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...French cosmetics giant L’Oréal swooped when the UK retailer went on the block, paying £652.3mn in 2006, and flipping it to Brazil’s Natura for €1bn 11 years later....
...Attention to detail is conspicuous, from the suite amenities, including L’Occitane toiletries, hair tools and Nespresso coffee machines, to the thoughtful service of the staff....
...(Financière Agache, the family holding company of LVMH boss Bernard Arnault, was one of the main investors in the IPO.)...
...Job moves Law firm Kirkland & Ellis has cut associates in California and Texas....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
...It begins with a film studies professor (Samara Weaving) holding forth on the genre as outsider art, before abruptly discovering the downside of giving C minus marks for essays on Italian giallo chillers...
...Former Salesforce co-chief Keith Block has launched Smith Point Capital with Vista Equity Partners’ Burke Norton and Longfellow Capital’s Chris Lytle....
...Its model has been widely adopted across Canada’s public sector — CPP Investments, established in 1999 to oversee and invest the assets of the Canada Pension Plan, has grown from just C$12mn to C$536bn and...
...An impressively ambitious show for a regional gallery, it’s the first UK display of Chaïm Soutine’s landscapes in four decades, and worth the trip for his frenzied vistas of Céret alone....
...Real Return fund, which avoids companies incompatible with the aim of limiting global warming to 2°C....
...From €150, riadmenaandbeyond.com Gisela Williams El Cosmico, Marfa, Texas The grande dame of Texas hospitality, Liz Lambert, launched this nomadic hotel in Marfa, the small west Texas town with an outsized...
...LVMH-backed private equity group L Catterton has hired Ian Friedman as a partner and managing director in its growth fund. He was previously co-head of Goldman Sachs’ growth equity team....
...Liberty Media and the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the motorsport’s governing body, persuaded teams to agree to a cost cap to help level the playing field....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages, said the rise to 1 per cent could leave borrowers on a 25-year repayment mortgage at a standard variable rate of 4.24 per cent paying an extra...
...Anyway, here are names and links — we’ll let you make your own mind up: Liquid 2 Venture Fund III L.P . . . . Lake Nona Fund / LN Sports & Health Tech Fund I, LP . . ....
...That’s F-L-I-C. For more information about your rights as a tenant, do check out the Generation Rent website. Jason Butler is on Instagram and Twitter. He’s @jbthewealthman. Timi is @mrmoneyjar....
...He credits his huge majorities in 2015 and 2017 to the “small-L liberal conservative values” that underpin the seat — though his personal politics are those of a steely-eyed Brexiter....
...(Bloomberg) Texas hold ’em The secretive real estate mogul Sun Guangxin has bought up 140,000 acres of Texas land where he plans to build a wind farm....
...“Anything below 1 per cent is really just clinging on now,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...An earthly sky seems to burst open to a vista of heaven....
...Refining capacity is to shrink c.30% by 2030, from c.1.7mbd to 1.5mbd by 2025 then to 1.2mbd by 2030....
...David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C, said that the options for low-deposit lending were already limited as the housing market emerges from lockdown....
...Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden, England; James Simpson, France; Hugh Guilford, Buckinghamshire, England Polymath 1,064: Michael Foottit, London Crossword 16,413: James Leaver, Sydney; Ardeshir Dalal, Texas...
...climate scientists used satellite data to show that the lower Mekong’s flow was at its lowest for 50 years not because of lack of precipitation on the Tibetan plateau but because China’s new dams there were holding...
...Because of its merger with Sprint in Apr-20, TMUS's portfolio of spectrum below 6 GHz is now c.3x that of Verizon and c.2x that of AT&T....
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