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Nearly half of the chief executives of the biggest British companies have won awards for their sporting prowess - twice as many as have any academic trophies. |
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Should charities like Barnado's, hospitals like Barts and institutions like The Royal Opera House be considered as a Golden Brand for our 50th anniversary? Andrew Nebel, commercial director of Barnado's thinks so. www.50goldenbrands.com |
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Guy Laliberte, the founder and controlling shareholder of Cirque de Soleil, named Ernst & Young's World Entrepreneur last year, has a personal jet painted to look as if it's dripping with chocolate. |
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More than 4,000 children in China have been given the name Aoyun, meaning Olympic Games, in the past 15 years. |
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54% British consumers have taken their custom to another shop or company because of poor customer service, according to new research from Future Foundation. |
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Is Google making us stupid? New research from UCL showed internet browsers not reading online in the traditional sense, but skimming and browsing through contents pages and abstracts instead. |
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94% of Japanese women in their 20s own something from Louis Vuitton. |
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Hiroyuki Sano, a 24 year old student from Nagoya, Japan, queued for 73 hours to be the first to get his hands on the new Apple iPhone's 3G. |
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There are 162 billionaires in India, 37 are women, who are mostly first generation and second generation entrepreneurs. |
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Bill Gates has not one, not two, but three computer screens at his office desk. |
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