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Louis Vuitton New Sydney Store VIP Party
Early today luxury brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store (Louis Vuitton George Street Maison) in Sydney, Australia, and this was followed up this evening with a VIP party with a healthy amount of celebrities and other VIP's on hand, along with about 30 media personnel covering the black carpet outside the building.
The Louis Vuitton George Street Maison, understood to have cost in the region of $10 million, will deliver three-storeys of men's and women's fashion, plus "personalised services".
The iconic French fashion brand enjoyed its VIP opening in Sydney earlier today with Australian actress Cate Blanchett getting a bit of media rub off from the event today.
Tonight many more celebs were present with the list including Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones guitarist), Melissa Doyle, Miranda Kerr, Erika Heynatz, Delta Goodrem, Isabel Lucas, Megan Gale, Laura Bingle, Heidi Middleton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Samantha Harris.
Company CEO Yves Carcelle was on hand at both events, and was Oceania CEO Philip Corne.
Mr Corne advised the new development had been a long time coming for the brand, which now has 10 stores across the nation.
"We wouldn't commit to the investment until we found the right space that allowed us to present the brand as we should," he said.
Corne understands that his brand is high end luxury and not for everyone: "People have worked hard and are rewarding themselves."
As Time magazine once said, it was the French who "practically invented the notion of luxury in the 17th century, and in the 18th century, when Marie Antoinette took up residence in Versailles, and added her own twist to the genre". After conducting a survey on global luxury, the magazine concluded Europeans regard "luxury as a means of expressing their individuality and style while placing high authenticity and pedigree".
In Sydney apparently there is a group of cashed up consumers who don't mind spending up on luxury goods.
A big congratulations to top brass Yves Carcelle, Philip Corne, Jean-Baptiste Debains and their team for putting on a great day and evening event.
Louis Vuitton cool and hip tips: we understand that the company sometimes creates very limited amounts of personalised goods. How about a guitar case for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, a surfboard and surfboard cover (what pro would actually use that) and even a skate-board and cover (good luck with Maroubra Beach Skatepark local boys). When LV talks "personalised services" and "personalised products", they aren't kidding.
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Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton (Australia)
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www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
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Music News Australia
Captain Carlos Mirpuri ( Vice Precident of Hi Fly ) brings in their Maltese registered A380-841 for it's last flight in their colours back to Toulouse for a landing on Runway 14 right after having performed a lowpass and slow flyby. Onboard the aircraft besides a few crew members was his brother and company CEO Paulo Mirpuri. A sad end for this magnificent and beautifully painted A380!
Name: Mason Thomas Gardner
Age: 36
Aliases: Cross, M.G., Mason, Mr Gardner,
Nationality: American, possesses Armenian citizenship through mother
Profile: Mason’s great grandfather was a President of the United States who served for two terms. But after his death, his family didn’t run for office or get involved with political things, instead opting to work on the business his great grandfather started prior to his election campaigns. In his early days, Mason met Remus Edens, who became his university professor, and eventually his mentor and closest friend.
After deciding to pursue a path in the company, Mason worked as one of the highest ranking CEOs, rebuilding it from fortune and surpassed his father’s skills and management. He was later introduced into Edens’ agency after they met in person again, but turned down his offer to become an agent and decided to use his skills to fund the agency secretly.
Mason eventually developed another condition—-gangrene in his left hand, which was very severe and was advised to cut it, but he decided to go through a hard process of replacing it cybernetically with a red arm, which also grew stronger with his powers. To keep the dual identity of his public image and secret life, he usually has a way to be trusted.
Powers and abilities: Despite born with dwarfism and his recent condition, Mason is a very intellectual man, worthy enough to be a successor of Remus Edens. Skills include advanced combat, high financing and trading skills and etc.
As for his powers, he possesses the ability of net creation, (which comes in green and shares similarity to a spider’s web). The net is able to be launched from his hands, functioning as protective fields, chains and etc. However, a possible downside is the more powers he uses, the gangrene in his hands could spread through his entire body.
Equipment: Armoured suit, self made jetpack, orange built in lenses for enhanced sight and night vision, personal red hand that can be concealed through skin, and used for offensive, defensive and healing purposes.
Personality: Usually keeps a low profile despite much publicity. Warm and kind, speaks with cultured and fashionable mannerisms, unlike most “evil company CEOS”. His selfless dedication/goals are to improve humanity and technology and helping people, yet he is very busy that he doesn’t care much about his health.
If you're wondering about the sort of random numbers on these 3 SVTX Gevos, the coal company CEO who originally ordered them was a Penn State alum which explains the paint scheme; and the numbers come from their football national championship seasons. As a proud Auburn alum, I was totally fine that the one parked for perfect rosters was for the year they beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl:)
Profile
Name: Isaiah Titus "Issac" Elroy Harrington
Villain's name: T3n0ic/ mostly called Mech Prince
Age: 29
Bio: Harrington was the CEO of Harrington Industries in San Diego, Malibu, Berkeley Burbank and various cities in California. When his company started to lose employees and would soon be bankrupt, he tried to save his company but ended up failing. In depression and guilty of his failures, he tried faking his death by blowing up his penthouses in San Francisco, but was realised by the others. The board discovered he was trying to use the remaining stock of the company to buy another big office in Sacramento, and was subsequently fired from his board.
Close to losing everything, he decided to jump off his apartment in Oakland. However, he survived the fall due to his spine, and was grafted by a new one. His saviours were actually his rival companies' CEOs, who had extorted his money, hired hackers to steal his information from the systems, and recruited a whole lot of his former staff/employees. Harrington had to endure months of procedures bonding to a cybernetic prototype, his body (mainly his neck, jaw, and right leg) ended up becoming a cyborg. After that, he retaliated by killing his own board and some CEOs after he was freed. Harrington restructured his company and secretly hired the E.S.S along with various supervillains. He would eventually become a major foe of the superheroes he encountered.
Powers and abilities: Technopathy, manipulate gadgets and robots, turrets, anything that is technologcial. Can read data fast and interact with it. cybernetic body and implants grants him some intelligence, able to create energy, melee and heavy-based (missiles and rockets) weapons. Skilled businessman and good at accounting. Knows how to fight in combat. Leadership.
Weaknesses: EMPs, magnetism (upgrades can minimise this), cannot control things that have no electronic parts in them or things that are fully biological. If distanced away from the modern world, then his powers are useless, rendering him powerless. His wealth, importance, status and his place in the world.
Equipment: Cybernetic suit and armor, though his arms are more flesh. Weapons he can create from his armor.
Personality: Rational, headstrong, arrogant, sly but can be gentle, precise, thoughtful.
Manufacturer: Edson Motors
Nationality: America
First assembled: July 6, 2198
Birthplace: Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Engine: 1.1 L I3
HP: 92 BHP
0-60: 6.2 seconds
Top Speed: 113.20 MPH
Edson Motors was a startup company in the 2180s from company CEO and founder Pat Edson. With alot of startup companies, it;s usually a start with a high-performance vehicle of sorts that makes a lot of promises that are never kept and then everything falls off the radar shortly later. Edson's vision was the opposite of the spectrum. He proposed a small, 3 wheeled commuter car for the masses, built to be extremely affordable and efficient. "Car, is actually a generous term, as it's more akin to an enclosed motorcycle if anything, right up to where one can legally drive it with a motorcycle license. Such ease of access wasn't easy to achieve as Edson motors had to battle with numerous government regulations to allow such availability. It was a difficult struggle, but come 2198, Edson Motors released it's first product, the TRW100. The TRW100 was an amusing little vehicle that due to it's small size was very versatile in an urban environment. The TRW100 could actually carry two people in it's tandem-style canopy, and due to it's small 1 L I3 engine combined with an FRS (Fuel Reserve System) is incredibility efficient. Also due to it's extremely light weight, it's not necessarily a slouch for something never meant to be a performer. 0-60 takes just over 6 seconds, and top speed maxes out at 110+ MPH. The TRW100 went on sale for a retail price of about $7,000, and was a hit. The TRW100 is still manufactured today in various trims and bodystyles, and Edson Motors marches along as a motorcycle manufacturer.
One of the few other characters that's not a class I was able to make. Apart from trying to figure out his chest hair, he was pretty simple.
As the annual GCPD Fundraiser Ball draws closer, the mayor chooses Bruce Wayne as the host for this year’s celebration. It has become a tradition for the most important people of the police force along with other influential people to gather at a place each year, and the size of Wayne Manor is perfectly suited for a celebration this big. Although Bruce sees this as a great opportunity to retain his relationships with Gotham’s elite, something doesn’t sit right with him; the amount of messages he has been getting from an anonymous source all containing riddles has been getting worse, leading to his rising paranoia that someone figured out his secret identity. Unable to let his guard down for a single night during the party but not willing to put on the mask for the entire night either, he asks Lucius Fox for a solution. As a precaution, he also informs Barbara of his suspicions and asks her to keep an eye out while he remains vigilant at the party while having Duke present at the party too.
On the night of the party, Lucius drops off a package on the front door of Wayne Manor. As Bruce opens it he finds a specifically made suit that can function as both a regular outfit and a batsuit. The note attached informs him that as long as he doesn’t change from one version to the other within the plain sight of others, he made sure the two are distinct enough so that it's not obvious it's still Bruce in the suit. Before he is able to try out how the suit transforms after putting it on the first guests arrive at the manor, giving him no choice but to figure it out later.
Not long after the mayor, commissioner Gordon and officer Montoya along with most of the other guests have arrived at the manor, Bruce spots Vicki Vale in the crowd. The playboy and the news reporter share a long history together, and have recently started dating again. Being around his romantic partner distracts Bruce for long enough that he doesn't notice some men dressed in dark green suits slipping past the security along with the mayor and her husband suddenly disappearing from the party. It is not until Duke disappears too that Bruce starts suspecting something is going on behind the scenes. Before he can excuse himself from Vicki to go investigate, all of the lights switch out causing a moment of panic in the crowd. He tries to get in contact with Barbara to see if she has spotted anything out of the ordinary, but there is only radio silence on the other side. Along with that, he finds that all doors leading out of the room have been locked making it impossible to leave. Sensing something dangerous is about to happen, Bruce makes use of the darkness and quickly runs to another room to change into his batsuit. Although it takes him a bit of time to figure out how to change the suit from one mode to another, eventually he figures it out. As he takes a quick look in the mirror before heading out again to investigate the disturbance, he notices how with a couple of simple tricks Lucius succeeded in differentiating the two suits and notes how well the dark blue works.
Now fully suited up, Bruce runs to the main hall again and uses his grapple gun to get to the roof, only to find that the lights are still out and that Vicki is nowhere to be seen too now. The sound of a marble statue crashing on the ground and a couple of spotlights going on directs the crowd’s attention to the middle of the room, where a strange figure has climbed on the pedestal. The man is dressed in a dark green suit, is wearing a black helmet with a dark green question mark painted on it and seems to need a cane to walk properly. He introduces himself as the Riddler, and asks if Batman is somewhere in the crowd. He drops down from the ceiling and makes use of his cape to slow down his fall, making sure he doesn't land on any of the guests. Delighted, the Riddler asks him if he wants to play a game with him and answer some riddles. Batman accepts, and suddenly a spotlight pointed at where Riddler is standing gets turned on revealing two figures at the bottom of the pedestal. Upon closer inspection he notices that the two are actually the mayor and her husband, both with dark green helmets with question marks on their heads and with improvised explosive devices strapped to them.
Riddler explains the rules and stakes of his game; Batman simply has to answer three riddles in order to free the two hostages. However, if he does not answer all the questions within three minutes, the bombs will detonate. And to spice things up, he bought one of his friends along; Scarecrow, infamous for his powerful fear toxins. If Batman happens to answer one of the riddles incorrectly or tries to save the hostages before the game is over, he will release enough gas to kill everyone in the room. In order to demonstrate the power of his toxin, he has put Vicki Vale and Robin under the influence of the gas.
As Batman accepts the rules of the game, Riddler starts the countdown and gives him the first riddle he has to solve.
‘’What is something nobody ever wants to have, but nobody ever wants to lose either?’’
While Batman struggles to solve the riddle, he feels a light tap on his shoulder. He looks behind him and sees commissioner Gordon and officer Montoya standing there, wanting to aid him in finding the solution. He whispers to him that he thinks the solution has something to do with a lawsuit. As it's his best bet, he cautiously asks if a lawsuit is the answer to the riddle. It turns out to be the correct answer, and he tells how a lawsuit from Wayne Enterprises led to the bankruptcy of his company. Bruce figures he must be referring to the recent case from his company against NygmaTech, where a former Wayne ENT employer sold some of their confidential prototypes to NygmaTech. When they started producing products made based on the stolen prototypes, his company filed a lawsuit against them for intellectual property infringement. Wayne ENT won the lawsuit, which led to the bankruptcy of NygmaTech and company CEO Edward Nygma disappearing from the public eye.
Seeing how the clock is still ticking, Riddler moves on to the next riddle.
‘’I'm something only used by those too scared to show their real faces to the world. What am i?’’
Another riddle that Batman has trouble solving at first. It isn’t until he remembers what he wears to avoid people finding out his real identity; a mask. He gives that as his answer, and it turns out to be right once more. Riddler starts ranting about how much he despises vigilantes like Batman hiding their true identity to the world so they can't be held responsible for the damage they cause. Batman points out the fact Riddler is wearing a mask as well, but to prove he isn’t afraid to hide his identity he takes it off, showing he is actually Edward Nygma himself.
With 30 seconds left on the counter, Nygma moves on to the next and final riddle Batman has to solve.
“During the day, I pretend to be a regular millionaire in Gotham. But during the night, I show my true colors as a gritty and merciless vigilante. What is my real name?”
The only riddle Batman knows the answer to right away, but answering it might ruin him forever. Nygma sees how he is hesitant to answer, and begins to pressure him by saying he knows about his actual identity and by counting down the seconds left before the bombs explode. Seeing how the lives of everyone in this room depend on how he’ll answer this question, he decides to answer truthfully.
‘’My name is Bru-’’
Just as he is about to answer, he notices something on the window behind the Riddler; Batwoman. Before he can react, she bursts through the window and knocks him off the pedestal. Before she makes sure to defuse the bombs, she throws a respirator mask to Batman so he can face the Scarecrow without succumbing to the gas. Now that Scarecrow’s only real weapon doesn't have an effect on Bruce anymore, he is able to take him out and seal the container with the toxin with ease. Seeing how Batwoman succeeded in taking out the Riddler as well, Bruce throws a small bomb against the blocked off door so the people in the room can leave and call for help. Batman quickly changes back to his regular outfit and comes up with the story that Riddler’s henchmen knocked him out during the event when the authorities arrive. Commissioner Gordon and officer Montoya stay for a short while to gather some evidence before leaving to make sure the two villains arrive at Arkham without any problems.
A couple of days have passed since the events at the GCPD Fundraiser Ball, and Duke is still recovering from being exposed to so much of Scarecrow’s toxins. While Bruce and Barbara try to get some rest after last night’s patrol back in the Batcave, they suddenly find that the hidden entrance back to Wayne Manor is locked. As Bruce runs to the Batcomputer to get access to the security monitors of the Manor, he sees The Riddler still in an Arkham prisoner outfit walking through the halls with Harley Quinn. After switching over to another monitor he sees something even more shocking however: The Joker, having reappeared after months of not committing any crimes, is now standing in the hallway of Wayne Manor.
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The next chapter in my Batman storyline. Enjoy!
After mercenaries abducted the young daughter of a tech companies CEO for ransom, unaware that the company in question is actually a subsidiary of the AKU Partnership, an AKU Tactical Retrieval team was deployed to the abandoned gas station where the mercs where hiding out in order to return the girl.
Even if the financial costs of such an operation are not insignificant, sometimes in business one has to make a point.
Credit to Willhoit for his AKU faction and credit to Devid VII for his AdMter drone.
"Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day."-Albert camus
while searching through their extensive weapon archives, Tachima researches uncovered a pallet of untouched sterling submachineguns, in pristine firing condition. Looking to transform this iconic smg, the team got to work on one of their most extensive products. they transformed a 1940's submachine gun into a futuristic close quarters dealer of death. The Mk. 5 was born and dubbed "Cordis Die"- meaning judgement day in latin.
Features:
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> upgraded , high effeciency and stainless steel eternals
>ultra-durable and light weight reinforced alluminum alloy frame
>booseted rate of fire from around 500 to 900-950 RPM
> custom built tactical rails for mounting additional accesories
>collapsable /tactical stock
>illumination enhanced iron sights
>percision laser sight
>high stability foregrip
>150 round drum mag (9x19mm) with LED ammo indicator
>on-board barrel thermometer to monitor barrel temperature under strenuous rapid fire
>universal charging handle and fire selector
>custom rubber inter-laced pistol grip
>additional millimeter scanner reflex sight ( sends a pulse of x-ray detecting beams that displays enemies behind cover, walls, etc. via optic sensor on left sideof reflex sight.- default red plus retical. each pulse is castout every .5 seconds and is detail accurate for up to 150 meters to the closest half mm.)
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ARE YOU READY FOR JUDGEMENT DAY?
all logos/ emblems/ acessories are official trademarks are property of tachima industries. any violations without permission from the company CEO (Zach) ,will result federal punishment, that is if tachima does'nt find you first.
JUDGEMENT DAY IS UPON US!
ok guys here she is tachima's recreationof the sterling!
credit goes to zach (for workspace of course) , Mr socialist, and Shockwave for all their help in making this weapon. It is an extreme honor to take place in this competition and i love tachima!
hope you guys enjoy!
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
Louis Vuitton New Sydney Store VIP Party
Early today luxury brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store (Louis Vuitton George Street Maison) in Sydney, Australia, and this was followed up this evening with a VIP party with a healthy amount of celebrities and other VIP's on hand, along with about 30 media personnel covering the black carpet outside the building.
The Louis Vuitton George Street Maison, understood to have cost in the region of $10 million, will deliver three-storeys of men's and women's fashion, plus "personalised services".
The iconic French fashion brand enjoyed its VIP opening in Sydney earlier today with Australian actress Cate Blanchett getting a bit of media rub off from the event today.
Tonight many more celebs were present with the list including Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones guitarist), Melissa Doyle, Miranda Kerr, Erika Heynatz, Delta Goodrem, Isabel Lucas, Megan Gale, Laura Bingle, Heidi Middleton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Samantha Harris.
Company CEO Yves Carcelle was on hand at both events, and was Oceania CEO Philip Corne.
Mr Corne advised the new development had been a long time coming for the brand, which now has 10 stores across the nation.
"We wouldn't commit to the investment until we found the right space that allowed us to present the brand as we should," he said.
Corne understands that his brand is high end luxury and not for everyone: "People have worked hard and are rewarding themselves."
As Time magazine once said, it was the French who "practically invented the notion of luxury in the 17th century, and in the 18th century, when Marie Antoinette took up residence in Versailles, and added her own twist to the genre". After conducting a survey on global luxury, the magazine concluded Europeans regard "luxury as a means of expressing their individuality and style while placing high authenticity and pedigree".
In Sydney apparently there is a group of cashed up consumers who don't mind spending up on luxury goods.
A big congratulations to top brass Yves Carcelle, Philip Corne, Jean-Baptiste Debains and their team for putting on a great day and evening event.
Louis Vuitton cool and hip tips: we understand that the company sometimes creates very limited amounts of personalised goods. How about a guitar case for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, a surfboard and surfboard cover (what pro would actually use that) and even a skate-board and cover (good luck with Maroubra Beach Skatepark local boys). When LV talks "personalised services" and "personalised products", they aren't kidding.
Websites
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton (Australia)
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
Splash News
Media Man News
Music News Australia
From Left To Right
Maxwell Biggums - Son of a wealthy interplanetary weapons company CEO who generally is a worthless person with no taste and an incomprehensible amount of wealth - Stolen from his father's accounts, of course. Generally very childish and violent, has a following from enterprising people looking to leech off his ill-gotten financial status.
The Ancient Astronaut - A wanderer cursed with longevity. He's been around for so long that he doesn't even quite remember why.
Admiral Tsu'Kang - Hero of an intergalactically popular serial epic.
Oro Goldan - Deadly cybernetic assassin with no moral code. Secretly practices something resembling a religious following for some thing called 'Anni Mai'.
Judicer Xort - An official in the legal system of a particularly draconian culture. Has the combined role of Judge and Mercenary for the state.
Disneyland Paris is an entertainment resort in Chessy, France, 32 kilometres (20 miles) east of Paris. It encompasses two theme parks, resort hotels, a shopping, dining and entertainment complex, and a golf course. Disneyland Park is the original theme park of the complex, opening in 1992. A second theme park, Walt Disney Studios Park, opened in 2002. Disneyland Paris celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2022; by then 375 million people had visited, making it the most visited theme park in Europe. It is the second Disney park outside the United States, following the opening of the Tokyo Disney Resort in 1983, and the largest. Disneyland Paris is also the only Disney resort outside of the United States to be completely owned by The Walt Disney Company. It includes seven hotels: Disney Hotel Santa Fe, Disney Hotel Cheyenne, Sequoia Lodge, Newport Bay Club, Hotel New York – the Art of Marvel, The Disneyland Hotel, and Davy Crockett Ranch.
Disneyland Paris is considered to be the largest single-site employer in France with its 17,000 employees.
Ownership
Walt Disney announced a €1 billion ($1.25 billion) bailout plan to rescue its subsidiary Disneyland Paris, the Financial Times reported on 6 October 2014. The park is burdened by its debt, which is calculated at about €1.75 billion ($2.20 billion) and roughly 15 times its gross average earnings.
Until June 2017, Disney only held a minority stake in the resort. In 2017, The Walt Disney Company offered an informal takeover of Euro Disney S.C.A., buying 9% of the company from Kingdom Holding and an open offer of 2 euros per share for the remaining stock. This brought The Walt Disney Company's total ownership to 85.7%. The Walt Disney company also invested an additional 1.5 billion euros to strengthen and develop Disneyland Paris. In June 2017, Disney completed a tender offer to own over 97% of Euro Disney and then implemented a full buyout of the shares they did not already own. In 2018, after taking full control of Disneyland Paris, Walt Disney reported its plans to invest 2 billion euro ($2.47 billion) in Disneyland Paris. The investment aimed to expand the park with a lake and new themed areas based on Marvel superheroes, Disney's animated movie Frozen and Star Wars. The investment also sought to develop 'new attractions and live entertainment experiences'.
History
Following the success of Disneyland in California, plans to build a similar theme park in Europe emerged in 1966 with sites in Frankfurt, Paris, London or Milan under consideration. Under the leadership of E. Cardon Walker, Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983 in Japan with instant success, forming a catalyst for international expansion. In late 1984 the heads of Disney's theme park division, Dick Nunis and Jim Cora, presented a list of approximately 1,200 possible European locations for the park. Britain, France, Italy and Spain were all considered. However, Britain and Italy were dropped from the list due to both lacking a suitable expanse of flat land. By March 1985, the number of possible locations for the park had been reduced to four; two in France and two in Spain. Both nations saw the potential economic advantages of a Disney theme park and offered competing financing deals to Disney.
Both Spanish sites were located near the Mediterranean and offered a subtropical climate similar to Disney's parks in California and Florida. Disney had asked each site to provide average temperatures for every month for the previous 40 years, which proved a complicated endeavour as none of the records were computerised. The site in Pego, Alicante became the front-runner, but the location was controversial as it would have meant the destruction of Marjal de Pego-Oliva marshlands, a site of natural beauty and one of the last homes of the almost extinct Samaruc or Valencia Toothcarp, so there was some local outcry among environmentalists. Disney had also shown interest in a site near Toulon in southern France, not far from Marseille. The pleasing landscape of that region, as well as its climate, made the location a top competitor for what would be called Euro Disneyland. However, shallow bedrock was encountered beneath the site, which would have rendered construction too difficult. Finally, a site in the rural town of Marne-la-Vallée was chosen because of its proximity to Paris and its central location in Western Europe. This location was estimated to be no more than a four-hour drive for 68 million people and no more than a two-hour flight for a further 300 million.
Michael Eisner signed the first letter of agreement with the French government for the 20-square-kilometre (4,940-acre) site on 18 December 1985, and the first financial contracts were drawn up during the following spring. The final contract was signed by the leaders of the Walt Disney Company and the French government and territorial collectivities on 24 March 1987. Construction began in August 1988, and in December 1990, an information centre named "Espace Euro Disney" was opened to show the public what was being constructed. Plans for a theme park next to Euro Disneyland based on the entertainment industry, Disney-MGM Studios Europe, quickly went into development, scheduled to open in 1996 with a construction budget of US$2.3 billion. The construction manager was Bovis.
In order to provide lodging to patrons, it was decided that 5,200 Disney-owned hotel rooms would be built within the complex. In March 1988, Disney and a council of architects (Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Robert A.M. Stern, Stanley Tigerman, and Robert Venturi) decided on an exclusively American theme in which each hotel would depict a region of the United States. At the time of the opening in April 1992, seven hotels collectively housing 5,800 rooms had been built.
An entertainment, shopping, and dining complex based on Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney was designed by Frank Gehry.
With its towers of oxidised silver and bronze-coloured stainless steel under a canopy of lights, it opened as Festival Disney. For a projected daily attendance of 55,000, Euro Disney planned to serve an estimated 14,000 people per hour inside the Euro Disneyland park. In order to accomplish this, 29 restaurants were built inside the park (with a further 11 restaurants built at the Euro Disney resort hotels and five at Festival Disney). Menus and prices were varied with an American flavor predominant and Disney's precedent of not serving alcoholic beverages was continued in the park.
2,300 patio seats (30% of park seating) were installed to satisfy Europeans' expected preference of eating outdoors in good weather. In test kitchens at Walt Disney World, recipes were adapted for European tastes. Walter Meyer, executive chef for menu development at Euro Disney and executive chef of food projects development at Walt Disney World noted, "A few things we did need to change, but most of the time people kept telling us, 'Do your own thing. Do what's American'."
Recruitment/employment
Unlike Disney's American theme parks, Euro Disney aimed for permanent employees (an estimated requirement of 12,000 for the theme park itself), as opposed to seasonal and temporary part-time employees. Casting centres were set up in Paris, London, and Amsterdam. However, it was understood by the French government and Disney that "a concentrated effort would be made to tap into the local French labour market". Disney sought workers with sufficient communication skills, who spoke two European languages (French and one other), and were socially outgoing. Following precedent, Euro Disney set up its own Disney University to train workers. 24,000 people had applied by November 1991.
In 2011, the park provided 55,643 direct and indirect jobs in France. According to Damien Audric, Director of Development and the Environment, Disneyland Paris would generate 63,000 jobs by 2022. Overall, in 2022, Disneyland Paris was still Seine-et-Marne's largest employer.
Controversies
The prospect of a Disney park in France was a subject of debate and controversy. Critics, who included prominent French intellectuals, denounced what they considered to be the cultural imperialism of Euro Disney and felt it would encourage an unhealthy American type of consumerism in France. On 28 June 1992, a group of French farmers blockaded Euro Disney in protest of farm policies supported at the time by the United States.
A journalist at the centre-right French newspaper Le Figaro wrote, "I wish with all my heart that the rebels would set fire to [Euro] Disneyland." Ariane Mnouchkine, a Parisian stage director, named the concept a "cultural Chernobyl", a phrase which would be echoed in the media during Euro Disney's initial years.
In response, French philosopher Michel Serres noted, "It is not America that is invading us. It is we who adore it, who adopt its fashions and above all, its words." Euro Disney S.C.A.'s then-chairman Robert Fitzpatrick responded, "We didn't come in and say O.K., we're going to put a beret and a baguette on Mickey Mouse. We are who we are."
Topics of controversy also included Disney's American managers requiring English to be spoken at all meetings and Disney's appearance code for members of staff, which listed regulations and limitations for the use of makeup, facial hair, tattoos, jewellery, and more.
French labour unions mounted protests against the appearance code, which they saw as "an attack on individual liberty". Others criticised Disney as being insensitive to French culture, individualism, and privacy, because restrictions on individual or collective liberties were illegal under French law, unless it could be demonstrated that the restrictions are requisite to the job and do not exceed what is necessary.
Disney countered by saying that a ruling that barred them from imposing such an employment standard could threaten the image and long-term success of the park. "For us, the appearance code has a great effect from a product identification standpoint," said Thor Degelmann, Euro Disney's personnel director. "Without it we couldn't be presenting the Disney product that people would be expecting."
Opening day and early years
Euro Disney opened for employee preview and testing in March 1992. During this time visitors were mostly park employees and their family members, who tested facilities and operations. The press was able to visit the day before the park's opening day on 12 April 1992.
On 12 April 1992, Euro Disney Resort and its theme park, Euro Disneyland, officially opened. Visitors were warned of chaos on the roads. A government survey indicated that half a million people carried by 90,000 cars might attempt to enter the complex. French radio warned traffic to avoid the area. By midday, the car park was approximately half full, suggesting an attendance level below 25,000. Explanations of the lower-than-expected turnout included speculation that people heeded the advice to stay away and that the one-day strike that cut the direct RER railway connection to Euro Disney from the centre of Paris made the park inaccessible. Due to the European recession that August, the park faced financial difficulties as there were a lack of things to do and an overabundance of hotels, leading to underperformance. The failure of Euro Disney caused the cancellation of several projects like WestCOT, Disney's America, Tomorrowland 2055 at Disneyland and Beastly Kingdom at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
A new Indiana Jones roller-coaster ride was opened at Euro Disney in 1993. A few weeks after the ride opened there were problems with the emergency brakes which resulted in guest injuries.
In 1994, the company was still having financial difficulties. There were rumours that Euro Disney was getting close to having to file for bankruptcy. The banks and the backers had meetings to work out some of the financial problems facing Euro Disney. In March 1994, Team Disney went into negotiations with the banks so that they could get some help for their debt. As a last resort, the Walt Disney Company threatened to close the Disneyland Paris park, leaving the banks with the land.
In May 1992, entertainment magazine The Hollywood Reporter reported that about 25% of Euro Disney's workforce, approximately 3,000 people, had resigned from their jobs because of unacceptable working conditions. It also reported that the park's attendance was far behind expectations. The disappointing attendance can be at least partly explained by the recession and increased unemployment, which was affecting France and most of the rest of the developed world at this time; when construction of the resort began, the economy was still on an upswing.
Euro Disney S.C.A. responded in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, in which Robert Fitzpatrick claimed only 1,000 people had left their jobs. In response to the financial situation, Fitzpatrick ordered that the Disney-MGM Studios Europe project would be put on halt until a further decision could be made. Prices at the hotels were reduced.
Despite these efforts in May 1992, park attendance was around 25,000 (some reports give a figure of 30,000) instead of the predicted 60,000. The Euro Disney Company stock price spiraled downwards and on 23 July 1992, Euro Disney announced an expected net loss in its first year of operation of approximately 300 million French francs. During Euro Disney's first winter, hotel occupancy was so low that it was decided to close the Newport Bay Club hotel during the season.
Initial hopes were that each visitor would spend around US$33 per day, but near the end of 1992, analysts found spending to be around 12% lower. Efforts to improve attendance included serving alcoholic beverages with meals inside the Euro Disneyland park, in response to a presumed European demand, which began 12 June 1993.
By the summer of 1994, Euro Disney was burdened with $3 billion worth of debt. Disney CFO Richard Nanula and Wall Street financier Steve Norris worked with Alwaleed's business advisor Mustafa Al Hejailan to rescue the overleveraged company. In that deal, Disney's 49 percent stake was reduced to 39 percent, the banks agreed to forego interest payments until 1997, Disney wrote off royalties and fees until 1999, and Alwaleed agreed to pay $345 million for a 24 percent stake in Euro Disney.
1995 turnaround
On 1 October 1994, Euro Disney changed its name to Disneyland Paris. On 31 May 1995, a new attraction opened at the theme park. Space Mountain: De la Terre à la Lune had been planned since the inception of Disneyland Paris under the name Discovery Mountain, but was reserved for a revival of public interest. With a redesign of the attraction (which had premiered as Space Mountain at the Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom in 1975) including a "cannon launch" system, inversions, and an on-ride soundtrack, the US$100 million attraction was dedicated in a ceremony attended by celebrities such as Elton John, Claudia Schiffer, and Buzz Aldrin.
On 25 July 1995, Disneyland Paris reported its first quarterly profit of US$35.3 million. On 15 November 1995, the results for the fiscal year ending 30 September 1995 were released; in one year the theme park's attendance had climbed from 8.8 million to 10.7 million, an increase of 21%. Hotel occupancy had also climbed from 60 to 68.5%. After debt payments, Disneyland Paris ended the year with a net profit of US$22.8 million.
2000–2017
As of March 2002, Disneyland Paris underwent a second name change to Disneyland Resort Paris. In 2002, Euro Disney S.C.A. and the Walt Disney Company announced another annual profit for Disneyland Paris. However, it then incurred a net loss in the three years following. By March 2004, the Walt Disney Company had agreed to write off all debt that Euro Disney S.C.A. owed to the Walt Disney Company. On 1 December 2003, Euro Disney S.C.A launched the 'Need Magic?' campaign, which lasted until March 2006 to bring new, first-time European visitors to the resort. And by 2005, having been open fewer than fifteen years, Disneyland Paris had become the number one tourist destination for Europe, outselling the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower.
In March 2006, Disneyland Resort Paris launched the advertising campaign "believe in your dreams" and paired with the TGV East European Line to encourage European family attendance to the resort. Shortly after announcing a 12% increase in revenues for the fiscal year of 2007, Euro Disney S.C.A. implemented a "reverse split" consolidation of shares of 100 to 1. August 2008 brought the resort's 200 millionth visitor, and made for the third consecutive year of growth in revenues for the resort as well as a record 15.3 million visitors in attendance.
In 2009, the resort demonstrated dedication to the recruitment of new employment positions, especially for the Christmas and summer seasons, which continued in 2010 and 2011 when 2,000 and 3,000 employment contracts being offered, respectively. The 2009 fiscal year saw a decrease in revenues by 7% and a net loss of 63 million followed by stable revenues at 1.2 billion in fiscal 2010. Euro Disney S.C.A. refinanced their debt to Walt Disney Company again for 1.3 billion euros in September 2012.
A study done by the Inter-ministerial Delegation reviewing Disneyland Paris' contribution to the French economy was released in time for the Resort's 20th anniversary in March 2012. It found that despite the resort's financial hardships, it has generated "37 billion euros in tourism-related revenues over twenty years", supports on average 55,000 jobs in France annually, and that one job at Disneyland Paris generates nearly three jobs elsewhere in France.
For the first time in the resort's history, both the Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park closed from 14 to 17 November 2015, as part of France's national days of mourning following the November 2015 Paris attacks.
In 2015, Euro Disney announced major renovations for 2015, 2016 and 2017 in preparation for the complex's 25th anniversary.
The Themed Entertainment Association considers Disneyland Paris to be the leading European resort in 2016 with a total of 13,37 million visitors. With two amusement parks and 5800 rooms, it is followed by the Europa-Park resort with 5,6 million visitors and 953 rooms. The Spanish complex PortAventura World completes the rank top three in Europe. It features two themed-parks and a third being under construction, as well as 2100 rooms.
2017–present: Recent Expansions
On 19 June 2017, the resort's operating company, Euro Disney S.C.A, was acquired by The Walt Disney Company, giving them full control of the resort. In December 2018, Natacha Rafalski took over as CEO. On 1 September 2017 the resort's second nature resort opened as Les Villages Nature Paris.
On 26 March 2017, the opening of Star Tours: The Adventures Continue - a new version of Star Tours - marked the start of Disneyland Paris' 25th anniversary. On 31 March, 2017, forums announced plans for Marvel attractions at Walt Disney Studios Park as well as renovations to the Disneyland Hotel and Disney's Hotel New York in the next ten years. On 14 May 2017, to celebrate Disneyland Paris' 25th anniversary, the park welcomed actors from Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales, for the film's European premiere.
On 27 February 2018, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger announced that company would invest €2 billion into the Disneyland Paris resort. The Walt Disney Studios Park will be expanded with three new areas between 2021 and 2025, based upon Marvel, Frozen and Star Wars.
In March 2018, a Disney Parks West regional division was formed with Disneyland Resort in California, Walt Disney World in Florida, and Disneyland Paris under Catherine Powell, outgoing Disneyland Paris president. This mirrors the Disney Parks East regional division consisting of Shanghai Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland and Walt Disney Attractions Japan and headed by Michael Colglazier. In September 2019, Powell exited her post as president of the Parks West division, with the division dissolving, and Disneyland Paris transferred to Disney Parks International, while the East region reverted to its prior name.
On 1 June 2019, Disneyland Paris sponsored the Magical Pride Party, an LGBTQ celebration. Previous similar events have taken place at the park since 2014, but were not officially sponsored by Disney.
Natacha Rafalski was promoted from chief financial officer to president for Disneyland Paris in December 2018. On 15 March 2020, in line with other Disney parks and resorts, Disneyland Paris was shut down due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park reopened to the public on 15 July with the rest of the resort. On 29 October 2020, the resort closed again due to a second nationwide lockdown. Disneyland Paris reopened on 17 June 2021.
In 2022,Disney's shares in Villages Nature Paris were sold.
In 2022, Disneyland Paris celebrated its 30th anniversary. In March 2022, in celebration of its 30th anniversary, Disneyland Paris marked its 30 years with a nightly drone show entitled 'Disney D-Light' in partnership with the Bordeaux-based company Dronisos. The visual spectacle was realized with the use of 200 drones. In fact, Disney D-Light won the Park World Excellence Awards' title of the 'Best Live Entertainment of the Year' in 2022.
In the summer of 2022, to mark the park's anniversary in France, Disneyland Paris inaugurated the Marvel Avengers Campus, an area dedicated to the superheroes of the Marvel Universe, with the presence of the actress Brie Larson who plays Captain Marvel.
At the Expo of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA), Disneyland Paris' 30th Anniversary Celebration was elected for the 'Most Creative Property-Wide Event,Amusement Parks and Attractions, Including Water Parks, Annual Attendance More than 1 million'.
Entertainment shows
On 8 July 2017, Disneyland hosted its first-ever EDM festival entitled Electroland, in celebration of Disneyland Paris' 25th anniversary. Steve Aoki, NERVO & Michael Calfan were the main highlights of the first edition. The second edition of the festival was held on 29 and 30 June 2018, which featured Afrojack, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Klingande, Robin Schulz, Bob Sinclair, Mosimann and Lovely Laura & Ben Santiago. The third edition was held over a span of 3 days from 5 July through to 7 July in 2019. The theme of the third edition was based upon Disney's movie The Lion King. The lineup included Steve Aoki, Nervo, Showtek, The Magician, Nicky Romero, Alesso, Armin Van Buuren, Nora En Pure etc. Disneyland also announced the fourth edition of the 3-day festival in 2020 starting from 4 July.
Disney Junior Dream Factory
In July 2021, Disneyland Paris launched a new show; Disney Junior Dream Factory, which lasts 20 minutes and whose theme is 'dare to believe in your dreams and they will come true'. The show includes characters like Mickey, Minnie and Timon. It also features characters like Disney Junior's rising stars Vampirina and Fancy Nancy Clancy, joined by the Dream Factory crew. To enable as many people as possible to take part in the story and the theme of the show, Disneyland Paris presents a French sign language version of the show every weekend.
Together
In July 2023, Disneyland Paris introduced its new show 'Together' which includes Dory, Coco, Buzz Lightyear and all the characters from Pixar films.[91] It is a cine-concert that features a live orchestra with actors on stage, music extracted from the movies and original compositions.
Regional impact
Disneyland Paris is considered to be Europe's leading tourist destination. It is also the driving force behind the urban and economic development of the Val-d’Europe conurbation.
Disneyland is also one of Europe's leading private tourist destinations with nearly 15 million visitors every year. After 25 years of its opening, Disneyland Paris recorded 320 million visits in 2017. The same year, it was reported that Disneyland Paris benefited the French economy by €66 billion in added value since its opening in 1992. It was also noted that Disneyland Paris contributed to the French economy through producing 56,000 direct and indirect jobs in 2017.
Besides, Disneyland Paris contributes to the sector of tourism in France. Indeed, tourists visiting Disneyland Paris generate 6% of tourism revenue in France and 17% of sales in the Ile-de-France region. In 2023, it was reported that more than 375 million visitors have been to Disneyland Paris with an average of 50% French and 50% foreign.
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
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“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
Louis Vuitton New Sydney Store VIP Party
Early today luxury brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store (Louis Vuitton George Street Maison) in Sydney, Australia, and this was followed up this evening with a VIP party with a healthy amount of celebrities and other VIP's on hand, along with about 30 media personnel covering the black carpet outside the building.
The Louis Vuitton George Street Maison, understood to have cost in the region of $10 million, will deliver three-storeys of men's and women's fashion, plus "personalised services".
The iconic French fashion brand enjoyed its VIP opening in Sydney earlier today with Australian actress Cate Blanchett getting a bit of media rub off from the event today.
Tonight many more celebs were present with the list including Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones guitarist), Melissa Doyle, Miranda Kerr, Erika Heynatz, Delta Goodrem, Isabel Lucas, Megan Gale, Laura Bingle, Heidi Middleton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Samantha Harris.
Company CEO Yves Carcelle was on hand at both events, and was Oceania CEO Philip Corne.
Mr Corne advised the new development had been a long time coming for the brand, which now has 10 stores across the nation.
"We wouldn't commit to the investment until we found the right space that allowed us to present the brand as we should," he said.
Corne understands that his brand is high end luxury and not for everyone: "People have worked hard and are rewarding themselves."
As Time magazine once said, it was the French who "practically invented the notion of luxury in the 17th century, and in the 18th century, when Marie Antoinette took up residence in Versailles, and added her own twist to the genre". After conducting a survey on global luxury, the magazine concluded Europeans regard "luxury as a means of expressing their individuality and style while placing high authenticity and pedigree".
In Sydney apparently there is a group of cashed up consumers who don't mind spending up on luxury goods.
A big congratulations to top brass Yves Carcelle, Philip Corne, Jean-Baptiste Debains and their team for putting on a great day and evening event.
Louis Vuitton cool and hip tips: we understand that the company sometimes creates very limited amounts of personalised goods. How about a guitar case for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, a surfboard and surfboard cover (what pro would actually use that) and even a skate-board and cover (good luck with Maroubra Beach Skatepark local boys). When LV talks "personalised services" and "personalised products", they aren't kidding.
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The Tornante Company, LLC is an American privately held investment firm founded and owned by former The Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner in 2005. Tornante invests in, acquires and operate media and entertainment companies.
When Eisner was bicycling around Italy, he saw a signpost that inspired the name Tornante for his company. Tornante means "hairpin turn" in Italian
The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car produced by Italian automaker Lamborghini between 1966 and 1973. The car pioneered the mid-engined two-seat layout, the standard for high-performance sports and supercars since. When released, it was the fastest production road car made.
The Miura was originally conceived by Lamborghini's engineering team, which designed the car in its spare time against the wishes of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, who preferred powerful yet sedate grand touring cars over the race car-derived machines produced by local rival Ferrari.
The Miura's rolling chassis was presented at the 1965 Turin auto show, and the prototype P400 debuted at the 1966 Geneva show. It received stellar receptions from showgoers and the motoring press alike, each impressed by Marcello Gandini's sleek styling and the car's revolutionary mid-engine design.
Lamborghini's flagship, the Miura received periodic updates and remained in production until 1973. A year later the extreme Countach entered the automaker's lineup, amid tumultuous financial times for the company.
DEVELOPMENT
During 1965, Lamborghini's three top engineers, Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani, and Bob Wallace put their own time into developing a prototype car known as the P400. The engineers envisioned a road car with racing pedigree – one which could win on the track and be driven on the road by enthusiasts. The three men worked on its design at night, hoping to convince company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini such a vehicle would neither be too expensive nor distract from the company's focus. When finally brought aboard, Lamborghini gave his engineers a free hand in the belief the P400 was a potentially valuable marketing tool, if nothing more.
The car featured a transversely-mounted mid-engine layout, a departure from previous Lamborghini cars. The V12 was also unusual in that it was effectively merged with the transmission and differential, reflecting a lack of space in the tightly-wrapped design. The rolling chassis was displayed at the Turin Salon in 1965. Impressed showgoers placed orders for the car despite the lack of a body to go over the chassis.
Bertone was placed in charge of styling the prototype, which was finished just days before its debut at the 1966 Geneva motor show. Curiously, none of the engineers had found time to check if the engine fit inside its compartment. Committed to showing the car, they decided to fill the engine bay with ballast and keep the hood locked throughout the show, as they had three years earlier for the début of the 350GTV. Sales head Sgarzi was forced to turn away members of the motoring press who wanted to see the P400's power plant. Despite this setback, the car was the highlight of the show, immediately boosting stylist Marcello Gandini's reputation.
The favourable reaction at Geneva meant the P400 was to go into production by the following year. The name "Miura", a famous type of fighting bull, was chosen, and featured in the company's newly created badge. The car gained the worldwide attention of automotive enthusiasts when it was chosen for the opening sequence of the original 1969 version of The Italian Job. In press interviews of the time Ferruccio Lamborghini was reticent about his precise birth date, but stressed that he was born under the star sign Taurus the bull.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
P400
The earliest model of the Miura was known as the P400 (for Posteriore 4 litri). It was powered by a version of the 3.9 L Lamborghini V12 engine used in the 400GT at the time. The engine was mounted transversely and produced 350 PS (257 kW; 345 hp). Exactly 275 P400 were produced between 1966 and 1969 - a success for Lamborghini despite its then-steep price of US$20,000 (equivalent to $146,113 in 2015).
Taking a cue from the Morris Mini, Lamborghini formed the engine and gearbox in one casting. Its shared lubrication continued until the last 96 SVs, when the case was split to allow the correct oils to be used for each element.
An unconfirmed claim holds the first 125 Miuras were built of 0.9 mm steel and are therefore lighter than later cars. All cars had steel frames and doors, with aluminum front and rear skinned body sections. When leaving the factory they were originally fitted with Pirelli Cinturato 205VR15 tyres (CN72).
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The Miura won the prestigious Gran Turismo Trophy at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and has been re-created for use in the Gran Turismo 5 video game.
P400S
The P400S Miura, also known as the Miura S, made its introduction at the Turin Motorshow in November 1968, where the original chassis had been introduced three years earlier. It was slightly revised from the P400, with the addition of power windows, bright chrome trim around external windows and headlights, new overhead inline console with new rocker switches, engine intake manifolds made 2 mm larger, different camshaft profiles, and notched trunk end panels (allowing for slightly more luggage space). Engine changes were reportedly good for an additional 20 PS (15 kW; 20 hp).
Other revisions were limited to creature comforts, such as a locking glovebox lid, a reversed position of the cigarette lighter and windshield wiper switch, and single release handles for front and rear body sections. Other interior improvements included the addition of power windows and optional air conditioning, available for US$800. About 338 P400S Miura were produced between December 1968 and March 1971. One S #4407 was owned by Frank Sinatra. Miles Davis also owned one, which he crashed in October 1972 under the influence of cocaine, breaking both ankles. Eddie Van Halen owns one and can be heard revving it up during the bridge in the song Panama
P400SV
The last and most famous Miura, the P400SV or Miura SV featured different cam timing and altered carburetors. These gave the engine an additional 15 PS (11 kW; 15 hp), to 385 PS (283 kW; 380 hp). The last 96 SV engines had a split sump. The gearbox now had its lubrication system separate from the engine, which allowed the use of the appropriate types of oil for the gearbox and the engine. This also alleviated concerns that metal shavings from the gearbox could travel into the engine with disastrous and expensive results and made the application of an optional limited-slip differential far easier.
The SV can be distinguished from its predecessors from its lack of "eyelashes" around the headlamps, wider rear fenders to accommodate the new 230 mm rear wheels and Pirelli Cinturato tires, and different taillights. 150 SVs were produced.
There was a misprint in the SV owners manual indicating bigger intake valves in English size (but correct size in metric). The intake and exhaust valves in all 4 liter V12 Lamborghini remained the same throughout all models. This intake size misprint carried forward into Espada 400GT and Countach LP 400/LP 400S owners manuals as well.
P400 JOTA
In 1970, Lamborghini development driver Bob Wallace created a test mule that would conform to the FIA's Appendix J racing regulations. The car was appropriately named the Miura Jota (the pronunciation of the letter 'J' in Spanish). Wallace made extensive modifications to the standard Miura chassis and engine. Weight reductions included replacing steel chassis components and body panels with the lightweight aluminium alloy Avional and replacing side windows with plastic, with the resulting car weighing approximately 800 pounds less than a production Miura. A front spoiler was added and the headlights were replaced with fixed, faired-in units. Wallace substituted two smaller, sill-mounted fuel tanks for the single larger original unit. The suspension was reworked and wider (9" in the front, 12" in the rear), lightweight wheels were fitted. The engine was modified to produce 418-440 bhp at 8800 rpm, with an increased compression ratio, altered cams, electronic ignition, dry-sump lubrication, and less restrictive exhaust system. This single example was eventually sold to a private buyer after extensive testing. In April 1971, the car crashed on the yet-unopened ring road around the city of Brescia, and burned to the ground.
It was once widely believed that the Jota had the chassis number of #5084 (a number well out of sequence for the date in question), it has been clarified by Miura expert Joe Sackey in his book The Lamborghini Miura Bible that this is not the case, and that #5084 is in fact a factory modified SV to SVJ spec. This fact has also been confirmed in the massive and long running Miura thread on the lamborghini section of www.ferrarichat.com
A recreation of the Jota was later undertaken by Chris Lawrence of Wymondham Engineering for Lamborghini owner Piet Pulford from the United Kingdom on chassis #3033.
P400 SV/J
There are six examples of the Miura SV/J known to be built by the factory while the Miura was still in production, one was built new (chassis #5090) and five were converted from existing SVs (chassis #4934, #4860, #4892, #4990 & #5084)
One of these cars, chassis #4934, was built for the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah stored this car under armed guard with another SV in Royal Palace in Tehran. After he fled the country during the Iranian Revolution, his cars were seized by the Iranian government. The SV/J was sold into Dubai in 1995. In 1997 this car was sold in a Brooks auction to Nicolas Cage, at US$490,000, becoming the model's highest ever price at auction. Cage sold the car in 2002. Higher prices have been reached several times since then, including by SVJ #4892 selling for over $1.9M
Of the seven known original cars #4892 is a recent addition to the list of known genuine SVJ's with factory documentation now having come to light.
An eighth SV/J was built at the Lamborghini factory between 1983 and 1987 from an unused Miura S chassis. This was made for Jean Claude Mimran, one of the Mimran brothers, the then owner of Lamborghini. Most experts do not recognize this as an "official" SVJ due to it being converted (albeit done by the factory) long after the Miura went out of production.
Further Miuras were subsequently upgraded to SVJ specifications (trying to imitate the real factory SVJs) by various garages of Switzerland, USA and Japan.
ROADSTER
Another one-off, the Miura Roadster (actually more of a targa-model, but without any removable roof) was built by Bertone as a show car. Based on a P400, it was first shown at the 1968 Brussels Auto Show. After having been exhibited at several auto salons the car was sold to the International Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO) who turned it into a display-vehicle showcasing the possibilities of using zinc alloys in cars. The car was named the ZN75. A few other Miuras have had their tops removed, but this Bertone Miura Roadster was the only factory open-top Miura.
In 2006 the ZN75 was purchased by New York City real estate developer Adam Gordon. Gordon had Bobileff Motorcars in San Diego, California return the car to its original Bertone Roadster form. The restored car was first shown in August 2008 at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
The one of a kind Miura Roadster was shown at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in 2013.
P400 SVJ SPIDER
This one-off example of the Miura was displayed at the 1981 Geneva Motor Show with other new Lamborghini models (Jalpa and LM002) shortly after new company CEO Patrick Mimran took over the factory although it was never a factory authorised model r modifications. Finished in pearl white, the SVJ Spider was the formerly yellow Miura S presented at the 1981 Geneva Motor Show, and uses chassis #4808 Equipped with wide wheels and a rear wing reflecting the marque's revival, it was wrongly considered by some as a prototype for a possible limited series of Miura Spider whereas in fact it was simply a one off show car constructed on behalf by the Swiss Lamborghini Importer Lambomotor AG (and as such is not an official factory modification or indeed has any link to the factory bar its original 1970 build).
Subsequently, bought by Swiss Lamborghini collector Jean Wicki, the car had its rear wing and chin spoiler removed and was painted silver, bringing the car's style closer to the Berlinetta SVJ. Lamborghini specialist Autodrome (France) purchased the car from Wicki and restored its bodywork and upholstery in partnership with Carrosserie Lecoq (Paris). Painted traditional Miura lime green, the car was eventually sold to a Parisian collector. The car has stiffness issues and does not drive that well (as stated by the world-renowned Miura expert Joe Sackey), it's also not that well received by the general Miura cogniscenti who post on VLG and also on the worlds longest running and largest Miura debate which is on fchat. Other than private modifications, there are only two "open" Miuras, officially presented in International Motor shows: the Bertone Miura Roadster, exhibited on Bertone's own stand at Bruxelles in 1968, and this non factory example, shown on the Lamborghini stand at the Geneva Motor show in 1981.
2006 MIURA CONCEPT
A Miura concept car was presented at the American Museum of Television & Radio on January 5, 2006 alongside the Los Angeles Auto Show, though it was not presented at the show itself. Instead, the Miura concept car officially debuted at the North American International Auto Show two weeks later. It was the first design to be penned by Lamborghini design chief, Walter de'Silva, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1966 Geneva introduction of the original Miura.
Lamborghini president and CEO Stefan Winkelmann denied that the concept would mark the Miura's return to production, saying “The Miura was a celebration of our history, but Lamborghini is about the future. Retro design is not what we are here for. So we won’t do the Miura.”
2016 Lamborghini Special edition Aventador Miura Homage
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lamborghini Miura – a forerunner of all V12 Lamborghini super sports cars – Lamborghini has unveiled the Aventador Miura Homage. The special edition car has been created by the company’s Ad Personam customization division.
WIKIPEDIA
The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car produced by Italian automaker Lamborghini between 1966 and 1973. The car pioneered the mid-engined two-seat layout, the standard for high-performance sports and supercars since. When released, it was the fastest production road car made.
The Miura was originally conceived by Lamborghini's engineering team, which designed the car in its spare time against the wishes of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, who preferred powerful yet sedate grand touring cars over the race car-derived machines produced by local rival Ferrari.
The Miura's rolling chassis was presented at the 1965 Turin auto show, and the prototype P400 debuted at the 1966 Geneva show. It received stellar receptions from showgoers and the motoring press alike, each impressed by Marcello Gandini's sleek styling and the car's revolutionary mid-engine design.
Lamborghini's flagship, the Miura received periodic updates and remained in production until 1973. A year later the extreme Countach entered the automaker's lineup, amid tumultuous financial times for the company.
DEVELOPMENT
During 1965, Lamborghini's three top engineers, Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani, and Bob Wallace put their own time into developing a prototype car known as the P400. The engineers envisioned a road car with racing pedigree – one which could win on the track and be driven on the road by enthusiasts. The three men worked on its design at night, hoping to convince company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini such a vehicle would neither be too expensive nor distract from the company's focus. When finally brought aboard, Lamborghini gave his engineers a free hand in the belief the P400 was a potentially valuable marketing tool, if nothing more.
The car featured a transversely-mounted mid-engine layout, a departure from previous Lamborghini cars. The V12 was also unusual in that it was effectively merged with the transmission and differential, reflecting a lack of space in the tightly-wrapped design. The rolling chassis was displayed at the Turin Salon in 1965. Impressed showgoers placed orders for the car despite the lack of a body to go over the chassis.
Bertone was placed in charge of styling the prototype, which was finished just days before its debut at the 1966 Geneva motor show. Curiously, none of the engineers had found time to check if the engine fit inside its compartment. Committed to showing the car, they decided to fill the engine bay with ballast and keep the hood locked throughout the show, as they had three years earlier for the début of the 350GTV. Sales head Sgarzi was forced to turn away members of the motoring press who wanted to see the P400's power plant. Despite this setback, the car was the highlight of the show, immediately boosting stylist Marcello Gandini's reputation.
The favourable reaction at Geneva meant the P400 was to go into production by the following year. The name "Miura", a famous type of fighting bull, was chosen, and featured in the company's newly created badge. The car gained the worldwide attention of automotive enthusiasts when it was chosen for the opening sequence of the original 1969 version of The Italian Job. In press interviews of the time Ferruccio Lamborghini was reticent about his precise birth date, but stressed that he was born under the star sign Taurus the bull.
Production history
P400
The earliest model of the Miura was known as the P400 (for Posteriore 4 litri). It was powered by a version of the 3.9 L Lamborghini V12 engine used in the 400GT at the time. The engine was mounted transversely and produced 350 PS (257 kW; 345 hp). Exactly 275 P400 were produced between 1966 and 1969 - a success for Lamborghini despite its then-steep price of US$20,000 (equivalent to $146,113 in 2015).
Taking a cue from the Morris Mini, Lamborghini formed the engine and gearbox in one casting. Its shared lubrication continued until the last 96 SVs, when the case was split to allow the correct oils to be used for each element.
An unconfirmed claim holds the first 125 Miuras were built of 0.9 mm steel and are therefore lighter than later cars. All cars had steel frames and doors, with aluminum front and rear skinned body sections. When leaving the factory they were originally fitted with Pirelli Cinturato 205VR15 tyres (CN72).
AWARDS
The Miura won the prestigious Gran Turismo Trophy at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and has been re-created for use in the Gran Turismo 5 video game.
P400S
The P400S Miura, also known as the Miura S, made its introduction at the Turin Motorshow in November 1968, where the original chassis had been introduced three years earlier. It was slightly revised from the P400, with the addition of power windows, bright chrome trim around external windows and headlights, new overhead inline console with new rocker switches, engine intake manifolds made 2 mm larger, different camshaft profiles, and notched trunk end panels (allowing for slightly more luggage space). Engine changes were reportedly good for an additional 20 PS (15 kW; 20 hp).
Other revisions were limited to creature comforts, such as a locking glovebox lid, a reversed position of the cigarette lighter and windshield wiper switch, and single release handles for front and rear body sections. Other interior improvements included the addition of power windows and optional air conditioning, available for US$800. About 338 P400S Miura were produced between December 1968 and March 1971. One S #4407 was owned by Frank Sinatra. Miles Davis also owned one, which he crashed in October 1972 under the influence of cocaine, breaking both ankles. Eddie Van Halen owns one and can be heard revving it up during the bridge in the song Panama
P400SV
The last and most famous Miura, the P400SV or Miura SV featured different cam timing and altered carburetors. These gave the engine an additional 15 PS (11 kW; 15 hp), to 385 PS (283 kW; 380 hp). The last 96 SV engines had a split sump. The gearbox now had its lubrication system separate from the engine, which allowed the use of the appropriate types of oil for the gearbox and the engine. This also alleviated concerns that metal shavings from the gearbox could travel into the engine with disastrous and expensive results and made the application of an optional limited-slip differential far easier.
The SV can be distinguished from its predecessors from its lack of "eyelashes" around the headlamps, wider rear fenders to accommodate the new 230 mm rear wheels and Pirelli Cinturato tires, and different taillights. 150 SVs were produced.
There was a misprint in the SV owners manual indicating bigger intake valves in English size (but correct size in metric). The intake and exhaust valves in all 4 liter V12 Lamborghini remained the same throughout all models. This intake size misprint carried forward into Espada 400GT and Countach LP 400/LP 400S owners manuals as well.
P400 JOTA
In 1970, Lamborghini development driver Bob Wallace created a test mule that would conform to the FIA's Appendix J racing regulations. The car was appropriately named the Miura Jota (the pronunciation of the letter 'J' in Spanish). Wallace made extensive modifications to the standard Miura chassis and engine. Weight reductions included replacing steel chassis components and body panels with the lightweight aluminium alloy Avional and replacing side windows with plastic, with the resulting car weighing approximately 800 pounds less than a production Miura. A front spoiler was added and the headlights were replaced with fixed, faired-in units. Wallace substituted two smaller, sill-mounted fuel tanks for the single larger original unit. The suspension was reworked and wider (9" in the front, 12" in the rear), lightweight wheels were fitted. The engine was modified to produce 418-440 bhp at 8800 rpm, with an increased compression ratio, altered cams, electronic ignition, dry-sump lubrication, and less restrictive exhaust system. This single example was eventually sold to a private buyer after extensive testing. In April 1971, the car crashed on the yet-unopened ring road around the city of Brescia, and burned to the ground.
It was once widely believed that the Jota had the chassis number of #5084 (a number well out of sequence for the date in question), it has been clarified by Miura expert Joe Sackey in his book The Lamborghini Miura Bible that this is not the case, and that #5084 is in fact a factory modified SV to SVJ spec. This fact has also been confirmed in the massive and long running Miura thread on the lamborghini section of www.ferrarichat.com
A recreation of the Jota was later undertaken by Chris Lawrence of Wymondham Engineering for Lamborghini owner Piet Pulford from the United Kingdom on chassis #3033.
P400 SV/J
There are six examples of the Miura SV/J known to be built by the factory while the Miura was still in production, one was built new (chassis #5090) and five were converted from existing SVs (chassis #4934, #4860, #4892, #4990 & #5084)
One of these cars, chassis #4934, was built for the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah stored this car under armed guard with another SV in Royal Palace in Tehran. After he fled the country during the Iranian Revolution, his cars were seized by the Iranian government. The SV/J was sold into Dubai in 1995. In 1997 this car was sold in a Brooks auction to Nicolas Cage, at US$490,000, becoming the model's highest ever price at auction. Cage sold the car in 2002. Higher prices have been reached several times since then, including by SVJ #4892 selling for over $1.9M
Of the seven known original cars #4892 is a recent addition to the list of known genuine SVJ's with factory documentation now having come to light.
An eighth SV/J was built at the Lamborghini factory between 1983 and 1987 from an unused Miura S chassis. This was made for Jean Claude Mimran, one of the Mimran brothers, the then owner of Lamborghini. Most experts do not recognize this as an "official" SVJ due to it being converted (albeit done by the factory) long after the Miura went out of production.
Further Miuras were subsequently upgraded to SVJ specifications (trying to imitate the real factory SVJs) by various garages of Switzerland, USA and Japan.
ROADSTER
Another one-off, the Miura Roadster (actually more of a targa-model, but without any removable roof) was built by Bertone as a show car. Based on a P400, it was first shown at the 1968 Brussels Auto Show. After having been exhibited at several auto salons the car was sold to the International Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO) who turned it into a display-vehicle showcasing the possibilities of using zinc alloys in cars. The car was named the ZN75. A few other Miuras have had their tops removed, but this Bertone Miura Roadster was the only factory open-top Miura.
In 2006 the ZN75 was purchased by New York City real estate developer Adam Gordon. Gordon had Bobileff Motorcars in San Diego, California return the car to its original Bertone Roadster form. The restored car was first shown in August 2008 at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
The one of a kind Miura Roadster was shown at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in 2013.
P400 SVJ SPIDER
This one-off example of the Miura was displayed at the 1981 Geneva Motor Show with other new Lamborghini models (Jalpa and LM002) shortly after new company CEO Patrick Mimran took over the factory although it was never a factory authorised model r modifications. Finished in pearl white, the SVJ Spider was the formerly yellow Miura S presented at the 1981 Geneva Motor Show, and uses chassis #4808 Equipped with wide wheels and a rear wing reflecting the marque's revival, it was wrongly considered by some as a prototype for a possible limited series of Miura Spider whereas in fact it was simply a one off show car constructed on behalf by the Swiss Lamborghini Importer Lambomotor AG (and as such is not an official factory modification or indeed has any link to the factory bar its original 1970 build).
Subsequently, bought by Swiss Lamborghini collector Jean Wicki, the car had its rear wing and chin spoiler removed and was painted silver, bringing the car's style closer to the Berlinetta SVJ. Lamborghini specialist Autodrome (France) purchased the car from Wicki and restored its bodywork and upholstery in partnership with Carrosserie Lecoq (Paris). Painted traditional Miura lime green, the car was eventually sold to a Parisian collector. The car has stiffness issues and does not drive that well (as stated by the world-renowned Miura expert Joe Sackey), it's also not that well received by the general Miura cogniscenti who post on VLG and also on the worlds longest running and largest Miura debate which is on fchat. Other than private modifications, there are only two "open" Miuras, officially presented in International Motor shows: the Bertone Miura Roadster, exhibited on Bertone's own stand at Bruxelles in 1968, and this non factory example, shown on the Lamborghini stand at the Geneva Motor show in 1981.
2006 MIURA CONCEPT
A Miura concept car was presented at the American Museum of Television & Radio on January 5, 2006 alongside the Los Angeles Auto Show, though it was not presented at the show itself. Instead, the Miura concept car officially debuted at the North American International Auto Show two weeks later. It was the first design to be penned by Lamborghini design chief, Walter de'Silva, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1966 Geneva introduction of the original Miura.
Lamborghini president and CEO Stefan Winkelmann denied that the concept would mark the Miura's return to production, saying “The Miura was a celebration of our history, but Lamborghini is about the future. Retro design is not what we are here for. So we won’t do the Miura.”
2016 Lamborghini Special edition Aventador Miura Homage
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lamborghini Miura – a forerunner of all V12 Lamborghini super sports cars – Lamborghini has unveiled the Aventador Miura Homage. The special edition car has been created by the company’s Ad Personam customization division.
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Speaking at Venture Alpha today, Peter was especially engaging:
“Developed economies need to innovate and create new things to avoid stagnation. China can copy the West and benefit from globalization. There is no invention needed to raise their living standard.”
“All happy companies are different. All unhappy companies are alike, mired in their essential sameness. For a sense of this, start a restaurant in San Francisco. It’s no way to make money. Competition and capitalism are antonyms. A newspaper headline paraphrased me to say ‘competition is for losers.’”
“We like founder-led companies like Google and Amazon. Apple needed its founder back. Versus all those politicians that masquerade as public company CEOs.”
“Most of the NASDAQ companies are bets against technology. Microsoft is a bet against Linux; IBM is a bet that everything stays the same; Oracle is a bet against the cloud, HP too. They are short technology, short change, short disruption. Microsoft is a nihilistic bet against tech innovation. Apple is now a bet against innovation in the smart phone. That might be OK if the phone is in its final form, and we can invest in a brand like Coke and Pepsi. Apple made that mistake before when they hired Sculley from Pepsi.”
“When a company pays dividends or buys back shares it is a complete admission of failure as a tech company. And so there is a long lag to when people admit they are no longer a tech company. Google will eventually cave and buy back its own shares.”
“Universities are like the Catholic church 500 years ago. The professorial clan is like the priestly clan extorting more and more, asking for indulgences. They tell us there is no alternative; get a diploma or go to hell. Go to Yale or go to jail. My message is like the 16th century reformers. It’s a scary message. You have to figure out how to save yourself. No one will do it for you.”
“I am skeptical of everything that can be classified as a category: educational software, healthcare IT, mobile computing, SaaS, the cloud, big data. If a company says they are a cloud company, they are insufficiently differentiated. I like the ones that don’t fit narratives.”
How about Facebook?
“I invested in Friendster first. They had overblown photos of the CEO on the wall like North Korea. Its failure was very idiosyncratic, so it actually made me more of a fan of social networking.”
“VCs overvalue things that they use. Uber is overrated because VCs like to drive around in town cars.”
“Engineers are generally bad at business. Scientists are catastrophic. They have all kinds of fantastical delusions about how the world works. If they start a consumer internet company, they may be able to eventually figure out the business later. For hardware companies based on science, figuring out the business is really, really critical.”
“I am not a fan of culture as separate from what a company does. Bean bag and Aeron chairs are symptoms of a bad culture. “
What is your greatest ambition before you die?
“I like what I am doing and I want to do it for a long time. I want to make progress on the anti-aging and longevity front. It’s a massively understudied phenomenon. Most people deal with it with acceptance or denial. Extreme optimism or pessimism lead to the same point; you don’t do anything.”
And Q&A afterward:
“People talk about inequality to avoid talking about stagnation. You can’t fix inequality by taxing the rich. If you took all of the money from the billionaires, it would not pay off the national debt. And the market would crash if you did.”
Louis Vuitton New Sydney Store VIP Party
Early today luxury brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store (Louis Vuitton George Street Maison) in Sydney, Australia, and this was followed up this evening with a VIP party with a healthy amount of celebrities and other VIP's on hand, along with about 30 media personnel covering the black carpet outside the building.
The Louis Vuitton George Street Maison, understood to have cost in the region of $10 million, will deliver three-storeys of men's and women's fashion, plus "personalised services".
The iconic French fashion brand enjoyed its VIP opening in Sydney earlier today with Australian actress Cate Blanchett getting a bit of media rub off from the event today.
Tonight many more celebs were present with the list including Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones guitarist), Melissa Doyle, Miranda Kerr, Erika Heynatz, Delta Goodrem, Isabel Lucas, Megan Gale, Laura Bingle, Heidi Middleton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Samantha Harris.
Company CEO Yves Carcelle was on hand at both events, and was Oceania CEO Philip Corne.
Mr Corne advised the new development had been a long time coming for the brand, which now has 10 stores across the nation.
"We wouldn't commit to the investment until we found the right space that allowed us to present the brand as we should," he said.
Corne understands that his brand is high end luxury and not for everyone: "People have worked hard and are rewarding themselves."
As Time magazine once said, it was the French who "practically invented the notion of luxury in the 17th century, and in the 18th century, when Marie Antoinette took up residence in Versailles, and added her own twist to the genre". After conducting a survey on global luxury, the magazine concluded Europeans regard "luxury as a means of expressing their individuality and style while placing high authenticity and pedigree".
In Sydney apparently there is a group of cashed up consumers who don't mind spending up on luxury goods.
A big congratulations to top brass Yves Carcelle, Philip Corne, Jean-Baptiste Debains and their team for putting on a great day and evening event.
Louis Vuitton cool and hip tips: we understand that the company sometimes creates very limited amounts of personalised goods. How about a guitar case for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, a surfboard and surfboard cover (what pro would actually use that) and even a skate-board and cover (good luck with Maroubra Beach Skatepark local boys). When LV talks "personalised services" and "personalised products", they aren't kidding.
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This is the first big Iso Rivolta. After the Isetta, motorbikes and household goods company CEO Renzo Rivolta spotlighted his name to kick-start a great adventure. This car had a very quiet life as it was in the same family from its purchase in 1965 to 2015. The present owner did the restoration.
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June 2019
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
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“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car produced by Italian automaker Lamborghini between 1966 and 1973. The car pioneered the mid-engined two-seat layout, the standard for high-performance sports and supercars since. When released, it was the fastest production road car made.
The Miura was originally conceived by Lamborghini's engineering team, which designed the car in its spare time against the wishes of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, who preferred powerful yet sedate grand touring cars over the race car-derived machines produced by local rival Ferrari.
The Miura's rolling chassis was presented at the 1965 Turin auto show, and the prototype P400 debuted at the 1966 Geneva show. It received stellar receptions from showgoers and the motoring press alike, each impressed by Marcello Gandini's sleek styling and the car's revolutionary mid-engine design.
Lamborghini's flagship, the Miura received periodic updates and remained in production until 1973. A year later the extreme Countach entered the automaker's lineup, amid tumultuous financial times for the company.
DEVELOPMENT
During 1965, Lamborghini's three top engineers, Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani, and Bob Wallace put their own time into developing a prototype car known as the P400. The engineers envisioned a road car with racing pedigree – one which could win on the track and be driven on the road by enthusiasts. The three men worked on its design at night, hoping to convince company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini such a vehicle would neither be too expensive nor distract from the company's focus. When finally brought aboard, Lamborghini gave his engineers a free hand in the belief the P400 was a potentially valuable marketing tool, if nothing more.
The car featured a transversely-mounted mid-engine layout, a departure from previous Lamborghini cars. The V12 was also unusual in that it was effectively merged with the transmission and differential, reflecting a lack of space in the tightly-wrapped design. The rolling chassis was displayed at the Turin Salon in 1965. Impressed showgoers placed orders for the car despite the lack of a body to go over the chassis.
Bertone was placed in charge of styling the prototype, which was finished just days before its debut at the 1966 Geneva motor show. Curiously, none of the engineers had found time to check if the engine fit inside its compartment. Committed to showing the car, they decided to fill the engine bay with ballast and keep the hood locked throughout the show, as they had three years earlier for the début of the 350GTV. Sales head Sgarzi was forced to turn away members of the motoring press who wanted to see the P400's power plant. Despite this setback, the car was the highlight of the show, immediately boosting stylist Marcello Gandini's reputation.
The favourable reaction at Geneva meant the P400 was to go into production by the following year. The name "Miura", a famous type of fighting bull, was chosen, and featured in the company's newly created badge. The car gained the worldwide attention of automotive enthusiasts when it was chosen for the opening sequence of the original 1969 version of The Italian Job. In press interviews of the time Ferruccio Lamborghini was reticent about his precise birth date, but stressed that he was born under the star sign Taurus the bull.
Production history
P400
The earliest model of the Miura was known as the P400 (for Posteriore 4 litri). It was powered by a version of the 3.9 L Lamborghini V12 engine used in the 400GT at the time. The engine was mounted transversely and produced 350 PS (257 kW; 345 hp). Exactly 275 P400 were produced between 1966 and 1969 - a success for Lamborghini despite its then-steep price of US$20,000 (equivalent to $146,113 in 2015).
Taking a cue from the Morris Mini, Lamborghini formed the engine and gearbox in one casting. Its shared lubrication continued until the last 96 SVs, when the case was split to allow the correct oils to be used for each element.
An unconfirmed claim holds the first 125 Miuras were built of 0.9 mm steel and are therefore lighter than later cars. All cars had steel frames and doors, with aluminum front and rear skinned body sections. When leaving the factory they were originally fitted with Pirelli Cinturato 205VR15 tyres (CN72).
AWARDS
The Miura won the prestigious Gran Turismo Trophy at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and has been re-created for use in the Gran Turismo 5 video game.
P400S
The P400S Miura, also known as the Miura S, made its introduction at the Turin Motorshow in November 1968, where the original chassis had been introduced three years earlier. It was slightly revised from the P400, with the addition of power windows, bright chrome trim around external windows and headlights, new overhead inline console with new rocker switches, engine intake manifolds made 2 mm larger, different camshaft profiles, and notched trunk end panels (allowing for slightly more luggage space). Engine changes were reportedly good for an additional 20 PS (15 kW; 20 hp).
Other revisions were limited to creature comforts, such as a locking glovebox lid, a reversed position of the cigarette lighter and windshield wiper switch, and single release handles for front and rear body sections. Other interior improvements included the addition of power windows and optional air conditioning, available for US$800. About 338 P400S Miura were produced between December 1968 and March 1971. One S #4407 was owned by Frank Sinatra. Miles Davis also owned one, which he crashed in October 1972 under the influence of cocaine, breaking both ankles. Eddie Van Halen owns one and can be heard revving it up during the bridge in the song Panama
P400SV
The last and most famous Miura, the P400SV or Miura SV featured different cam timing and altered carburetors. These gave the engine an additional 15 PS (11 kW; 15 hp), to 385 PS (283 kW; 380 hp). The last 96 SV engines had a split sump. The gearbox now had its lubrication system separate from the engine, which allowed the use of the appropriate types of oil for the gearbox and the engine. This also alleviated concerns that metal shavings from the gearbox could travel into the engine with disastrous and expensive results and made the application of an optional limited-slip differential far easier.
The SV can be distinguished from its predecessors from its lack of "eyelashes" around the headlamps, wider rear fenders to accommodate the new 230 mm rear wheels and Pirelli Cinturato tires, and different taillights. 150 SVs were produced.
There was a misprint in the SV owners manual indicating bigger intake valves in English size (but correct size in metric). The intake and exhaust valves in all 4 liter V12 Lamborghini remained the same throughout all models. This intake size misprint carried forward into Espada 400GT and Countach LP 400/LP 400S owners manuals as well.
P400 JOTA
In 1970, Lamborghini development driver Bob Wallace created a test mule that would conform to the FIA's Appendix J racing regulations. The car was appropriately named the Miura Jota (the pronunciation of the letter 'J' in Spanish). Wallace made extensive modifications to the standard Miura chassis and engine. Weight reductions included replacing steel chassis components and body panels with the lightweight aluminium alloy Avional and replacing side windows with plastic, with the resulting car weighing approximately 800 pounds less than a production Miura. A front spoiler was added and the headlights were replaced with fixed, faired-in units. Wallace substituted two smaller, sill-mounted fuel tanks for the single larger original unit. The suspension was reworked and wider (9" in the front, 12" in the rear), lightweight wheels were fitted. The engine was modified to produce 418-440 bhp at 8800 rpm, with an increased compression ratio, altered cams, electronic ignition, dry-sump lubrication, and less restrictive exhaust system. This single example was eventually sold to a private buyer after extensive testing. In April 1971, the car crashed on the yet-unopened ring road around the city of Brescia, and burned to the ground.
It was once widely believed that the Jota had the chassis number of #5084 (a number well out of sequence for the date in question), it has been clarified by Miura expert Joe Sackey in his book The Lamborghini Miura Bible that this is not the case, and that #5084 is in fact a factory modified SV to SVJ spec. This fact has also been confirmed in the massive and long running Miura thread on the lamborghini section of www.ferrarichat.com
A recreation of the Jota was later undertaken by Chris Lawrence of Wymondham Engineering for Lamborghini owner Piet Pulford from the United Kingdom on chassis #3033.
P400 SV/J
There are six examples of the Miura SV/J known to be built by the factory while the Miura was still in production, one was built new (chassis #5090) and five were converted from existing SVs (chassis #4934, #4860, #4892, #4990 & #5084)
One of these cars, chassis #4934, was built for the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah stored this car under armed guard with another SV in Royal Palace in Tehran. After he fled the country during the Iranian Revolution, his cars were seized by the Iranian government. The SV/J was sold into Dubai in 1995. In 1997 this car was sold in a Brooks auction to Nicolas Cage, at US$490,000, becoming the model's highest ever price at auction. Cage sold the car in 2002. Higher prices have been reached several times since then, including by SVJ #4892 selling for over $1.9M
Of the seven known original cars #4892 is a recent addition to the list of known genuine SVJ's with factory documentation now having come to light.
An eighth SV/J was built at the Lamborghini factory between 1983 and 1987 from an unused Miura S chassis. This was made for Jean Claude Mimran, one of the Mimran brothers, the then owner of Lamborghini. Most experts do not recognize this as an "official" SVJ due to it being converted (albeit done by the factory) long after the Miura went out of production.
Further Miuras were subsequently upgraded to SVJ specifications (trying to imitate the real factory SVJs) by various garages of Switzerland, USA and Japan.
ROADSTER
Another one-off, the Miura Roadster (actually more of a targa-model, but without any removable roof) was built by Bertone as a show car. Based on a P400, it was first shown at the 1968 Brussels Auto Show. After having been exhibited at several auto salons the car was sold to the International Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO) who turned it into a display-vehicle showcasing the possibilities of using zinc alloys in cars. The car was named the ZN75. A few other Miuras have had their tops removed, but this Bertone Miura Roadster was the only factory open-top Miura.
In 2006 the ZN75 was purchased by New York City real estate developer Adam Gordon. Gordon had Bobileff Motorcars in San Diego, California return the car to its original Bertone Roadster form. The restored car was first shown in August 2008 at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
The one of a kind Miura Roadster was shown at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in 2013.
P400 SVJ SPIDER
This one-off example of the Miura was displayed at the 1981 Geneva Motor Show with other new Lamborghini models (Jalpa and LM002) shortly after new company CEO Patrick Mimran took over the factory although it was never a factory authorised model r modifications. Finished in pearl white, the SVJ Spider was the formerly yellow Miura S presented at the 1981 Geneva Motor Show, and uses chassis #4808 Equipped with wide wheels and a rear wing reflecting the marque's revival, it was wrongly considered by some as a prototype for a possible limited series of Miura Spider whereas in fact it was simply a one off show car constructed on behalf by the Swiss Lamborghini Importer Lambomotor AG (and as such is not an official factory modification or indeed has any link to the factory bar its original 1970 build).
Subsequently, bought by Swiss Lamborghini collector Jean Wicki, the car had its rear wing and chin spoiler removed and was painted silver, bringing the car's style closer to the Berlinetta SVJ. Lamborghini specialist Autodrome (France) purchased the car from Wicki and restored its bodywork and upholstery in partnership with Carrosserie Lecoq (Paris). Painted traditional Miura lime green, the car was eventually sold to a Parisian collector. The car has stiffness issues and does not drive that well (as stated by the world-renowned Miura expert Joe Sackey), it's also not that well received by the general Miura cogniscenti who post on VLG and also on the worlds longest running and largest Miura debate which is on fchat. Other than private modifications, there are only two "open" Miuras, officially presented in International Motor shows: the Bertone Miura Roadster, exhibited on Bertone's own stand at Bruxelles in 1968, and this non factory example, shown on the Lamborghini stand at the Geneva Motor show in 1981.
2006 MIURA CONCEPT
A Miura concept car was presented at the American Museum of Television & Radio on January 5, 2006 alongside the Los Angeles Auto Show, though it was not presented at the show itself. Instead, the Miura concept car officially debuted at the North American International Auto Show two weeks later. It was the first design to be penned by Lamborghini design chief, Walter de'Silva, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1966 Geneva introduction of the original Miura.
Lamborghini president and CEO Stefan Winkelmann denied that the concept would mark the Miura's return to production, saying “The Miura was a celebration of our history, but Lamborghini is about the future. Retro design is not what we are here for. So we won’t do the Miura.”
2016 Lamborghini Special edition Aventador Miura Homage
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lamborghini Miura – a forerunner of all V12 Lamborghini super sports cars – Lamborghini has unveiled the Aventador Miura Homage. The special edition car has been created by the company’s Ad Personam customization division.
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Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
Louis Vuitton Opens New Sydney Store; New Bags, Kangaroo Creative and Top Brass, by Eva Rinaldi
Today luxury brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store (Louis Vuitton George Street Maison) in Sydney, Australia.
We've been tipped that Gucci is also planning to open a megastore in Sydney's CBD. This follows a trend of high end fashion labels looking to hold parties in 'Sin City' Sydney including Mulberry, and you have Chanel and Prada tipped to soon open new luxury stores.
Apparently some Sydneysiders still have some loose change to spend on luxury goods (or at least that's what the band bean-counters and marketers are banking on).
The Louis Vuitton George Street Maison, understood to have cost in the region of $10 million, will deliver three-storeys of men's and women's fashion, plus "personalised services".
The iconic French fashion brand enjoyed its VIP opening in Sydney and of course there's a couple of celebs to be spotted, with Australian actress Cate Blanchett (carbon campaigning to fashion is quite diverse) getting a bit of media rub off from the event today. It's also strongly rumoured that there will be a party at the premises tonight. No, Angelina Jolie, who has associated with the brand, will not be there, but some Aussie celebrities sure will be. Company CEO Yves Carcelle was at today's launch and is expected to also show tonight.
Louis Vuitton Oceania CEO Philip Corne advised the new development had been a long time coming for the brand, which now has 10 stores across the nation.
"We wouldn't commit to the investment until we found the right space that allowed us to present the brand as we should," he said.
Not to be upstaged (too much) this coming Wednesday Gucci will also celebrate its latest store opening at Westfield Sydney, the city's mega retail development in the Pitt St Mall, which also houses the luxury labels Mulberry, Christian Louboutin, Bottega Veneta and a Chanel boutique, while its Castlereagh St show-piece undergoes a $4 million refurbishment.
Corne understands that his brand is high end luxury and not for everyone: "People have worked hard and are rewarding themselves."
As Time magazine once said, it was the French who "practically invented the notion of luxury in the 17th century, and in the 18th century, when Marie Antoinette took up residence in Versailles, and added her own twist to the genre". After conducting a survey on global luxury, the magazine concluded Europeans regard "luxury as a means of expressing their individuality and style while placing high authenticity and pedigree".
In Sydney apparently there is a group of cashed up consumers who don't mind spending up on luxury goods.
A big congratulations to top brass Yves Carcelle, Philip Corne, Jean-Baptiste Debains and their team for putting on a great launch today.
Louis Vuitton cool and hip tips: we understand that the company sometimes creates very limited amounts of personalised goods. How about a guitar case for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, a surfboard and surfboard cover (what pro would actually use that) and even a skate-board and cover (good luck with Maroubra Beach Skatepark local boys). When LV talks "personalised services" and "personalised products", they aren't kidding.
Websites
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton (Australia)
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotograph
Eva Rinaldi Photography
Splash News
Media Man News
Music News Australia
I actually worked at this location [Stack A] in the late 1960s well before it was redeveloped.
I am willing to bet that the majority of Dubliners are unaware of this shopping centre which for many years could have been described as a ‘Ghost Shopping Centre’.
the current CHQ [Custom House Quay] building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock. The building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the city’s bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse with vaults beneath to store wine. Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and revamped.
Back in July 2013 it was reported the CHQ Building been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The Grade One listed building was redeveloped by the DDDA in 2005 for a cost of approximately €45 million but has struggled to maintain high occupancy levels. 82 per cent of the development was vacant when it was put on sale. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who said that “the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”.
The history of Burlington North Santa Fe dates back to 1849. Its current parent company/CEO is Berkshire Hathaway/Warren Buffet. BNSF is currently the largest freight railway in North America.
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
N10HD - Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global 5000 - Tornante Comp. LLC (untitled)
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 9682 - built in 2015
The Tornante Company, LLC is an American privately held investment firm founded and owned by former The Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner in 2005. Tornante invests in, acquires and operate media and entertainment companies. Tornante means “hairpin turn” in Italian
MAY 16-17, 2016: CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA
Fortune Brainstorm E: Where Energy, Technology, and Sustainability Meet will bring together the smartest people we know who are operating at the forefront of the convergence of technology, energy and sustainability, including CEOs and senior executives, investors, policy makers, environmentalists, and thought leaders. We’ll challenge one another to explore the disruptive technologies and the new business models that will be needed to thrive in this age of rapid change. In two action-packed days, we’ll showcase the people, companies, ideas, and strategies that will bring about the transformational change the business world needs. We’ll gather May 16-17, in Carlsbad, CA.
Early confirmed speakers include: Zipcar President Kaye Ceille, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff, PG&E CEO Tony Earley, Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford, Paulson Institute Vice Chair of Climate and Sustainable Urbanization Kate Gordon, GMO Co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist Jeremy Grantham, Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich, TerraPower CEO Lee McIntire, The Kitchen Co-founder Kimbal Musk, Coca-Cola Chief Sustainability Officer Bea Perez, Barclays Managing Director of Investment Banking Theodore Roosevelt IV, and Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company CEO George Whitesides.
If business is to help solve the world’s biggest environmental problems, and do so profitably, corporate executives, environmentalists, and politicians will need to innovate and collaborate, think big and act boldly. The second annual Brainstorm E builds upon the distinguished legacy of Brainstorm GREEN, long the premier conference on business, sustainability, and green investing. It’s the optimal place to deliver fresh thinking, actionable solutions, and unparalleled opportunities to build top-level relationships.
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm E
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
Louis Vuitton New Sydney Store VIP Party
Early today luxury brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store (Louis Vuitton George Street Maison) in Sydney, Australia, and this was followed up this evening with a VIP party with a healthy amount of celebrities and other VIP's on hand, along with about 30 media personnel covering the black carpet outside the building.
The Louis Vuitton George Street Maison, understood to have cost in the region of $10 million, will deliver three-storeys of men's and women's fashion, plus "personalised services".
The iconic French fashion brand enjoyed its VIP opening in Sydney earlier today with Australian actress Cate Blanchett getting a bit of media rub off from the event today.
Tonight many more celebs were present with the list including Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones guitarist), Melissa Doyle, Miranda Kerr, Erika Heynatz, Delta Goodrem, Isabel Lucas, Megan Gale, Laura Bingle, Heidi Middleton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Samantha Harris.
Company CEO Yves Carcelle was on hand at both events, and was Oceania CEO Philip Corne.
Mr Corne advised the new development had been a long time coming for the brand, which now has 10 stores across the nation.
"We wouldn't commit to the investment until we found the right space that allowed us to present the brand as we should," he said.
Corne understands that his brand is high end luxury and not for everyone: "People have worked hard and are rewarding themselves."
As Time magazine once said, it was the French who "practically invented the notion of luxury in the 17th century, and in the 18th century, when Marie Antoinette took up residence in Versailles, and added her own twist to the genre". After conducting a survey on global luxury, the magazine concluded Europeans regard "luxury as a means of expressing their individuality and style while placing high authenticity and pedigree".
In Sydney apparently there is a group of cashed up consumers who don't mind spending up on luxury goods.
A big congratulations to top brass Yves Carcelle, Philip Corne, Jean-Baptiste Debains and their team for putting on a great day and evening event.
Louis Vuitton cool and hip tips: we understand that the company sometimes creates very limited amounts of personalised goods. How about a guitar case for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, a surfboard and surfboard cover (what pro would actually use that) and even a skate-board and cover (good luck with Maroubra Beach Skatepark local boys). When LV talks "personalised services" and "personalised products", they aren't kidding.
Websites
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton (Australia)
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
Splash News
Media Man News
Music News Australia
MAC ordered this Quantus V3 Rose watch from the Égard Watch Company in late 2019. It is a rose gold watch from California USA. Their website forecasts that it will likely ship to us in August/September 2020, a delay due to their COVID-19 staff shortages no doubt. The steel, gun metal and black metal versions at my last web visit was that they were totally sold out. I first saw this watch on a YouTube commercial as it had shown the watch back medallion of a Mayan calendar. The next day I found a YouTube video supporting the Police which upset the Black Lives Matter followers. That negative reaction gained TV news coverage as the company CEO wrote and narrated the most excellent short video.
An Egard wrist watch. We are waiting for this to hopefully arrive by courier in September 2020. I don’t want to wait until Halloween. I’m excited and must constantly remind myself that ‘Patience is a virtue.’ My wife said that I should hold off on seriously considering purchasing their Bermuda edition until our first watch arrives. Cost: CAD$612.00 minus 15% plus (local tax possibly 13% GST from CBSA). She suggests that I sell any watches that I rarely wear. I have some keepers but will consider selling any dust collectors.
This watch curves around the wearer’s wrist.
For some reason Flickr will not allow my previous screen grab of the rose gold model that we chose to be displayed on Flickr so I suggest that you visit their website to see their products and to search YouTube for Egard Watch Co. and the newscast discussing corporate reactions to their well done pro police video. They advised us that they are unable to send a brown watch strap rather than a black leather strap. They expect to ship our watch order in September 2020, but with COVID - 19 being so active in California, we will not be surprised by a delay in shipping. It’s difficult to wait patiently as our expectations are so high. The wait was well worth it. MAC will not wear it due to its weight so I get to wear it whenever we go out, although that is not very often due to CORONA-19. I am particularly pleased that it is not a loud watch like many Swatch watches. I had liked a few of their designs but would have hated to be assaulted by the loud Swatch ticking.
Ships with both the rubber strap and leather strap. The Rubber is the default strap.
Limited Edition to 3,000 (made in limited batches)
Case size: 43mm
Case Material: Two piece curved 316L stainless steel
Strap Width: 22mm
Movement: Modified dual balance wheel, Manual wind Mechanical movement made in collaboration with Jinghe Ind.
Glass: Uniquely curved sapphire crystal
Strap: High grade rubber + additional free full grain italian leather strap
Photos by Miller Taylor.
February 2016 CreativeMornings/Raleigh event (global theme: Ethics) with guest speaker John Replogle.
Like the company he leads, John Replogle has a mission: to help people live healthier lives on a healthier planet. Replogle took the reins of the green-cleaning pioneer Seventh Generation in March, 2011. Under his leadership, the company continues to extend the boundaries of corporate consciousness. In 2011, Seventh Generation was acknowledged as the number 1 green company in America.
Replogle previously spent five years at Burt’s Bees as Chief Executive Officer and President. He is credited with leading the company’s deepened commitment to human and environmental well-being through the development of a business model called The Greater Good, embracing the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit. Prior experience includes leadership roles at Unilever, Guinness and BCG. John is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School.
An advocate of creative corporate social responsibility, Replogle has been recognized with the 2012 Global Green Millennium Award for Corporate Environmental Citizenship and the 2011 United Nations Leader of Change award. A proponent of education and humanitarian causes, Replogle has served on the Boards of Habitat for Humanity, Terracycle, Ravenscroft and Dartmouth College. He was also a Director with the Sealy Corporation and is currently a Director of Cree. He and his wife Kristin have four daughters and live in Raleigh, NC.
Special thanks to our host CAM Raleigh and sponsors CompostNow, Remedy, for video production, Counter Culture Coffee, who generously provided us with complimentary coffee, and lucettegrace, who provided the tasty breakfast snacks.
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
During PBS KIDS’ “Splash and Bubbles” session at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, July 28, 2016, actor Leslie Carrah-Rudolph, series executive producer and The Jim Henson Company CEO Lisa Henson and series creator, executive producer and actor John Tartaglia discuss the new PBS KIDS show designed to encourage kids ages 4-7 to explore the natural undersea world.
(Premieres November 23, 2016)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
During PBS KIDS’ “Splash and Bubbles” session at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, July 28, 2016, actor Leslie Carrah-Rudolph, series executive producer and The Jim Henson Company CEO Lisa Henson and series creator, executive producer and actor John Tartaglia discuss the new PBS KIDS show designed to encourage kids ages 4-7 to explore the natural undersea world.
(Premieres November 23, 2016)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Louis Vuitton New Sydney Store VIP Party
Early today luxury brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store (Louis Vuitton George Street Maison) in Sydney, Australia, and this was followed up this evening with a VIP party with a healthy amount of celebrities and other VIP's on hand, along with about 30 media personnel covering the black carpet outside the building.
The Louis Vuitton George Street Maison, understood to have cost in the region of $10 million, will deliver three-storeys of men's and women's fashion, plus "personalised services".
The iconic French fashion brand enjoyed its VIP opening in Sydney earlier today with Australian actress Cate Blanchett getting a bit of media rub off from the event today.
Tonight many more celebs were present with the list including Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones guitarist), Melissa Doyle, Miranda Kerr, Erika Heynatz, Delta Goodrem, Isabel Lucas, Megan Gale, Laura Bingle, Heidi Middleton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Samantha Harris.
Company CEO Yves Carcelle was on hand at both events, and was Oceania CEO Philip Corne.
Mr Corne advised the new development had been a long time coming for the brand, which now has 10 stores across the nation.
"We wouldn't commit to the investment until we found the right space that allowed us to present the brand as we should," he said.
Corne understands that his brand is high end luxury and not for everyone: "People have worked hard and are rewarding themselves."
As Time magazine once said, it was the French who "practically invented the notion of luxury in the 17th century, and in the 18th century, when Marie Antoinette took up residence in Versailles, and added her own twist to the genre". After conducting a survey on global luxury, the magazine concluded Europeans regard "luxury as a means of expressing their individuality and style while placing high authenticity and pedigree".
In Sydney apparently there is a group of cashed up consumers who don't mind spending up on luxury goods.
A big congratulations to top brass Yves Carcelle, Philip Corne, Jean-Baptiste Debains and their team for putting on a great day and evening event.
Louis Vuitton cool and hip tips: we understand that the company sometimes creates very limited amounts of personalised goods. How about a guitar case for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, a surfboard and surfboard cover (what pro would actually use that) and even a skate-board and cover (good luck with Maroubra Beach Skatepark local boys). When LV talks "personalised services" and "personalised products", they aren't kidding.
Websites
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton (Australia)
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
Splash News
Media Man News
Music News Australia
Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Ulster Bank invited me to the Press Launch of The Vaults.
The Vaults is a state-of-the-art dedicated event space in the historic 200 year old former wine and whiskey storehouse beneath Dogpatch Labs, which is set to become a focal point for Ireland’s technology community. The Vaults will comprise flexible workshop and events space, large and small meeting rooms and a bar.
Special guests Minister Simon Harris TD and Neville Isdell former CEO the Coca Cola Company spoke, and we got the chance to meet with the companies based in Dogpatch Labs over breakfast and coffee.
A location like no other building in Dublin, the chq building overlooks the River Liffey and George’s Dock, the site which was to be home to Ireland’s National Theater, the Abbey. The chq building is a grade one listed building situated within the heart of the Ireland's bustling International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Docklands. Formerly known as Stack A, it was built in 1820 as a wine and tobacco warehouse. The then Stack A was made famous when it hosted the Crimean War Banquet in 1856 celebrating the return of 3,000 Irish soldiers. The building has been magnificently restored and enhanced.
3-JULY-12013
“THE LANDMARK CHQ Building in the heart of the IFSC has been sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for just over €10 million. The property was bought by former Coca-Cola Company CEO Neville Isdell, who says that the initial plan is to make improvements to the building before deciding on its long-time use”
During PBS KIDS’ “Splash and Bubbles” session at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, July 28, 2016, actor Leslie Carrah-Rudolph, series executive producer and The Jim Henson Company CEO Lisa Henson and series creator, executive producer and actor John Tartaglia discuss the new PBS KIDS show designed to encourage kids ages 4-7 to explore the natural undersea world.
(Premieres November 23, 2016)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
During PBS KIDS’ “Splash and Bubbles” session at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, July 28, 2016, actor Leslie Carrah-Rudolph, series executive producer and The Jim Henson Company CEO Lisa Henson and series creator, executive producer and actor John Tartaglia discuss the new PBS KIDS show designed to encourage kids ages 4-7 to explore the natural undersea world.
(Premieres November 23, 2016)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
MAY 16-17, 2016: CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA
Fortune Brainstorm E: Where Energy, Technology, and Sustainability Meet will bring together the smartest people we know who are operating at the forefront of the convergence of technology, energy and sustainability, including CEOs and senior executives, investors, policy makers, environmentalists, and thought leaders. We’ll challenge one another to explore the disruptive technologies and the new business models that will be needed to thrive in this age of rapid change. In two action-packed days, we’ll showcase the people, companies, ideas, and strategies that will bring about the transformational change the business world needs. We’ll gather May 16-17, in Carlsbad, CA.
Early confirmed speakers include: Zipcar President Kaye Ceille, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff, PG&E CEO Tony Earley, Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford, Paulson Institute Vice Chair of Climate and Sustainable Urbanization Kate Gordon, GMO Co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist Jeremy Grantham, Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich, TerraPower CEO Lee McIntire, The Kitchen Co-founder Kimbal Musk, Coca-Cola Chief Sustainability Officer Bea Perez, Barclays Managing Director of Investment Banking Theodore Roosevelt IV, and Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company CEO George Whitesides.
If business is to help solve the world’s biggest environmental problems, and do so profitably, corporate executives, environmentalists, and politicians will need to innovate and collaborate, think big and act boldly. The second annual Brainstorm E builds upon the distinguished legacy of Brainstorm GREEN, long the premier conference on business, sustainability, and green investing. It’s the optimal place to deliver fresh thinking, actionable solutions, and unparalleled opportunities to build top-level relationships.
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