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PE Digest: Longreach exits Primo Japan; Oriens Capital acquires IVS Group Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash January 28, 2021 Japanese private equity (PE) firm The Longreach Group has sold 100% of shares in consumer products company Primo Japan, while New Zealand PE firm Oriens Capital has acquired a 70% stake in IVS Group. Longreach Group exits Primo Japan Japanese PE firm The Longreach Group has announced that it has completely exited Primo Japan, a consumer products c...

Some 42 per cent of eligible homeowners are failing to claim any benefit at all, losing out on £830 a year on average, according to a report by Just Group,

SCORES of criminals appeared in our courts last year and were convicted of sex offences. These are some of the worst who were sent to prison in 2020 for horrific crimes in Sussex. In May The Argus reported on the case of former Brighton choirmaster Jonathan Smith who was found guilty of raping a little girl. At Hove Crown Court it was revealed Smith used blackmail and threats to keep his victim silent. It included abusing her with her own Barbie doll, and raping her, telling her they ...

One of the towers in the first phase of the eastern half of the Concord-owned property will carry the title of the region’s tallest tower. Standing at 755 ft in height with 65 storeys, the predominantly residential tower will be 96 ft taller than Living Shangri-La in downtown Vancouver, which has been the region’s tallest building since 2009. The tallest of the planned towers will carry the title of the region’s tallest tower for at least several years, until an 81-storey tower over 800 f...

but where people are getting on and off very closely trapped, running type. questions about why dont you stop at karl and cole. we looked at that. and certainly a useful suggestion we want to try it out here first from a ridership perspective and also from a congestion making it really an express bus and avoid getting bogged down in some of that. so well see -- thats the advantage of calling it a pilot and it didnt take the better part of 24 hours before i received a phone call asking ...

>> thank you, john. >> now that concludes that report. >> you do have a member of the public, david sultell. hes the only one that wants to speak on this item. >> david patell. i did meet with him yesterday to discuss this. i see some concerns about this proposal. first its this black of operates as we heard with the overtime reporter just now. we are down in terms of operators and putting this service out there if its supposed to be prioritized. will be an increase in use. the $1.8 mi...

overtime reporter just now. we are down in terms of operators and putting this service out there if its supposed to be prioritized. will be an increase in use. the $1.8 million is not in the budget. i question what sort of funds this is coming from. and if this also is a trade-off against other things that are not in the budget. the way this bus system is designed there is a limited market and its therefore limited benefit and i question what the goal is here success. and i heard the q...

and it will be a good opportunity where it gets bogged down and such a popular service, maybe we can get that run time down by maybe some changes on the street that its traveling. please dont be shy about coming to us and asking for support on transit lane changes or something of that nature. >> this is the beauty of a pilot because we want to closely monitor. normally the number of riders but where people are getting on and off very closely trapped, running type. questions about why d...

adjustments and we are minimizing the amount of switchbacks but they are necessary from time to time to keep the system evenly balanced -- capacity. >> the directors comments are well taken that this is not for folks in the sunset system. the idea is to alleviate the system so that people in coal valley can get on. >> one of the things that weve heard has been suggested to you already and a lot of it has been forwarded to you this morning. it was suggested that we look that rather than...

opportunity where it gets bogged down and such a popular service, maybe we can get that run time down by maybe some changes on the street that its traveling. please dont be shy about coming to us and asking for support on transit lane changes or something of that nature. >> this is the beauty of a pilot because we want to closely monitor. normally the number of riders but where people are getting on and off very closely trapped, running type. questions about why dont you stop at karl a...