Hints and tips:
...BNP Paribas has appointed 10 bankers to senior roles including Wells Fargo’s Vanessa Dager to lead M&A in North America....
...I ask Carey McDonald, UUA executive vice-president, why this might be....
...In the historic central district, public sector workers have been protesting against their salaries, worth just $11.14 a month, barely enough to buy a McDonald’s Happy Meal in Caracas....
...(Simon Mundy) Vanessa Nakate is still waiting for answers The evening before we met in Davos this week, Vanessa Nakate had spoken at a dinner event thickly populated by western business executives....
...A friend revealed on Instagram recently that she had recreated a cancelled holiday in the Loire at home, with a blindfolded wine tasting and a Vanessa Paradis soundtrack....
...The FCA’s announcement pushes climate considerations further to the fore for UK board directors, said Vanessa Havard-Williams, a partner at Linklaters....
...“People in positions of power tend to be oblivious to the influence they wield over others because they are less likely to take the other party’s perspective,” says Vanessa Bohns, a social psychology professor...
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Vanessa Burrows as a counsel specialising in healthcare regulatory matters. Burrows was previously an associate at McDermott Will & Emery....
...A number of companies, including McDonald’s and Starbucks, have moved headquarters or other parts of their operations to the UK....
...McDonald’s said that from 2011-2015, it paid more than $2.5bn in corporate taxes in the EU, with an average tax rate approaching 27 per cent....
...The commission states that McDonald’s obtained two tax rulings — letters clarifying tax obligations — from Luxembourg in 2009 that ensured that it paid no corporate tax on the profits of McDonald’s Europe...
...Vanessa Robert, an analyst at Moody’s, the rating agency, said there has been a “flight to safety” this year....
...The European Commission is also pursuing an investigation into whether some EU governments used illegal state aid when giving tax breaks to large multinational companies, including Apple, Amazon and McDonald...
...Earlier this year, McDonald’s, the fast-food group that serves the largest number of cups of coffee in Britain, was accused of avoiding €1bn of taxes over five years by funnelling royalties through Luxembourg...
...But not on Charlie Rose. ——————————————- vanessa.friedman@ft.com @VVFriedman More columns at ft.com/friedman...
...Mr Scott could not have known, of course, when he was designing his riff on Moschino/McDonald’s – his pun on fast food and fast fashion realised in red and yellow bourgeois suiting complete with golden arches-cum-hearts...
...vanessa.friedman@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
...The agreement was drawn up by the IOC to protect companies – including British Airways, Thames Water, McDonald's, Visa and Deloitte – that have paid more than £1bn towards the games....
...“The main risk is that McDonald’s [an official sponsor] was once a sole trader . . . you don’t want one of these [small] businesses to grow and become a major competitor in the marketplace, which certainly...
...McDonald’s has been an Olympic sponsor since 1976 and became a global partner in 1988. IOC president Jacques Rogge said he was “delighted” McDonald’s was continuing to help fund the games....
...Small companies seeking to cash in on the Olympics normally do not get a look-in on the big sponsorship deals led by multinationals such as Coca-Cola and McDonald’s....
...This two-way trippery is shown by artists who embody the migrations in their lifelines: the half-Japanese Peter McDonald, who has pretty much reinvented the conversation piece with its licence to eavesdrop...
...Bruce Oldfield did it for McDonald’s staff last year; 40 years ago Emilio Pucci created a uniform for Braniff International Airways, as Julien Macdonald did, more recently, for British Airways....
...Presumably the guest-list adviser was the same person who decided last year that classical violinist Vanessa Mae, Blue Peter television presenter Konnie Huq and ITV newsreader Trevor McDonald – all wholly...
...He worked in a McDonald’s to put himself through graduate school and later moved to the east coast with his wife, Kunta....
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