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...In France, more than 16,000 people — campers, other holidaymakers and residents — have been evacuated to protect them from two big pine forest fires sweeping through the countryside of south-west France...
...A decade after he moved from Nevada to Silicon Valley in search of his slice of the technology boom, Victor Barrera’s tenuous toehold in one of America’s most expensive property markets finally slipped....
...Act II, a bit of a downer, proceeds with The Division of the Victors; each party claiming to personify the goals of the revolution, even though their ends are in irreconcilable conflict....
...And on the marinas side, First Eastern, the investment group of Hong Kong-based businessman Victor Chu, bought a stake in Camper & Nicholsons Marina Investments (CNMI), which is traded on London’s Aim and...
...Victor Mallet is the Financial Times’s Madrid bureau chief...
...To describe Camper as a stripped-out racing machine is an understatement....
...One sign of the shift to emerging markets was the joint venture agreed last month between First Eastern, the Hong Kong-based investment group, and Aim-traded Camper & Nicholsons Marina Investments (CNMI)...
...The scale of these proposals has attracted substantial interest, with Victor Chu, the Hong Kong entrepreneur, recently establishing a joint venture with the UK’s Camper & Nicholsons Marina Investments to...
...First Eastern, the investment group of Hong Kong-based businessman Victor Chu, is buying a stake in Aim-traded Camper & Nicholsons Marina Investments (CNMI) and establishing a 50-50 joint venture with it...
...Victor Mallet is the Financial Times’s Madrid bureau chief victor.mallet@ft.com...
...Last month, First Eastern, the investment group of Hong Kong-based businessman Victor Chu, established a joint venture with Aim-traded Camper & Nicholsons Marina Investments (CNMI) to develop luxury marina...
...“For a brand like ours, we think it can help us, give us a push upwards,” says Lorenzo Fluxà of Camper....
...“While there is wealth, people will go on building these yachts, and some of them are extraordinary things,” says Nick Maris, chairman of Camper & Nicholsons Marinas....
...Whereas Formula One races pay a few hundred thousand dollars to the winners, victors of Nascar races can take home upwards of $1.5m....
...First Eastern in deal to build Asia marinas First Eastern, the investment group of Hong Kong-based businessman Victor Chu, is buying a stake in Aim-traded Camper & Nicholsons Marina Investments (CNMI) and...
...Using slightly different data, the superyachting index compiled by Camper & Nicholsons International puts the number of deliveries last year at 213, with a total value of €4bn ($5bn), down from €5.45bn the...
...Nick Maris, chairman of Camper & Nicholsons Marinas, the marina management and development company, has come up with an intriguing nugget of information about sought-after superyacht berths in the western...
...Camper & Nicholsons International, the yacht group, which produces its own slightly different statistics in its annual Yachting Index, says that the crash in financial markets after the collapse of Lehman...
...Victor Mallet is the FT’s Madrid bureau chief and writes a regular column on sailing and yachting in the Weekend FT...
...Like campers huddled round the night-time fire, they beguiled the weary hours of incarceration by concocting spine-chillers for each other....
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