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...Demand and Supply: China’s ice cream brands outpace inflation with soaring prices Market failure: Would carbon food labels change the way you shop?...
...ValueAct, the activist investor, has promoted partner Robert Hale to be co-chief executive alongside Mason Morfit, according to Reuters....
...In recent months it has held discussions with Citigroup chief financial officer Mark Mason and outgoing Morgan Stanley chief operating officer Jonathan Pruzan....
...Mr Venters is fulsome in his praise for the Weston family, who have provided around £60m of investment capital to fund his modernisation and diversification plans....
...Fuss started his career in finance in 1958, when he left the US Navy for a job at Wauwatosa State Bank in Wisconsin....
...Among last year’s intake was Taha Jangda, a partner at HealthX Ventures, an early-stage fund based in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing on digital healthcare investments....
...White & Case has hired Ferdinand Mason as a partner in its global M&A practice. He joins the London office from Jones Day....
...Meagre interest rates and cheap, low-risk funds have forced asset prices upwards. The ICE BofA BBB bond spread is currently under 2 per cent....
...A British teenager staged a climate protest on an Arctic ice floe....
...“We are entering a different phase in investment-grade . . . and issuance is clearly slowing from the breakneck pace of April,” said Pete Mason, head of debt capital markets Emea at Barclays....
...So far the public’s conception of a “crisis” has more to do with their lights going out than what is happening to Arctic sea ice. The financial markets reflect that reality....
...CityFibre, a broadband infrastructure provider, put a £200m agreement to buy TalkTalk’s fibre business on ice after Labour’s announcement....
...While Fonterra sold its profitable Tip Top ice cream business for NZ$380m in May, he said finding a buyer for its lossmaking businesses would be much harder....
...“We are also looking at the opportunities presented by Arctic ice melt in logistics and shipping,” she says....
...Law firm Pinsent Masons has hired Lucy Thomas as a partner. Thomas previously held the same title at Ashurst. Investec has hired Tom Glover as head of the bank’s fund finance business in New York....
...Beijing is hosting the Winter Olympics in 2022 and investors continue to bring in more international sporting events, from ice hockey to lawn tennis....
...(FT) Vanilla ice cream under threat?...
...Yet while Mr Sprecher has been one of the most opportunistic and active consolidators in the exchange industry, the 61-year old native of Wisconsin has always been the ultimate industry outsider....
...The devastated scientist joins an Antarctic tour ship as the onboard ice expert....
...In February, he bought a minority stake in the Minnesota Wild ice hockey team....
...their savings, reducing charges — on ice due to a perceived lack of demand....
...“I would like to think that I am a keyman risk for Loomis but my main job is approving the monthly ice cream budget,” says Mr Fuss, a legendary ice cream fan, known to some of his peers as the real king...
...” … I eat the light and delicious spring rolls as Andreessen clunks his ice with his straw. I ask if there is an issue with the lack of female entrepreneurs....
...(Reuters) Wisconsin Energy will acquire Integrys Energy Group for $9.1bn, including debt, in the latest sign of the flurry of consolidation in the US utility market....
...His passion for sports, having played basketball and ice hockey at university, has translated into a competitive but focused professional ambition at the $655bn multi-affiliate fund house....
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