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early light international centre, no. 9 ka fu close, sheung shui, hong kong
former director of coates group holdings pty ltd (from january 2008 to july 2013) .
5 / f early light intl center, no. 9 ka fu close, hong kong
1962 - aviation furnishings international ltd was founded in dorking, uk by mr macintosh .
he recently bought into hong kong - listed town health international holdings, becoming its vice chairman .
early light international (holdings) ltd group has secured 100 percent interest in the iconic australian exchange centre, in the heart of sydney’s financial core for $ 335 million on a fully leased 4. 5 percent yield from an offshore institutional investor, managed by investa .
further expansion in china, early light had grown to become one of the largest toys manufactures in the world. the total factory area of early light in china reached 20 million square feet with over 70, 000 employees during peak production periods .
beginning in 1972, the history of early light international (holdings) ltd. spans nearly four decades of sustained growth. from our core manufacturing business, we have evolved a strategically diverse portfolio that also includes property, jewelry and the automotive industry. these are some of the milestones we have achieved since our founding .
hong kong - mattel’s latest recall has jolted the business empire of hong kong toy tycoon francis choi chee ming. the billionaire’s early light
international art center is not the family’s only corporate entity with mossack fonseca. giuseppe nahmad also created swinton international ltd, which was registered in the british virgin islands in august 1992 .
early light industrial co was established in hong kong as a manufacturer of toys. our first factory was located in the kwun tong industrial area .
2013 - in october 2013, maccarthy aviation holdings announced that the business and assets had been purchased by berwick industries ltd, part of the berwick group .
goodyear sells nearly all of its food and industrial films business to huntsman holdings corporation .
goodyear and pacific dunlop ltd. form south pacific tyres ltd. , with manufacturing and retailing operations in australia, new zealand, and new guinea .
1964. the russell and abney report on the action of light on water colours .
choi claims his employees became suspicious early last summer when they realized that a subcontractor had failed repeatedly to pick up the approved paint that it was required to buy from early light. mattel says it tested early light' s sarge die - cast toy cars as part of an annual protocol and found traces of lead, also confirmed by early light' s own tests. mattel then recalled 436, 000 tainted sarge cars. the problem was worse at the rival factory that was shut down; it had made 1. 5 million fisher - price character toys recalled by mattel .
born in guangdong province, which borders hong kong, choi owes much of his rise in business to mattel. his early days as a sale agent and manufacturer of snoopy products allowed him to set up early light international holdings in 1994, the core of his toy empire. in recent years, he made bundles of cash by branching out into hong kongs resurgent real estate sector and making bets on pharmaceutical and health products .
gadsden, alabama plant begins an expansion to keep up with demand for light truck tires .
goodyear ultra grip ice wrt winter tire for suvs and light trucks introduced in north america .
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mattel said his company early light subcontracted the painting of parts of the cars toys to another china - based vendor, hong li da. the use of paint containing lead resulted from hong li das decision to source paint from a non - authorized third - party supplier, in violation of mattels requirement for it to use paint supplied directly by early light .
according to ben azar, director of capital transactions and cross border investments at savills, “this asset generated immediate interest from our high net worth network of offshore investors from china, hong kong, singapore and japan, due to its long wale, strong tenant covenant and 100 percent freehold interest”. dr francis choi chee - ming, is the founder and chairman of the early light international (holdings) ltd group, which has a solid presence in hong kong and mainland china, servicing international and local needs .
the recall of the sarge toy results from mattel’s increased investigation and ongoing testing procedures following the 2 august recall of select fisher - price toys. the toy was produced by early light industrial co. , ltd (early light), one of mattel’s contract manufacturing facilities in china, which subcontracted the painting of parts of the toy to another vendor, hong li da plastic cement products facility (hld), also in china. while the painting subcontractor, hld, was required to utilise paint supplied directly from early light, it instead violated mattel’s standards and utilised paint from a non - authorised third - party supplier .
a joint venture is announced with india' s ceat ltd. to build tires .
former director of gresham partners holdings limited and gresham partners group limited (from 2009 to 2017) .
early the next year, at a sotheby’s auction in london, a company called tricornio holdings sold a painting by pierre bonnard called “dans le cabinet de toilette. ” another company, heredia holdings, signed an agreement with sotheby’s to sell a painting by marc chagall, “”les comédiens. ” a third company, talara holdings, put up for auction a chagall painting called “le violoniste bleu. ”
oct 2010 d. light named 100th object in “a history of the world in 100 objects” .
the mossack fonseca records indicate the nahmads were early adopters of the benefits of offshoring art .
national flag carrier iceland air has awarded mac interiors (formerly maccarthy aviation holdings ltd) a significant contract to provide lavatory upgrade kits for two b737 - 800 and one b737 - 700 aircraft .
goodyear wins tire manufacturing innovation of the year award from tire technology international magazine .
cimic group limited (formerly leighton holdings limited) was founded in 1949, listed on the ...
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application for approval of the westmont aged care services ltd, anmf and hsu enterprise agreement 2018 .
the nahmads are not the only prominent art collecting clan that has found their offshore holdings embroiled in legal actions .
debica launches passio passenger car tire for sale in poland and other international export markets .
former director of qwest communications international inc (from september 2005 to april 2011) .
the above method can be adopted anywhere, indoors or out, when the light is poor .
the paintings all arrived by summer 1941. photo by kind permission of brb (residuary) ltd .
the market for the highly popular aquatred tire expands with introduction of the wrangler aquatred for light trucks and suvs .
q8: seeking international growth often has both high moments and dark (low) moments. briefly describe one high moment and one dark (low) moment in seeking international growth .
under the jct standard terms, once the first default notice has been served, the architect / ca has no right to serve a further default notice if the default is repeated, but it is entitled to terminate the contract: robin ellis ltd v vinexsa international ltd [ 2003 ] blr 372 .
new type of blimp built for u. s. navy for use in aircraft early - warning system .
arizona holdings, including goodyear farms, litchfield park, and westinghouse - goodyear properties, are sold to suncor development corporation .
licence creative commons attribution - pas d' utilisation commerciale - pas de modification 4. 0 international
application for approval of the 3m australia pty ltd - distrubution centre & national union of workers collective agreement 2017 .
francis choi, chief executive officer of early light international holdings limited, albert yeung, chairman of emperor group, stanley ho, managing director of sociedade de jogos de macau, and hong kong action film star jackie chan push button during the lighting ceremony for the hotel animacao imperial and companhia de telecomunicacoes de macau (ctm) at the tower and convention center in macau, 25 august 2005. the hotel animacao imperial will be inaugurated at the end of the year .
cimic group limited (asx: cim) is one of the world’s leading international contractors ...
the billionaires early light industrial co. was named tuesday by mattel as the supplier of nearly half a million die - cast vehicles found to contain impermissible levels of lead,  which can lead to brain damage and other health risks for children .
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atul gupta – the middle brother business position: managing director, sahara holdings, non - executive director, comair, executive chairperson, tna media. stakes: sahara holdings: 16% , oakbay investments: 30% , islandsite investment: 25% oakbay investments: 40 %
in the absence of such a clause, the position seems unclear. it has been held that a party may, prima facie, rely both on its contractual and common law rights, without thereby affirming the contract. see: stocznia gdynia sa v gearbulk holdings ltd [ 2009 ] ewca civ 75, dalkia utilities services plc v celtech international ltd [ 2006 ] 1 lloyd‘s rep. 599, shell egypt west manzala gmbh v dana gas egypt ltd [ 2010 ] ewhc 465 (comm). however, each of these cases is fact specific and careful consideration should be given to the principles applied in each of these authorities .
air treads forms a joint venture with mitsui & company ltd. of japan to serve the expanding aviation tire business in asia .
the address is gratispool co ltd, william street, glasgow c3. the slogan is now
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3. basrah petroleum co. , ltd. , 75 - year concession covering the province of basrah, granted in 1938 .
mr. lo yuk sui is executive chairman of the board, chief executive officer, managing director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. mr. lo has been the managing director and the chairman of the predecessor listed company of the group since 1984 and 1987 respectively. mr. lo was designated as the chief executive officer of the company in 2007. he is also an executive director, the chairman and the chief executive officer of century city international holdings limited (“ccihl”) (the ultimate listed holding company of the company), paliburg holdings limited (“phl”) (the immediate listed holding company of the company) and cosmopolitan international holdings limited (“cosmopolitan”) (the listed fellow subsidiary of the company), and a non - executive director and the chairman of regal portfolio management limited (”rpml”), the manager of regal real estate investment trust (the listed subsidiary of the company). mr. lo is a qualified architect. in his capacity as the chief executive officer, mr. lo oversees the overall policy and decision making of the group .
mr. wong chi keung is independent non - executive director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. mr. wong is also an independent non - executive director of ccihl and phl. he holds a master’s degree in business administration from the university of adelaide in australia. he is a fellow member of hong kong institute of certified public accountants, the association of chartered certified accountants and cpa australia and an associate member of the institute of chartered secretaries and administrators and the chartered institute of management accountants. mr. wong is also a responsible officer for asset management, advising on securities and advising on corporate finance for greater china capital limited under the sfo. mr. wong was an executive director, the deputy general manager, group financial controller and company secretary of guangzhou investment company limited (now known as “yuexiu property company limited”), a company listed on the stock exchange, for over ten years. he is also an independent non - executive director and a member of the audit committee of asia orient holdings limited, asia standard international group limited, china nickel resources holdings company limited, china ting group holdings limited, enm holdings limited, golden eagle retail group limited, tpv technology limited, yuan heng gas holdings limited and zhuguang holdings group company limited, all of which are companies listed on the stock exchange. mr. wong has over 31 years of experience in finance, accounting and management .
where the contract requires service of a default notice prior to a termination notice, there must be a “sensible connection” between the two notices both in content and time: architectural installation services ltd v james gibbons windows ltd 46 b. l. r. 91 .
one of the transactions provides a clue to the identity of marie voridis. on october 22, 2004, voridis transferred all rights to an oil painting by pierre - auguste renoir known in english as “the seamstress” to talara holdings. a few weeks later, talara holdings transferred the painting back to voridis .
in less than two years after entering international racing competition, goodyear wins the 24 hours of le mans, france .
acquired halewinner ltd. and fastwheel motors, strengthening the group' s strategically diverse portfolio. all plants awarded iso9001: 2008 certification .
orix' s initial expansion occurred during the period of sustained economic growth in japan during the 1960s and lasted through to the early 1970s .
our vast product range covers all aircraft interiors, and is diversified from original aircraft production offerings to the light weight replacement components and easy maintenance alternatives .
any action taken to determine the nature or properties of materials used in any kinds of cultural holdings or in their housing, handling or treatment, any action taken to understand and control the causes of deterioration and any action taken to better the condition of such holdings. [ author’s emphasis ] (bewer 2010, 250 )
early light is one of the world' s leading original equipment manufacturers (oem) and original design manufacturers (odm) of toys and consumer products, serving a variety of prominent global clients since 1972. the company' s advanced manufacturing facilities in shenzhen and shaoguan cover approximately 25 million square feet, with a peak capacity of over 450 assembly lines and 70, 000 skilled workers. early light is further vertically integrated to incorporate manufacturing - related services such as prototyping models and tool making. in tandem with its r & d department, the company strives to innovate new products backed by iso9001: 2008 certification and in compliance with the care process of the international council of toy industries (icti) .
in 1957 the gratispool' ultra rapid' film was credited with a speed of 100asa in daylight and 25asa in tungsten light. this implies the film was more sensitive to blue than to red light i. e. orthochromatic (not equally sensitive to all visible wavelengths i. e. not panchromatic) .
goodyear wins the tire technology of the year award from the publishers of tire technology international for the goodyear ultragrip ice + tire .
32. concessions held by the general asphalt co. date from as early as 1910. control of these concessions passed to a subsidiary of royal dutch - shell, burlington investment co. , ltd. . in the income of which general asphalt. owned a 24. 8 percent interest. burlington controlled the caribbean petroleum co. (100 percent), colon developrnent co. , ltd. (75 percent). and venezuelan oil concessions, ltd. (extent of control not stated). shell' s venezuelan interests have since been held by these companies and their successors. a minority interest (25 percent) in the colon development co. , ltd. , was held during the 1920' s by an american company, carib syndicate. ltd. , and an attiliate. general asphalt' s interest in shell' s properties was reduced to a royalty basis in 1923 .
ms. kan lai kuen, cpa, is independent non - executive director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. she is also an independent non - executive director of cosmopolitan. ms. kan is a shareholder and the managing director of asia investment management limited providing corporate advisory and investment management services and asia investment research limited involving in research work in hong kong and china based companies. she is a licensed investment adviser under the securities and futures ordinance of hong kong (the “sfo”) and a responsible officer of asia investment management limited, asia investment research limited and lotus asset management limited. she will cease to be a responsible officer of lotus asset management limited with effect from 1st april, 2015. she has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and is well experienced in both the equity and debt markets. she held various senior positions in international and local banks and financial institutions. ms. kan is a fellow member of the association of chartered certified accountants, a fellow member of the cpa australia and an associate member of the hong kong institute of certified public accountants. she is a fellow member of the hong kong institute of directors. ms. kan is also an independent non - executive director of china energine international (holdings) limited, shimao property holdings limited and shougang concord international enterprises company limited, all of which are companies listed on the stock exchange, and an independent director of avic international maritime holdings limited, a company listed on singapore exchange securities trading limited .
as for new business, orix launched the concession * 2 business in 2015, obtaining the rights to operate kansai international airport and osaka international airport jointly with the french airport operator vinci airports, establishing kansai airports, and taking part in the operation of both airports .
it is believed gratispool purchased their light sensitised' fast' bromide paper negative' film' material from criterion, a company based at the arclight works of e. n. mason & sons, ltd, colchester (formed in 1905). at some later date, post - world war ii, it is understood to have come from kodak. later still, around the mid - 1960s, gratispool black & white film became a conventional celluloid type, printable by transmitted light .
mr. ng kwai kai is executive director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. he joined the group in 1985 and appointed to the board in 1998. mr. ng is a chartered secretary and is in charge of the corporate finance, company secretarial and administrative functions of the century city group. he is also an executive director and the chief operating officer of ccihl, an executive director of phl and cosmopolitan, and a non - executive director of rpml .
ii. anglo - iranian oil co. , ltd. (originally anglo - persian oil co. , ltd .), original concession to william d' arcy in 1901 revised to a 60 - year concession in 1933 covering 100, 000 square miles in iran. the company is owned by - -
iii. kuwait oil co. ltd. , 75 - year concession granted in 1934, covering all of sheikhdom of kuwait. company is owned by - -
new speedwalk / speedramp installations completed at cleveland hopkins international airport; standiford field in louisville, kentucky, and meriden square in meriden, connecticut .
if the nahmads had signed the documents as the owners of international art center, they would have likely lost the legal protection the company provided .
in 1951, gratispool ltd were operating out of 207 william street, glasgow, c. 3 (pre - dates the st margaret' s place address) .
simsbury international appears to have been created solely for the ganz transaction. it was incorporated in april 1997. a month later it purchased the collection .
giuseppe nahmad registered international art center sa in 1995 through the swiss bank ubs and the geneva office of mossack fonseca. it may have existed in another form prior to that date. a document in the mossack fonseca files mentions international art center acquiring the pastel “danseuses” by edgar degas in october 1989 .
the pictures alongside are believed to show the clydeholm premises. the version far left was taken in 1998, and sent to me by john waco of bbc sound & light, scotland .
mr. wan tze wai is executive director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. , since march 1, 2010. mr. wan has been with the century city group for over 20 years and is the group financial controller of the century city group. mr. wan holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the university of new south wales in australia. he is a member of hong kong institute of certified public accountants and cpa australia. mr. wan has over 30 years of experience in finance and accounting field .
in 1981, the gratispool company was sold to 3m' s photographic division, the date presumably reflecting the year of geoffrey & edrei stead' s 50th wedding anniversary. 3m continued to use the company name gratispool international holdings ltd, but only kept the organisation until the end of october 1986 before selling off the various parts of the business. 3m attempted to operate the finglas laboratory (dublin) for a while but eventually shut it down. mail - orders were then transferred to the glasgow laboratory at clydeholm road .
the bulk sensitised paper was made up into roll film' spools', by hand. although the' spools' could be developed by most anyone using normal film developer etc. the resulting' paper' negatives had to be printed by gratispool' s own purpose designed reflected light enlargers (richard stead recalls that his father' s reflected light enlargers used 1000watt bulbs) .
professor japhet sebastian law is independent non - executive director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. , effective june 18, 2012. professor law obtained his ph. d. in mechanical / industrial engineering from the university of texas at austin in 1976. he joined the chinese university of hong kong in 1986 and was a professor in the department of decision sciences and managerial economics and the director of the aviation policy and research center until his retirement since august 2012. he was also the associate dean and subsequently the dean of the faculty of business administration of the chinese university of hong kong from 1993 to 2002. prior to returning to hong kong, professor law was the director of operations research at the cullen college of engineering and director of graduate studies in industrial engineering at the university of houston, and he was also involved with the united states space program in his career with mcdonnell douglas and ford aerospace in the united states. professor law has acted as a consultant for various corporations in hong kong and overseas. . professor law is currently an independent non - executive director of beijing capital international airport company limited, binhai investment company limited, global digital creations holdings limited, shanghai la chapelle fashion co. , ltd. , shougang fushan resources group limited, tianjin binhai teda logistics (group) corporation limited and tianjin port development holdings limited, all of which are companies listed on the stock exchange. professor law has also served on various committees and boards of international organisations, including the association to advance collegiate schools of business, graduate management admission council and oxfam international .
largest installation to date of memory belt completed at the u. s. postal department' s new air mail facility at san francisco' s international airport .
dating from 1977 through 2015, the files include the biggest known cache of inside information on the connections between the international trade in art and offshore secrecy jurisdictions .
geoff has been an active member of the international bar association (international litigation) and is currently the australian chair of that committee. geoff has also been a member of the new south wales law society professional conduct review tribunal and undertaken work for a range of charitable and not - for - profit organisations over many years .
tozun: “in the early days, to preserve capital, we chose not to hire senior, local management – we did everything ourselves, and travelled almost non - stop to develop new markets. we achieved early success, but it was only after we recruited experienced, local management who were continuously engaged with local partners in our markets that we could begin to scale rapidly. ”
washington - - the u. s. consumer product safety commission has issued a voluntary recall for off - road motorcycles manufactured by ktm and action figure sets from toy century industrial ltd .
icom - cc [ international council of museums – conservation committee ]. 2008. icom - cc resolution on terminology – english. paris: icom - cc. urltoken
possibly gratispool found it difficult to print dense paper negatives by reflected light and so the warning may have been as much to help gratispool' s printers as it was to help the users of the film .
by the latter 1930s, it is believed at least three companies were in existence, being geoffery' s modern studios ltd, the pc developing and printing company and also the fledgling gratispool .
the offshore entities are interconnected, their use a family affair. giuseppe nahmad had power of attorney over international art center’s ubs bank account as early as 1995. david and ezra could also sign for the company’s bank account at ubs. for a company bank account with citibank two years later, giuseppe co - signed with his brother ezra nahmad, the documents show .
in the early 1800s, the united states witnessed the birth of the railroad industry and along with it, dramatic changes in american society and business. what was life like before and after the railroads ?
around the early twenties, however, an entirely new set of factors led the standard oil companies to reverse their traditional policy of disinterestedness in foreign reserves. these new factors may be summarized as follows :
in respect of the content of the notice, it is advisable to refer specifically to the clauses of the contract as well as their content when drafting notices, as although a purposive interpretation will be given to notices, a reasonable recipient of the notice must be left in no doubt as to its meaning (see reinwood ltd v l brown & sons ltd [ 2008 ] ukhl 12) .
it is not by chance that the protagonists of this early history of preventive conservation ended up working on this common project and vision for the profession. they all recognized that interdisciplinary collaboration was paramount to ensuring the long - term conservation of museum collections and cultural heritage at large. although the integration of the work of curators with that of scientists had been slow and at times uneasy throughout the 19th and early 20
goodyear introduces the 300 series unisteel commercial truck tire system, several new light truck tires, a broad market touring tire, automotive and industrial hose products with environmental benefits, and quieter, more efficient v - belts .
mr. fan tung is executive director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. he was appointed to the board in 2002. mr. fan is a qualified architect. he has been with the group since 1987 and is primarily in charge of the property investment and development businesses and the hotel project works of the group. mr. fan is also an executive director of ccihl, an executive director and the chief operating officer of phl and a non - executive director of rpml. mr. fan is involved in the property development, architectural design and project management functions as well as overseeing the building construction business of the phl group .
post - 1975, ron houslip, while on the gratispool board in his capacity as sales director of the merged company ~ gratispool international holdings ~ pushed for the creation of what became a successful chain of small shops called' supasnaps'. these outlets were rapidly set up; the aim was 12 stores a month. the first shop opened in wokingham in 1978 and by the end of 1984 there were 350 shops nationwide .
the sale came with a side - deal. if the auction for the works brought a higher price, the owner of simsbury international and spink & son would share in the difference .
because of these national and colonial policies, therefore, attempts by american companies to obtain crude oil concessions in asia had been largely unsuccessful, and, in 1920, the holdings of these companies were negligible in both europe and asia. in the foreign countries of the western hemisphere, however, similar political and private barriers did not exist, and in the early 1920' s american companies became actively interested in oil concessions in venezuela, colombia, and peru .
gerry connolly (aka mr coronet) tells me it is a rebranded coronet conway' popular', actually made by standard cameras ltd. , birmingham ,
who were part of coronet' s empire
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orix corporation was established on april 17, 1964 in osaka, japan as orient leasing co. , ltd. by three trading companies and five banks that included nichimen, nissho and iwai (presently sojitz corporation), the sanwa bank (presently mufg bank, ltd .), toyo trust & banking (presently mitsubishi ufj trust and bank corporation), the industrial bank of japan and nippon kangyo bank (presently mizuho bank, ltd .), and the bank of kobe (presently sumitomo mitsui banking corporation). the company' s name was changed to orix corporation in 1989. orix began operations with a 13 - member staff, including current senior chairman yoshihiko miyauchi, who at the time had just recently learned the leasing business through a cooperative arrangement with u. s. leasing international inc. in the united states .
tozun: “an entirely new group of ‘social impact investors’ emerged in response to our focus on deploying for - profit, private sector approaches to solve poverty and economic development problems in the developing world. the early leaders in impact investing – gray ghost ventures, the acumen fund and the omidyar network – were among d. light’s early investors. established venture capital firms like nexus and draper fisher jurvetson were attracted to these innovative models. catalytic philanthropic and grant capital was deployed in certain high - risk or long time frame areas of market formation. the emergence of a ‘new generation’ of young professionals who want to express their values through their work has created a dynamic pool of educated, talented professionals. d. light is packed with skilled, passionate people attracted by the chance to work with a high calibre team of committed professionals making a transformative difference in our customers’ lives – and to create an entirely new market. ”
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in 1988, orix acquired the hankyu braves, one of 12 professional baseball teams in japan, now called the orix buffaloes, which helps to raise name recognition and promote orix' s corporate image. in 1989, orix introduced a corporate identity program and changed its name to orix corporation from orient leasing co. , ltd. to reflect its increasingly international profile and diversification into financial services other than leasing .
a typical subcontractor for choi operates on a big scale. it might employ 1, 000 workers and own 30 massive injection - molding machines. at the height in 2006 early light subcontractors were responsible for as much as 40% of its production capacity. that share fell to 25% last year after choi' s second factory opened. the goal is to lower that share to 10% this year before eliminating the subcontractors and putting all production under one roof .
also in attendance was essop pahad, former minister in the presidency under thabo mbeki, who serves on the board of sahara holdings. pahad once held a seat on the board of tna media. his magazine, the thinker, received funding from the guptas .
gratispool was arguably the first, and certainly the most famous, of the uk photographic film processing companies that dealt directly with the public via mail order. in various guises they operated from the early 1930s through to the early 1980s, whereafter the company was sold to a succession of new owners over the next 20years, during which time the gratispool brand name disappeared. increasing competition from high street colour printing facilities, and ultimately the digital era, lead to the demise of what had once been a substantial international organisation. i must thank farquhar mckenzie, a former gratispool emloyee, for providing much of the information on the post - 1981 dissolution of the previous gratispool' empire'. the early history of gratispool, through to the 1970s, has come to me from martin and richard stead, and michael adler and suzanne lipschitz (née adler), all being offspring of gratispool' s originators .
in 1995, swinton international authorized david nahmad to negotiate the sale of five paintings it owned - an oil on panel by picasso, “danseuses” by degas, two oils on canvas by henri matisse and an oil on canvas by raoul dufy. some of the paintings subsequently went on auction at sotheby’s identified as being from a “private collection. ” two of the paintings had been the property of international art center .
the system consisted of a single 25 - meter pipe mounted 5 meters from the floor, fitted with fish - tail gas jets on either side. the jets were ignited by a pilot light that travelled on a track below (fig. 3) .
( 1956). building on scott’s approach, plenderleith developed new preventive conservation guidance in relation to storage conditions, temperature, relative humidity, light, dust, biological attacks, damage caused by the public and on the importance of on - going collections maintenance .
but secret records obtained by the international consortium of investigative journalists, the german newspaper süddeutsche zeitung and other media partners suggests the statement is a legal sleight of hand designed to obscure the true owners of the painting .
as the case progressed, emails flew back and forth between glanc and mossack fonseca, the leaked documents show. every time a motion came from international art center, the stand - in directors had to sign .
coronet made a box camera named' conway' between the 1930s and 1955 but with several face - lifts that changed its appearance. i believe this one is the final appearance, so the gratispool camera might date from the early to mid 1950s .
the images in the row above and to the right are by courtesy of tony pritchard. the are front & rear (and side) views taken from early gratispool 8mm cine film boxes, as used to return the film for processing after exposure .
the nahmads have insisted in federal and state court in new york that the family does not possess the modigliani. an offshore company called international art center, registered by a little - known panamanian law firm, does .
tozun: “early support from angel investors enabled us to win a prestigious us $ 250, 000 draper fisher jurvetson business plan competition, which launched the company and catalyzed series a funding with an ideal mix of venture capital and ‘patient capital’ impact investors. ”
diane joined bhp in 2015 and was appointed chief technology officer in february, 2016. prior to joining the company, diane was based in china for nearly 10 years, serving as board member and managing director of shanghai onstar telematics company in addition to prior roles as chief information officer and strategy board member for general motors’ international and china operations. diane’s early career was with the boeing company where she worked for 12 years in engineering, information technology and business development leadership roles .
william mckinley was popular, successful, re - elected and assassinated. he shaped money' s influence in politics, and transformed the united states into an international power. why isn' t the 25th president better known ?
at least as early as 1902, colonial oil co. of new jersey, which prior to the dissolution was a subsidiary of the old standard oil co. (new jersey), applied to the government of burma for a license to prospect for oil. this application was refused. in the same year anglo - american oil co. , ltd. , a british subsidiary of standard oil co. of new jersey, was likewise refused a license to prospect for oil in india with the explanation that - -
some items of ffs literature (left and above) found on this web page. notice that on the yellow ffs' guide to better pictures', another name, speedisnaps ltd is mentioned - maybe a forerunner to supasnaps? (see below) .
in the early years of the new millennium, several of orix' s bi - lateral expansions came to fruition. domestic and overseas expansion, expansion of corporate and retails businesses, and the expansion of asset and fee businesses have resulted in a solid revenue base .
tozun: “the lowest points have been hiring decisions that for one reason or another didn’t work out; unfortunately many of our early hires are not with us today. on the other hand, seeing our products dramatically improving millions of customers’ lives is incredibly satisfying. ”
david muir, who sent me this image, tells me the couple were married in south africa in early 1944 but the lady is as known to have never been to glasgow. hence, the writing on the mount of this print is something of a mystery .
this is the first australian property purchased by the group known as hong kong’s leading toy manufacturer, which also specialises in property management, medical and health services, hotel service, watch and jewellery retail and international pre - schools .
probably dating from around 1957 is this undated letter which was sent accompanying first free films sent on request to would be users of the gratispool service. directors of the gratispool co. ltd. are named as g. w. stead and e. stead .
mr. lo chun to is executive director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. , since 1999. he is appointed to the board in 1999. mr. jimmy lo is also an executive director and a vice chairman of ccihl, an executive director, the vice chairman and the managing director of phl, an executive director and a vice chairman and the managing director of cosmopolitan, and a non - executive director of rpml. mr. jimmy lo graduated from cornell university, new york, the united states, with a degree in architecture. he joined the century city group in 1998. mr. jimmy lo is primarily involved in overseeing the group’s property projects in the people’s republic of china (the “prc”) and, in addition, undertakes responsibilities in the business development of the century city group
1. iraq petroleum co. , ltd. (formerly turkish petroleum co .), 75 - year concession in provinces of bagdad and mosul east of the tigris river granted in 1925 as a revival and revision of concessions granted by turkey before world war i .
the ganzes were collectors of works by pablo picasso, early champions of frank stella and friends and patrons of jasper johns, robert rauschenberg and eva hesse. after the couple died, their children were forced to sell a collection that had adorned the walls of their childhood home .
some information relating to gratispool is contained on the directfoto web site. directfoto is a guernsey based technology retail shop, offering both digital and conventional film processing. it is run by john houslip, the son of ron houslip (ron houslip died in early august 2008) .
in persia, the anglo - persian oil co. , ltd. , obtained concessions through its subsidiary, north - persian oil co. , ltd. , under which it claimed control of a territory of 500, 000 square miles containing the most promising oil - bearing lands of persia. persian production, developed by the british largely to support the oil - burning british vessels during world war i, amounted to 16, 673, 000 barrels of crude in 1921. 28 the british government participated in this development directly through its part ownership of anglo - persian oil co. , ltd. in southern persia, also, anglo - persian oil co. , ltd. , held a 60 - year concession granted in 1901 to w. k. d' arcy. control of the northern persian concessions, however, was rendered insecure following world war i by the claim of the persian government that the grant was invalid. 29 iraq was not yet an important producer and the bahrein island, saudi arabia, kuwait, and qatar fields had not vet been discovered. 30
the cspc is also recalling 3, 000 invincibles transport converters toy sets. the manufacturer, toy century industrial ltd. , says that the surface paint on the toys contains high levels of lead that can be toxic when ingested. no incidents or injuries have been reported .
contrastingly mode of service is not likely to be critical to validity of the notice, provided an equally efficacious mode of service is adopted and the notice actually reaches the recipient, see sun alliance and london assurance co ltd v hayman [ 1975 ] 1 all er 248 ca .
gratispool free film for black & white pictures from around 1965. a 125asa panchromatic, believed to be a conventional celluloid base - no longer paper. but the carton still says
this film must be sent to gratispool ltd, glasgow, c1, for developing and printing
.
when confronted with documentation that showed the nahmads owned international art center, david nahmad’s lawyer, richard golub, said “whoever owns iac is irrelevant. the main thing is what are the issues in the case, and can the plaintiff prove them? ”
dixons sold the gratispool laboratories in a management buy - out (mbo) but retained the supasnaps stores. subsequently dixons sold supasnaps to sketchley (part of johnsons cleaners uk ltd) who took some advantage that the dry cleaning season tends to be the opposite of the amateur photography market .
in short, practically all of venezuela' s production and its most promising concessions came to be held by royal dutch - shell, the first important oil interest in venezuela, and by two american companies, jersey standard and gulf, which had built up their holdings by purchase, merger, and lease of the outstanding independent companies .
despite the diplomatic fallout, deputy international affairs minister ebrahim ebrahim also attended the wedding as did former government spokesperson jimmy manyi who once defended ministers who attended the guptas at their home and berated reporters who asked questions about the visits saying they were being “unethical” .
a breach of an intermediate or innominate term (i. e. neither a condition nor a warranty) only justifies termination if the breach is sufficiently serious. it must
go to the root of the contract
,
frustrate the commercial purpose
of the contract or
deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit” of the contract: hong kong fir shipping co. ltd v kawasaki kisen kaisha ltd [ 1962 ] 2 qb 26. in every case, the court will look at the nature and consequences of the breach to decide whether termination is justified .
after the war, strengthened by new experiences in large - scale coordination, new technical knowledge and positive examples of international collaboration, stout and his colleagues from the us (r. j. gettens, r. d. buck, w. g. constable, m. pease), the uk (f. i. g. rawlins, h. j. plenderleith, w. akers, h. ruhemann), the netherlands (a. van schendel) and belgium (p. coremans) began to work on a project that would launch conservation into the international sphere: the founding of the organization that would later become known as the international institute for conservation of historic and artistic works (iic), whose adopted definition of “conservation” would give prominence to prevention :
note that the jct suite of contracts provide that notice of termination of a contractor’s employment shall not be given
unreasonably
or
vexatiously
. in john jarvis ltd v rockdale housing association ltd (1986) 10 conlr 51, the court held that “when used in a legal context, the adverb' vexatiously' connotes an ulterior motive to oppress, harass or annoy…' unreasonably' … is a general term which can include anything which can be objectively judged to be unreasonable”. however, a notice is unlikely to qualify as unreasonable simply because it turns out to stem from a mistaken decision .
unknown until now is that the ganz heirs appear to have sold the collection months before the auction. the key player in the transaction was a corporation based on niue, a speck of an island in the south pacific. the company was named simsbury international corp .
ms. lo po man is executive vice chairman of the board, managing director of regal hotels international holdings ltd. ms. lo joined the group group in 2000 and was appointed to the board as an executive director in 2004. she graduated from duke university, north carolina, u. s. a. with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. miss lo is an experienced executive in sales and marketing and corporate management. she oversees the sales and marketing functions of the group and directed the marketing campaign of the group’s luxury residential development, regalia bay in stanley, hong kong, and undertakes responsibilities in the business development of the group. miss lo is an executive director of century city and paliburg and a non - executive director of rpml. she has also taken up the roles of a vice chairman of century city, the vice chairman of rpml and an executive director and a vice chairman of cosmopolitan on 18th december, 2013 .
when the politically connected guptas landed a chartered jet carrying 200 - odd wedding guests at waterkloof air force base, a national keypoint, without anyone seeming to know who had authorised the landing, political heavyweights who had long ignored the comfortable connections between the guptas and the ruling elite were forced to examine the relationship in the light of day .
gratispool means literally free film (roll films were called' spools' at that time), but the free film that first made gratispool famous, was a low cost paper based type, not celluloid based as sold by e. g. ilford and kodak. this not only enabled gratispool to operate profitably despite' giving away' a film with each returned set of prints, but also' locked' the customer into using gratispool for their future developing and printing (d & p) needs, since the paper negatives from the' free' film could only be printed using special reflected light enlargers, not by' contact' or other conventional transmitted light printing procedures.
early light international ( holdings ) ltd. ( 旭日國際控股有限公司 ) , through its subsidiary early light industrial co. , limited 旭日實業有限公司 , is the largest manufacturer of toys in the world and a significant player in the consumer products sector . the company was founded by current ceo and chairman , dr. francis choi . 
early light international (holdings) ltd. (旭日國際控股有限公司), through its subsidiary early light industrial co., limited 旭日實業有限公司, is the largest manufacturer of toys in the world and a significant player in the consumer products sector. the company was founded by current ceo and chairman, dr. francis choi.
early light international (holdings) ltd. (旭日國際控股有限公司), through its subsidiary early light industrial co., limited 旭日實業有限公司, is the largest manufacturer of toys in the world and a significant player in the consumer products sector. the company was founded by current ceo and chairman, dr. francis choi.