All but one of the meetings were in California, where the other directors were based.
Two-thirds of the firm's 280 highest-paid employees are in Britain, at least half of its directors are based there and in the past two years about a quarter of recruits for its elite corps of international managers were British.A senior Hong Kong official speaking to The Economist in November dismissed the idea of an imminent move, and his spokesman recently confirmed his view had not changed.
We deployed them to all the studios where our board of directors are based.
The last players' contract, negotiated by the board in 2007, when there was no executive director, was based on optimistic assumptions that were immediately undercut by the recession.
I thought that the path that I had to follow to become a director was based on how film-makers like John Huston, Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges all got the opportunity to direct.
Graham Sharp, a founding director, is based in Kensington.
The flamboyant styling, said Ed Welburn, G.M.'s design director, is based on the original 1959 Corvette racecar concept.
Two creations by Jelon Vieira, the company's artistic director, were based on capoeira, a traditional and spectacular Brazilian martial art notable for its quick fierce kicks.
This year's display, orchestrated by Randall Yaw, Saks's New York store window director, is based on "One Enchanted Christmas," the story of a fabulously attired little girl named Isa; her grandmother Francesca, a seamstress who favors sandals and Chinese jackets; and her Great-Aunt Tori, an Auntie Mame-type character, it seems.
