Sentence examples for luxury operations from inspiring English sources
In the first nine months of 2006, Ford of Europe had net income of $237 million, but its luxury operations lost $518 million.
Mark Fields Mark Fields, 44, had barely gotten Ford's European and luxury operations back on its feet, when he was yanked back to Ford's Dearborn, Mich., headquarters to take over for Executive Vice President Greg Smith Greg Smith, 54.
The fact that 70 percent of its fabric comes from Zegna's own mills makes the company an exceptional vertical luxury operation.
"This merger went off because there was a lack of understanding on what it takes to run a first-class luxury operation," said Arnold Aronson, a former Saks Fifth Avenue chief executive.
Problem: The present head of product is Richard Perry-Jones Richard Perry-Jones Perry-Jonesd the boss of the luxury operation is Wolfgang Reizle Wolfgang Reizle, a German who lives in London.
Trump not only sought an extension, but sought damages of $3 billion from the bank for its use of predatory lending practices to undermine the project and damage his reputation, which he claimed "is associated worldwide with on-time, under-budget, first-class construction projects and first-class luxury hotel operations".
Beneath the surface luxury, the operation is broke.
Ms. Mei, who had worked previously in leveraged finance at Goldman Sachs, raised $3 million in three months from a list of angel investors that included the chairmen of a global bank and a management consulting firm, as well as the chief executive of one large luxury retail operation and the chairman of another.
Ford hired Reitzle to its luxury-car operations, now called the Premier Auto Group.
Previously, he was head of the company's European and luxury-brand operations, which he was credited with bringing back to profitability.
But you might want to think of it as a luxury retail operation, hosting such upscale names as Burberry, Chanel and the only Harrods outlets in the U.K. outside of the behemoth in Knightsbridge.
