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...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Williams-Sonoma president and chief executive Laura Alber noted the “continued strength” carried over from a “robust fourth quarter” to kick off fiscal 2018....
...When Dell first proposed a reverse merger with its listed affiliate, DVMT, the PC maker valued its private shares at $79.77 each....
...If it’s not that, it’s not securities fraud,” said William White, a former senior trial counsel in the SEC’s enforcement division, and now a partner at Allen & Overy....
...Mr Dell has been vociferous about the attractions of operating away from the public gaze since taking his PC company private in 2013, arguing that it has freed him to take a longer-term view....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...HPE and HP Inc, the new name for the PC and printer company, will both be “big, strong companies with global reach”, she says. Yet the long-term outlook is far from assured....
...Many users connect the new push to monetise Weibo to the acquisition of an 18 per cent stake in the company by ecommerce conglomerate Alibaba last April....
...Before the offering, Twitter’s largest shareholder was Mr Williams, with a 12 per cent stake....
...After selling a company called NaviSoft to AOL in 1994, he became the group’s head of corporate development, leading its acquisitions of CompuServe and Netscape....
...It has made three such acquisitions in the past month....
...MED-V is a software tool that enables you to keep using old applications designed for Windows XP even when the PCs are running the latest Windows 7....
...Gourmet cookware retailer Williams-Sonoma rose 12.3 per cent to $27.10 after posting strong fourth-quarter results that easily beat analyst estimates....
...Encouraging sales in the holiday period prompted Williams-Sonoma to give a higher forecast for the fourth quarter than analysts had expected....
...“They’re between netbooks and notebooks, sexy and thin but with the full PC experience” is his definition....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...The jury may still be out on whether Lenovo is bound to be a global PC leader. But having survived a landmark acquisition and a financial crisis, it has clearly proved its resilience. www.ft.com/decade...
...Barnes & Noble’s move follows its acquisition this year of Fictionwise, the web’s largest e-book store....
...Cisco has been moving steadily into consumer markets for years (not least through the acquisitions of wireless router company Linksys and set top box maker Scientific Atlanta), but this year’s CES has finally...
...John Browett, chief executive, now plans to spruce up more than half of his 570 PC World and Currys stores by the middle of 2011 on the back of a 60-store trial....
...The remarks underline how Lenovo is adjusting its strategy from a focus on premium brands that it adopted following its acquisition of IBM’s PC unit in 2005, and turning to its traditional aggressive business...
...William Amelio, Lenovo’s president and chief executive officer, said in November that the company would look for acquisition targets to “gain scale and consolidate the industry”....
...Williams-Sonoma narrowly beat estimates for its quarterly earnings, but shares in the retailer fell 9.6 per cent to $16.67 as it cut its forecasts....
...To put that in perspective, competitors Kesa – owner of Comet – and DSG International -–which runs PC World and Currys – have operating margins of just 1 per cent....
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