It was in 1950s Tokyo, while working as a correspondent for Time magazine, that Adrian Zecha first stayed in a traditional Japanese ryokan inn, a memory that has clearly endured. Fast-forward more than six decades and the legendary hotelier and founder of the hugely influential hotel brand Aman Resorts is returning […]
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When Charles Drury was growing up on a farm in Missouri in the 1930s and early 1940s, he helped his father and brothers do plastering and other construction work to make ends meet. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps and was assigned to administrative duties […]
GRAND CHUTE, Wis. (WFRV) — Everything seemed normal this past Tuesday morning for Grand Chute Utilities Specialist Tyler Malszycki. “[I was] doing some routine sanitary sewer cleaning,” he told Local 5. Then Malszycki saw something not so routine: “I noticed probably an eight or nine year old boy struggling over […]
CHICAGO — There were moments, early in the pandemic, when Joseph Musillami wasn’t sure how the family business would make it. Purely Meat Co., a commercial butcher in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood that supplies mostly high-end restaurants, saw sales plummet 75% when the state banned indoor dining in March. […]
Covid-19, and the destruction it dealt travel, blew up much of that. But Oyo’s issues run deeper than the pandemic. The company already faced problems from its rapid expansion, issues that won’t be fully solved by a post-vaccine travel recovery. Oyo has seen thousands of hoteliers leave its network amid […]
Its management of the pandemic has been exemplary: costs have been cut and in some months its cash has been depleted by just £5m-£10m – tiny sums by comparison with its available resources of £400m. The group should be able to break even on a cash basis with just 50pc […]
Share Tweet Share Share Share Print Email Post-pandemic, digital dollars will make their way across supply chains drastically reconfigured, and China will be out of the picture as the dominant U.S. trading partner. Maybe only a little of that will be true. The digital dollars part, at least. In an […]