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...News of the proposed sale comes seven months after Vladimir Putin issued a decree putting Danone’s and Danish brewer Carlsberg’s Russian businesses under “temporary external management” as Moscow began taking...
...Russian authorities have arrested senior executives at Carlsberg’s seized subsidiary Baltika Breweries under criminal charges of fraud as the battle over the rights to the Danish brewer’s brand licences...
...When Carlsberg took full control of Baltika in 2008, the country made up 40 per cent of the group’s profits but lost market share as more foreign brewers arrived....
...Approvals restarted in December, with companies including Japanese multinational tyre manufacturer Bridgestone and brewer AB InBev announcing exits this week....
...The French dairy group had been close to finalising a Rothschild-brokered deal to leave Russia when the Kremlin declared its local operations, along with those of Danish brewer Carlsberg, had been placed...
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...One alternative was royal backing to become mayor and tilt the axis of City power towards the mercers and against their deadly rivals, the grocers and brewers....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Gainsborough was born and grew up here, the son of a weaver. As a successful artist he lived in Ipswich, then fashionable Bath and, finally, London....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...And finally . . . it’s the last chance to see three of only four existing textiles spun from the naturally golden silk of millions of orb-weaver spiders, at Oliver Hoare Limited in London’s Cromwell Place...
...What really interests both designers is reinterpreting classic menswear staples such as varsity jackets, skinny jeans, pea coats and V-neck sweaters through craft and manipulation....
...Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor to Mr Trump, said while the GDP numbers appeared to validate the president’s promise of a “V-shaped recovery”, they may have come too late in the campaign to help Mr Trump...
...Job moves Carlos Brito, who transformed a Brazilian regional brewer into the world’s largest beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev, is to step down as chief executive after 15 years....
...If the economy bounces back and we have a V shaped recovery, as Morgan Stanley has suggested, oil demand will return without the necessary and corresponding investment in production....
...years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, ‘begged’ me for a non Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don’t do it, sir,’ takes the job, mistakenly says ‘Libyan Model on T.V....
...Our Washington correspondent Courtney Weaver has more. Really what all these candidates are saying is that they are the best candidate to beat Donald Trump....
...Additional reporting by Courtney Weaver in Washington...
...1,037: Michael Crapper, Whitchurch Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver...
...says a soldier, fearing a different enemy, in Henry V. “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.”...
...Ms Schoen said she believed it was unlikely that the court would overturn Roe v Wade....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...The brewing industry has become increasingly polarised between the very big and the very small (micro brewers) given scale efficiencies in production, distribution and marketing....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
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