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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Viewers caught a glimpse behind the front door of one of the UK s most lavish homes when Stoke-on-Trent billionaire John Caudwell revealed the results of a lavish renovation at his Mayfair home.
Headquartered: Dolphin Quays, Poole
Founded: 1995, by Liz Weir (later Bennett), Mark Constantine, Mo Constantine, Rowena Bird, Helen Ambrosen, Paul Greeves. Poole’s globally famous maker of cosmetics and smellies was born from the ashes of another company, the mail order supplier Cosmetics To Go. Its founders had previously worked together in Constantine & Weir, which had supplied many products to the Body Shop. The business has a devoted following for its cruelty-free and environmental credentials, its savvy with digital marketing, the distinctive smell and style of its shops, and its willingness to take a stance on issues such as Brexit, fracking and fox hunting.
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Fat Cat Friday occurs on the last working day of the first week of the year when the highest rollers will have leapfrogged your average Joeâs annual salary by working a matter of days. Fat Cat Friday (FCF) is completely redundant with Sir Chris Hohn such is the size of his pay packet, at a record £343 million. FCF would be applicable
minutes into the inaugural working day of the year (rather than days in). The low-key billionaire hedge fund manager â and former boss of Chancellor Rishi Sunak â has scored a bumper year for his The Childrenâs Investment hedge fund (TCI).
The Monday Briefing: John Lewis, Thomas Pink, Armani
Everything you need to know from the weekend s news.
John Lewis: The John Lewis Partnership is planning to open hundreds of “mini John Lewis stores in its Waitrose supermarkets. Since 2019, the concept was trialled in Lymington in Hampshire and Lincoln in the East Midlands Waitrose branches. The retailer is now testing several versions of the concept at three additional Waitrose shops: Wallingford in Oxford and Godalming and Horley in Surrey. Partnership chairman Sharon White plans for John Lewis products to be sold in 280 Waitrose stores that currently sells general merchandise.
Thomas Pink: Former JD Sports trading director Nick Preston, who has also previously worked at Harvey Nichols as menswear buying controller and House of Fraser as a buying manager, has reportedly acquired Thomas Pink from luxury conglomerate LVMH. The deal is understood to include the intellectual property of the brand but not its website or shops,
The former footballer, 47, and the Swedish native, 37, were seen locking lips in the front of her car, before getting out for a stroll in the west London location.