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...“There’s more known about space travel than there is about soil health,” says Tom Gregory, gulping down a cup of tea and glancing out from his farmhouse kitchen at a valley of green fields....
...According to S&P Global, in the first nine months of 2023 global private equity investments had an aggregate value of $365.3bn, a decline of 44 per cent year over year....
...But the other half came through acquisitions, including investments in healthier snacks such as Kind bars and 2017’s $9.1bn purchase of a veterinary services business called VCA....
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...Meanwhile, a boom in Europe’s “dark kitchens”, where takeaway meals are prepared solely for sale on delivery apps, could make the industry greener....
...Lazy Susan makes use of empty kitchen space in a restaurant that closed during the pandemic, but Li says delivery costs are still too high....
...It is revamping its Model S though (see Tech Tools below)....
...While it’s tempting to put these impressive sales down to affordable new models such as VW’s ID3, Renault’s Zoe and Kia’s Niro, incentives also mattered....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...As a boy, his own first business venture was selling frozen pizzas reheated in his mother’s kitchen (the health department shut him down)....
...Unlike Herman Miller’s founder, she has not only an economic crisis to navigate but Covid-19’s threat to the very idea of in-person office collaboration on which its business now depends....
...On the high-end, where the Model S and X used to rule the roost, we’ve had the Audi e-Tron and Porsche Taycan; on the affordable end, there’s the Renault Zoe, the Skoda Citigo-e and the Kia e-Niro to compete...
...These “DMarts” are the equivalent of “dark kitchens” — food preparation outlets that exist only to serve delivery apps....
...Its share price is at a record high, up 65 per cent so far this year, its best run for a decade and almost three times the gain for the benchmark S&P 500....
...A majority of companies in the S&P 500 index of leading shares have beaten analysts’ earnings forecasts so far....
...That takes Tesla's returns year-to-date to negative 40 per cent, according to S&P Capital IQ data: The S&P 500, meanwhile, is up 14-odd per cent in 2019....
...We like to think we have largely kitchen-sinked our models. Until recently, consensus estimates appeared to be massively out of date....
...Samsung's flagship store features living room settings for its impressive TVs, a kitchen for its smart appliances, a café workspace, auditorium and giant ever-changing displays....
...Along with the usual bevy of reviews, free swatches and design suggestions, it offers technological wizardry, such as augmented reality, which helps to visualise how a stool will sit at a kitchen table....
...Yanxuan adapted these with rubber, rather than polyester, soles, to allow their use in bathrooms and kitchens....
...“[It] take[s] that awkwardness and that tension out of sharing money.” Danny Gallagher, a computer game designer who rents in Berlin, started using Splitwise in 2015....
...Instead it has focused on far smaller bolt-ons such as the $200m purchase of Primal Kitchen, a purveyor of health-conscious dressings....
...Adjusted for one-time items like the integration of Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, which it agreed to buy in March, earnings of 73 cents a share, topped Wall Street expectations for 70 cents....
...At the close, the S&P 500 was flat at 2,497. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.1 per cent lower at 22,284....
...Mr Musk deserves credit for keeping the kitchen going and diners relatively satisfied. He could pull it off....
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