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Diplomats, business people flood Cuba amid warmer US ties

2015-05-10 17:52:01| Beverages - Topix.net

Top diplomats from Japan, Europe and Russia have visited the island in recent months, bidding to stake out or maintain ties with an island that suddenly looks like a brighter economic prospect due to warming U.S.-Cuba relations. On Sunday night, Francois Hollande becomes the first French president to ever visit communist Cuba.

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2014-11-24 02:46:47| Agriculture - Topix.net

Vision-Ease Lens, Ramsey, named John Weber chief executive. Weber was president of CooperVision and served as executive vice president of worldwide operations for Ocular Sciences.

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Business people

2014-11-02 23:01:22| Electronics - Topix.net

Avionte, Eagan , named Mark Young chief financial officer. Young was general counsel and chairman of the board at MentorMate and was chief financial officer and general counsel at Blue Rock Advisors.

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People: the business diary

2014-09-22 06:45:13| Beverages - Topix.net

Chief executive Ivan Menezes was lured by one private shareholder into enthusing about the commercial prospects for the Johnnie Walker maker from the upcoming Ryder Cup, given that the company owns Gleneagles hotel. The private shareholder ventured innocently whether the famous hotel might provide "anything for shareholders - a cup of tea and a biscuit?" Later Humer provoked further unwitting shareholder glee when, explaining Diageo's moves to crack down on illegal tampering with Scotch whisky, he said the company had investigated ways of having caps that once illicitly removed from bottles "could not be put back on again".

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