A few Friday's back, I showed off a blunder London's Office of Government Commerce stumbled into when designing a new logo. Choosing to go with a just the letters of their office, OGC, the logo became an Internet meme of sorts when it was pointed out that OGC tilted 90...
The 6.8km long Storebaelt East Bridge spans between the Sprogo and Zealand islands in Denmark and includes a 2.7km long major suspension bridge with a 1624m main span and 2 side spans of 550m. DE MIRANDA Associati DMA, based in Milan, Italy, used LUSAS Bridge analysis software to provide advice...
MILAN (Reuters UK) - Bank Santander SAN has over 2 percent of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena BMPS, the Italian mid-sized lender which bought Antonveneta bank from the Spanish giant, Il Messaggero newspaper reported on Sunday. "The Spanish bank should make it official within a...
MILAN (Reuters UK) - Bank Santander SAN has over 2 percent of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena BMPS, the Italian mid-sized lender which bought Antonveneta bank from the Spanish giant, Il Messaggero newspaper reported on Sunday. "The Spanish bank should make it official within a...
MILAN (Reuters) - Bank Santander SAN has over 2 percent of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena BMPS, the Italian mid-sized lender which bought Antonveneta bank from the Spanish giant, Il Messaggero newspaper reported on Sunday. "The Spanish bank should make it official...
We see them on the streets of Paris and Milan -- even in the hands of Middle America suburbanites. The luxury goods industry is a $220 billion business, and in the extreme high end of the market there are limited edition high-brow makes. There's the $200,000 bottle of Hennessey...
MILAN (Reuters UK) - Italian broadband operator Tiscali TIS said on Monday it was still studying offers from parties interested in its assets, missing a June 30 deadline it had set for itself for finding a buyer. "Several hypotheses are still being analysed," it said in...
MILAN (Reuters) - The worst of the financial crisis is over and markets should start settling from the second half of this year, the head of France's biggest listed bank, BNP Paribas, told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper. "The worst should be over and...
MILAN (Reuters UK) - The worst of the financial crisis is over and markets should start settling from the second half of this year, the head of France's biggest listed bank, BNP Paribas, told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper. "The worst should be over and I think...
Women's Wear Daily reports this morning that fashion brand Valentino -- whose global sales rose nearly 10 percent last year -- aims to double revenues to more than $381 million as it remakes the brand to appeal to younger, less affluent shoppers. Building on its reputation as...
MILAN (Reuters UK) - Alitalia AZPIa will receive a capital injection of 700 million to 800 million euros from Italian businessmen as part of a plan to save the ailing carrier, newspaper Corriere della Sera reported on Sunday. The paper, without citing sources, said some 10...
MILAN (Reuters) - Alitalia AZPIa will receive a capital injection of 700 million to 800 million euros from Italian businessmen as part of a plan to save the ailing carrier, newspaper Corriere della Sera reported on Sunday. The paper, without citing sources, said...
By Giancarlo Navach BALOCCO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian car maker Fiat FIA will work with Germany's BMW BMWG to develop a new platform for small cars, industry magazine Automotive News Europe reported on Tuesday, citing supplier sources. Fiat and BMW are also considering...
MILAN (Reuters UK) - Alitalia AZPIa will receive a capital injection of 700 million (554 million pounds) to 800 million euros from Italian businessmen as part of a plan to save the ailing carrier, newspaper Corriere della Sera reported on Sunday. The paper, without citing...
It's now a truism that the drug industry's "blockbuster model" has pretty much had its day. Much of Big Pharma is having a terrible time winning approval for new drugs and even keeping up sales of existing blockbusters, in part because their underlying rationale -- that pushing drugs into mass...
Mary’s training a puppy. She’s taking the job very seriously and doing it well. Both of us think that we should have taken as disciplined an approach to managing people in our entrepreneurial days.The toughest thing for an entrepreneur to learn is that most people want to be led....
By Jo Winterbottom MILAN (Reuters) - Europe's fourth-largest bank UniCredit CRDI laid out bold plans for growth in central and eastern Europe CEE on Thursday, where it is already the biggest lender, while cutting back on jobs in western Europe. In a two-tier...
By Daisy Ku LONDON (Reuters UK) - First-quarter revenues at the London Stock Exchange Group LSE rose 8 percent thanks to buoyant information and settlement services, the group said on Wednesday, sending its shares up 9 percent. But revenue from issuance and trading remained roughly flat...
By Daisy Ku LONDON (Reuters UK) - First-quarter revenues at the London Stock Exchange Group LSE rose 8 percent thanks to buoyant information and settlement services, the group said on Wednesday, sending its shares up 12 percent. But revenue from issuance and trading stayed roughly flat...
By Mathias Wildt PROSECCO, Italy (Reuters UK) - Gianluca Bisol has great expectations for the white sparkling wine his family has been making since 1542 in the Valdobbiadene and Conegliano regions north of Venice. A 22nd-generation prosecco producer, he is hoping prosecco's growing international renown...