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...WPP signed global deals with Coca-Cola and Google during the period and won assignments from clients including AstraZeneca, L’Oréal and J Sainsbury....
...J&J has denied its talc contains asbestos and can cause cancer. This isn’t Jones Day’s first rodeo....
...First staged at London’s tiny Theatre503, J’Ouvert now plays the West End as part of the Re: Emerge season....
...Yet, the overall value of international broadcasting rights has increased, thanks mainly to new deals in Japan, where games will by shown by three broadcasters: J Sports, NHK and Nippon TV....
...Jayson Kerr Dobney, curator of the Met’s department of musical instruments, who co-organised the exhibition with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig J....
...In the wrong hands, it is more Colonel Sanders than Tom Wolfe. It can be an awkward statement to make....
...The football J League has boomed since its formation in 1992, and had an average attendance of just under 20,000 fans for top flight games last season....
...Smart reads Rusted metal J Aron, the commodities broker that Goldman Sachs bought nearly 40 years ago, produced a deep bench of management talent including Lloyd Blankfein....
...The company has merged some of its businesses, such as the public relations firms Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe, and the media agencies Maxus and MEC....
...Other significant tie-ups of late include Peter J Solomon selling to Natixis and Perella Weinberg buying Tudor Pickering....
...Recent fights at private equity deals gone bad like Caesars, J Crew and iHeartMedia, have turned nasty. Only a miracle will prevent hell from being unleashed when the next bankruptcy wave comes....
...Wanda Murren, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania secretary of state’s office, said no significant problems had been encountered. “It’s going quite well,” she said....
...Nathan Hill’s grand and sprawling debut immediately brings to mind books by the likes of John Irving (who provides an admiring cover endorsement), Tom Wolfe, Michael Chabon and Donna Tartt....
...In 2007, Universal gained a theme-park licence for the wizard franchise from Warner Brothers, makers of the Harry Potter movies, and J.K. Rowling, author of the books....
...The End of the World Running Club, by Adrian J Walker, Del Rey, RRP£7.99 After an asteroid strike destroys most of Britain, Ed finds himself separated from his wife and children....
...China Merchants Property Development, Gemdale, Wanda and Greenland Holding have all also pursued backdoor listings in Hong Kong for pools of properties this year....
...This ruse, part of an aggressive marketing campaign, was not carried out in the developing world but the US, where J&J paid a $2.2bn fine last month for practices stretching back over a decade....
...Last year Wanda Group paid $2.6bn for AMC Entertainment in the biggest completed takeover of a US company....
...Peter J Solomon Company advised PVH. JPMorgan advised Warnaco. Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch and Citigroup will provide financing for the deal....
...Almost $8bn of deals have been announced so far this year, led by Dalian Wanda’s $2.6bn takeover of AMC Entertainment, the US cinema chain, and Sinopec’s $2.4bn acquisition of big stakes in a number of oil...
...masochism”, this interval-less 100-minute evening, offered by Manhattan Theatre Club, features the primary relationship that Sacher-Masoch describes in his book: a man, Severin, is so in thrall to a woman, Wanda...
...Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, by DT Max, Granta, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$27.95, 368 pages Conversations with David Foster Wallace, edited by Stephen J....
...The hope is that companies can engage with customers over the web, get ideas from them or, as Donna Imperato, chief executive of Cohn & Wolfe, one of WPP’s companies, puts it, turn them into “brand evangelists...
...A surprising amount was spent commenting on the newly lithe frame of Potter’s creator, J.K. Rowling – and the clothes adorning it....
...Johnson, her story of the court battle surrounding J. Seward Johnson’s $500m will, and her novel The Straw Man....
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