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Bubbling optimism for the future of the retail sector is typified by the opening of Highlander, a cashmere and tartan outlet recently-opened by Dicky King in the Butterfield Place mall on Front Street.
Having first seen the retail business up close d...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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David Fox, Business Editor
second quarter earnings as a result of a change in its underwriting strategy and improved investment returns.
EXEL earned net income of $211.6 million for the second quarter of 1997 ended May 31, a gain of 138 percent over the $89 million earned in t...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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financial officer. He replaces Neil Speight who is now financial controller at Millennium International Ltd., formerly BSL Holdings Ltd.
Mr. Bedard was previously president of a Florida consulting company specialising in finance, sales, marketing, an...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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that they have signed an agreement to merge.
Royal Caribbean International (RCCL) will buy Celebrity Cruise Lines Inc. for $1.3 billion -- as long as certain conditions are met -- making it the largest merger in cruise industry history.
The agreement...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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This is the age of convergence of technologies and services in the telecommunications industry, with previously disparate businesses vying for a chunk of each other's turf.
Telephone companies are no longer just concentrating on telephone services bu...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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Ahmed Elamin
The first step towards opening up Bermuda's airport to duty-free sales has been taken.
For a new bill to legalise sales of liquor, tobacco and other goods on-site and allow for warehouse storage at the airport has been brought before the House of Ass...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Mid Ocean Ltd.
Mid Ocean will open with strike prices of 50, 55 and 60, with position limits of 4,500 contracts. Initial expiration months will be July, August and November, 1997 and February, 1998.
Through its subsidiary, Mid Ocean Re, Mid Ocean off...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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cent per litre yesterday to 117.7 cents a litre, as the world oil price remained depressed, which is reflected in crude oil prices and subsequently at the gasoline pumps.
The price of diesel fuel remained the same at 90.3 cents per litre, while keros...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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large-scale, onshore energy property risks, by making a key appointment of a global insurance market veteran in Bermuda.
John D. Holthusen is to be based here at Global Energy's underwriting office in the newly-created position of senior vice preside...
DATE: Jun 18, 1997
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After two attempts Ralph O. Marshall has finally managed to retire as head of his architectural and engineering firm Marshall Bernardo Partnership.
Not that it took much convincing from the other partners at the firm when the petitioned him to stay o...
DATE: Jun 17, 1997
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