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Yay! Tyler Brûlé!
wagyl wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Monocle
Yay! Tyler Brûlé!
Monocle Sells Minority Stake to Nikkei Inc.
---Company says deal values Monocle at more than $100 million.---
foliomag.com | 09/02/2014
Global business and culture media brand Monocle announced this week that it has sold a minority stake to Nikkei Inc., the Tokyo-based financial news company.
Nikkei's stake was not specified, but according to Monocle, the deal values the brand at more than $100 million.
Monocle chairman and editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé's holding company Twinkontent now owns about 80 percent of the company.
On the surface, London-based Monocle gets access to Nikkei's editorial operation and Nikkei can tap into Monocle's distribution for its English-language weekly, the Nikkei Asian Review. Likewise, Nikkei's magazine group will help market Monocle in Japan.
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Samurai_Jerk wrote:You'll never guess which city "Monocle" ranked as world's most livable.
kurogane wrote:Given how ridiculous some of the older definitions and parameters were, one would hope so but the subjectivity of things like that make these surveys worth water cooler fodder and not much else in myhomo
kurogane wrote:I have noticed a slight upsurge in the number of Baby Boomers here talking about retiring to Japan ...
Yokohammer wrote:kurogane wrote:I have noticed a slight upsurge in the number of Baby Boomers here talking about retiring to Japan ...
The concept of retiring to Japan falls into the same category as rainbow-farting unicorns for me. I'm here, have been for 40+ years, so it is a real possibility. But that's "retiring in Japan" as opposed to "retiring to Japan."
But to be fair, if you can handle the culture and language, Japan's rural areas do offer some decent retirement potential. Those prerequisites are non-negotiable though.
wagyl wrote:And what visa status do these people think they will get, pray tell? It is not as though there is a shortage of grey haired residents which Japan wants to fill. They also have a hard enough time finding care workers to look after the ones they have got already.
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