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The business of nicknames

The Can of Ham cannot find a buyer. It may be hard to see the Gherkin because the Walkie-Talkie and the Cheesegrater get in the way. London’s skyline is made of glass,...

Meet the most ruthless CEO in the trillion-dollar tech club

THE BOSSES of America’s trillion-dollar technology giants represent two CEO archetypes. First, the eccentric visionary founder: Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Elon Musk of Tesla and Jensen Huang of Nvidia are obsessed with...

Can Lego remain the world’s coolest toymaker?

The Venus de Milo; “Mona Lisa”; 250 skulls on a mirrored wall; a six-metre Tyrannosaurus rex. You can see all this and more at “The Art of the Brick”, a touring exhibition...

A tie-up between Honda and Nissan will not fix their problems

Honda put nostalgia to the fore on December 18th when it announced that the Prelude, a nameplate last produced some 25 years ago, now being relaunched as a hybrid-electric, would come with...

Workers love Donald Trump. Unions should fear him

It has been a banner year for America’s unions. In November 33,000 machinists returned to their stations at Boeing having won a 38% wage increase over four years. Their victory followed a...

Why Louis Vuitton is struggling but Hermès is not

There will be fewer designer handbags or high heels under the Christmas tree this year. Spending on personal luxury goods is set to fall by 2% in 2024, according to Bain, a...

The employee awards for 2024

It’s that time of year again, when we celebrate our successes and gloss over our failures. For our 2024 employee awards we have all our classic categories, from team member of the...

Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards

SITTING ON THE board of a large American company is at once the plummest and most thankless work in business. Plum because, when everything is going right, you pocket $300,000 a year...

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