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...dress with cutouts, £4,375, and leather sandals, £1,019 Louis Vuitton leather jacket, £4,500, and silk chiffon skirt, £3,960 Above left: Louis Vuitton cotton draped dress, £3,650, and cotton Touch of LV...
...poles, £330 Bomber Ski fibreglass and wood Keith Haring Bright Vibes all-mountain skis, £1,825, ssense.com Cordova wool-mix Telluride ski suit, £1,563, mytheresa.com Louis Vuitton wool New LV socks,...
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...Two months later, Silver Lake-owned ZPG, which owns Uswitch and property site Zoopla, acquired Confused.com from Admiral Group for £508mn....
...Le Gramme silver 7g bracelet, £195, silver and diamond 7g bracelet, £410, and silver and woven-fabric 7g bracelet, £160, selfridges.com....
...Email me at citybulletin@ft.com Briefly BHP has finalised a deal to merge its petroleum division with Woodside, taking the world’s biggest mining group out of the oil and gas industry....
...Email me at citybulletin@ft.com Briefly UK employment data showed a rise in the number of employees last month despite the end of the furlough scheme....
...Email me at citybulletin@ft.com Briefly Mutual insurer LV, which on Monday said it was in talks with rival Royal London after failing to sell itself to private equity house Bain Capital last year, has...
...Email me at citybulletin@ft.com Briefly It is all change in UK plc today....
...A planned sale of LV, one of the UK’s oldest mutually owned life insurers, to private equity group Bain provoked widespread criticism. Bain’s offer is fair....
...LV=, for example, said that “the vast majority of our existing car and home insurance customers are seeing their prices go down, which demonstrates that the new rules are working and customers are benefiting...
...Until 31 January, artcityworks.com...
...Louis Vuitton Horizon Light Up Speaker £2,320, louisvuitton.com Carry on screening Looking to up your movie-night game? This 14kg black box could be the answer....
...However, this was not enough to alert pension providers including Royal London, LV= and Now Pensions, Lloyds Bank, Which?...
...(FT) News round-up UK announces national security probe of Nvidia’s $54bn Arm deal (FT + Opinion) Life insurer LV defends proposed sale to private equity group Bain (FT + Lex) OneWeb paid almost $50m...
...And they barely seemed to notice a flood of acquisitions of companies such as security group G4S, motor recovery specialist the AA, insurers RSA and LV= and potentially now Wm Morrison, whose roots stretch...
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...Bendicks Bittermints, £4, waitrose.com 12 Most chopping boards are fairly disgusting....
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@ft.com Brexit and the City: bankers kick in their heels If DD can cast your minds back to the weeks and months after the UK voted to leave the EU...
...Add to that the black rubber strap, blacked-out plate and bridge in the LV logo on an openwork dial, and the result is bulky, chunky and fresh....
...uk.louisvuitton.com @TheFutureCritic...
...According to confused.com and Willis Towers Watson, they went up 6 per cent in the 12 months to the end of March....
...This more strikingly includes Gucci down 23% vs LV down 10-13%....
...Get in touch: Due.Diligence@FT.com Private equity thinks its fees are perfectly justified Nobody likes to be told they’re overpaid and that their work’s not that impressive....
...leo.lewis@ft.com...
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