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...round-up French insurer Axa takes full control of Chinese venture (FT) SoftBank relaxed about price of India investments (FT) Learning the lessons of GE’s steepening decline (FT View) WPP to merge J Walter...
...in and out of the traffic, hurling themselves on to roundabouts and taking advantage of the slightest pause or hesitation to squeeze into too-small spaces are replaced by the motorised equivalent of Sir Walter...
...People interviewed for this article likened WPP to ITT in the US, where Harold Geneen was CEO until 1977, or Hanson, the industrial group assembled by James Hanson and Gordon White in the 1970s and 1980s...
...… We Live in Water, by Jess Walter, Penguin, RRP£8.99/Harper Perennial, RRP$14.99 Best known for his 2012 Beautiful Ruins , Walter centres these stories of down-at-heel American life around his home...
...According to his biographer Walter Isaacson, when Jobs was at Atari in the 1970s he was deployed alongside an engineer called Don Lang....
...Toby Fowlston is director of commercial and professional services and Andrew Hanson is director of financial services, both at Robert Walters. Are salaries in the UK rising?...
...Andrew Hanson, a director in the financial services business at recruiter Robert Walters, says, however, that the industry often remains reluctant to look outside the insurance world for the people it needs...
...“It is a massive step change to relocate a head office,” says Andrew Hanson, director of financial services recruitment at Robert Walters, the search agency....
...To the claques who have been nightly packing the Walter Kerr Theatre, the fact that Stritch may not always have been line-perfect during previews makes no matter. She is there. That is sufficient....
...With the transfer of Trevor Nunn’s London production of the show, re-cast except for Alexander Hanson as the lawyer Fredrik Egerman, the dream has been realised....
...Josef Walter, owner of a sports and shoe shop, is disgusted at the bankers who failed to support Merckle....
...Josef Walter, owner of a sports and shoe shop, is disgusted at the bankers who failed to support Merckle, calling them “delinquents”....
...Some of last year's biggest deals were in fact private equity houses selling to each other, such as Doughty Hanson's sale of Auto-Teile Unger, the car parts group, to KKR....
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