&B....
June 14, 2019
Due Diligence
The inside story on how Apollo’s buyout of Arconic collapsed Premium content
...Caesars, J Crew, Sears, Toys R Us and iHeartMedia are just some of the examples in recent years where pre-bankruptcy wheeling and dealing left creditors cold and looking for vengeance....
January 23, 2019
Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
To raise audit standards, you must change accounting standards
...On Monday, Patisserie Valerie was a fast-growing quoted chain of cake shops with £29m of net cash in the bank, a £450m market capitalisation, and an executive chairman, Luke Johnson, who was among the country...
October 14, 2018
FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
Crypto's most devout believers are suffering a crisis of faith
...Valerie Lettan of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, the brokerage where the property is listed, explained it to us: The reason for the higher sale price in cryptocurrency is due to the volatility in the market...
May 30, 2018
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Life & Arts
On Margate sands: Turner gallery honours The Waste Land’s impact
...Eliot’s furrowed features fractured into flattened planes, the other showing the poet monumental, huddled in an overcoat (Heron “captured a mood of mingled sweetness and sadness,” said Eliot’s second wife, Valerie...
February 2, 2018
Frank Tontoh, 606 Club, London — review
...A crisp opening press roll confirmed class, then an authoritative snare-drum snap cued the slinky bass of “Georgie Porgie”’s mid-tempo R&B....
December 20, 2016
Financial Advice
Duty of care is likely to push fees down
...“The DoL rule will have a [positive] impact for investors who have been maybe taken advantage of by high-commission products,” says Scott Hanson, co-chief executive at Hanson McClain Advisors, based in Sacramento...
June 15, 2016
US & Canadian companies
Twitter targets emerging markets with Indian R&D centre
...“We will be the starting point for a much larger R&D centre [in Bangalore] in future,” she said....
February 4, 2015
Luke JohnsonLuke Johnson
The thrill of searching for the right business site
...There is nothing more exciting than coming across a new neighbourhood, and alighting upon the perfect building for a branch of Patisserie Valerie, Gail’s, Philpotts, Rocket, Draft House, Feng Sushi or a...
September 2, 2014
MBA blogBusiness education
The community spirit of business school
...Although the time off from recruiting, classes and clubs certainly provided some much needed R&R, it also gave me a chance to spend a lot more time not just with the Ross friends who have already become...
January 6, 2014
World
High-profile Chicago prosecutor steps down
...In 2003 Mr Fitzgerald was appointed special prosecutor in the investigation into the Valerie Plame case, which probed whether White House officials and the vice-president’s office broke protocol by leaking...
May 23, 2012
Q&ABusiness education
Web chat: Valerie Keller
...Valerie: This is a great question, thank you....
March 8, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Azealia Banks, Heaven, London
...Her songs’ blend of stripped-down dance beats and R&B/hip-hop didn’t mesh as well as on record....
February 28, 2012
US & Canadian companies
Weakness drives Peugeot-GM talks
...Citi analyst Philip Watkins, in a research note, wrote that the proposed PSA-GM alliance “could bring potential savings in terms of purchasing clout and shared R&D expenses”....
February 22, 2012

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