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Bermuda is to get a branch of the UK high street retailer French Connection in the site of the former Yankee Store on Reid Street.
The Hornburg Calypso group made the announcement yesterday that the store, known by its logo fcuk in the UK, would open...
DATE: Oct 17, 2003
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The law and insurance are famous for being tough jobs with everybody playing it hard and fast. But to Dennis Dwyer and John Weale this is nothing.
As rugby referees they have to make split second decisions and control 30 huge players to stop them mar...
DATE: Oct 17, 2003
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Despite technology advances streamlining the way the insurance industry does business, brokers are likely to remain the intermediary party in deals struck between reinsurers and their clients.
This was according to a panel of reinsurance executives w...
DATE: Oct 17, 2003
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Bermuda-based insurer XL Capital Ltd.'s stock price slumped after it said today that it would take a $160 million after-tax charge to cover growing North American reinsurance losses, causing third-quarter per-share profit to fall about 57 percent bel...
DATE: Oct 17, 2003
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A Lloyd's executive has challenged the widely-held view that the re/insurance market cycle is in a hard market.
A hard market is defined as when re/insurance is in short supply and high demand.
But last week Julian James, director of Worldwide Market...
DATE: Oct 17, 2003
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Recently imposed corporate governance regulations could be at the root of a slow down in acquisitions and mergers between businesses, according to reinsurance executives in a panel discussion last week.
The volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) ha...
DATE: Oct 17, 2003
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Residents in Bermuda will now be able to access the Internet using their mobile telephones and connect them to their laptops to be wirelessly connected anywhere where you can use a Cellular One telephone.
At the launch of what is called third generat...
DATE: Oct 17, 2003
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index yesterday fell 12.10 points to close at 2,712.90.
Activity on the exchange was minimal with only one of its listed companies - the Bank of Butterfield - seeing any activity.
The bank only saw trading of ...
DATE: Oct 16, 2003
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Bermuda-registered Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. yesterday announced that it will split its stock two for one.
The additional share will be distributed on November 4 to holders of record of the company's common stock on October 27.
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DATE: Oct 16, 2003
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A pet project for Douglas and Kendra Mello has turned into a full-blown business venture.
The couple set up the new company - Avonlea Agility - last month to offer twice a week sessions in dog agility training.
Avonlea Agility offers basic training e...
DATE: Oct 16, 2003
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