Billionaire Canadians 🍁
This Week in Review ☕️ : Selfridges and Chicken Satay | Paleo Pescatarian and Pollotarian | Subway and Dominoes launch Vegan Items | The Worlds Most Expensive Cities to live in | Wildlife exploration
Quick Bites
Retail 🛍 : Thai retail giant in talks to buy Selfridges department store for approx $5bn.
The billionaire Canadian family who own Selfridges- the Westons have agreed to sell to Central Group and want to close the deal by the end of the year, The Times reports.
Hmm..that's gonna be a lot of Pad Thai in the Selfridges Food Court next year 🥢
The Chirathivat family has a net worth of $11.6bn and ranked 4th in Forbes' Thailand Rich List this July.
If this deal goes through, this would be the 1st time Selfridges would change hands in 20 years.
Central Group's retail portfolio already includes:
💡Rinascente in Italy
💡de Bijenkorf in Netherlands
💡Arnotts and Brown Thomas in Ireland
💡Illum in Denmark
💡GLOBUS in Switzerland
💡The Kadewe group in Germany
Our Thoughts💡: Excited to see how the Thai conglomerate spruces up the iconic department store.. Could be a refreshing change for the grand old lady of Oxford Street!
Current Mood💡: Selfridges and Satay 🍢
Food 🍖 : Paleo, Pescatarian, Pollotarian, Non-Vegatarian, Vegetarian.. and we finally have a winner- Vegan.
The plant-based foods market is set to hit $162bn by the next decade. The current value of the market is $29.4bn, Bloomberg Intelligence reports.
Vegans are in for a treat as global food chains from Dominoes to Burger king launch international expansions.
Meanwhile, McD employees at the drive thru watching our Subaru pull up for our 4th Quarter Pounder today 🙈👇🏻
Key Highlights from Plant-Based News:
💡Dominoes brings Vegan Pepperoni to its UK menu next year. The new Vegan PepperonNAY will launch in January 2022, in line with the upcoming Veganuary
💡Subway announces vegan version of its Pig In Blanket Sub. It features vegan sausage wrapped in vegan bacon and a sweet maple syrup glaze
💡Leading brand- Violife Cheese to expand its cheese collection to Vegan Halloumi and Smoked Gouda.
Mexican cheese varieties will be placed on shelves at Whole Foods this month too
💡UK Supermarket giant- Asda launches affordable vegan cheeseboard for Christmas
💡Vegan ice-cream brand Doozy Pots celebrates a nationwide launch in the US for the 1st time.
Created by former Ben & Jerry’s flavor guru and food scientist- Kirsten Sutaria, the gelato is made from a combo of hemp and oat.
Customers can choose between Raspberry Swirl, Banana Cinnamon-Date, and Smooth Coffee flavor gelatos.
(The silver lining💡: they’re made entirely from organic and fair trade ingredients!)
💡North-American Bakery- Tate’s Bake Shop announces vegan cookie line. From chocolate-chip to vanilla maple, customers can indulge in some sweet dairy-free treats this festive season!
Our Thoughts💡: Ok, so we can't drink, smoke, get high or eat Brie now?!
Lets just suck all the joy outta life and wait for Omicron to take us all out tf 🙈
Also, is consuming non-vegan food really a "sin"?! What's with the judgement?!
Personally, we dig an all-American hotdog with sauerkraut, smoked cheese, dijon mustard and fried onions. A goey, melty ball of cheesy and meat goodness.. 🌭👇🏻
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Global Culture 🌎 : These are the world's most expensive cities to live in right now, according the to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU):
💡#1: Tel Aviv
💡#2: Paris
💡#3: Singapore
💡#4: Zurich
💡#5: Hong Kong
💡#6: New York
💡#7: Geneva
💡#8: Copenhagen
💡#9: Los Angeles
💡#10: Osaka
The rising prices for groceries and transport were the main factors in Tel Aviv taking the #1 spot, Bloomberg reports.
“Although most economies are now recovering as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out, many major cities are still seeing spikes in cases, leading to social restrictions. These have disrupted the supply of goods, leading to shortages and higher prices"
-EIU
Key Highlights by Bloomberg:
💡Rome saw the biggest fall in rankings from 32nd to 48th place
💡Tehran leaped from 79th to 29th place
💡Hong Kong had the most expensive petrol prices, at $2.50 per liter
💡Branded cigarette prices went up 6.7% on average
💡The Syrian capital of Damascus remains the world’s cheapest city
Wildlife 🦖 : About time we meet the dinosaur with the deadly tale!
A fossil from Chile reveals Dinosaur species with Aztec sword-like tale, The Weather Channel reports.
Key Highlights from the Weather Channel:
💡Dinosaur is called 'Stegouros Elengassen'. 'Stego' means roof, and 'Uros' means tail. 'Elengassen' means an armoured beast, derived from Greek mythology.
💡It is 6.5-foot long with studded skin
💡The creature lived on Earth between 71.7mn and 74.9mn years ago
💡Bony structures called osteoderms covered the back and sides of the dinosaur
💡This peculiar species belonged to the Anklosaur family and dominated subantarctic Chile during its time
Quicker Bites:
'Extreme vaccine discrimination' risks leaving Africa behind in pandemic, report says.
Italy is further cracking down on the unvaccinated.
Atleast 22 people killed after volcano reupts in Indonesia.
UN and WHO call out travel restrictions targeting Africa over Omicron variant.
UK orders 114mn extra vaccination doses for use over the next two years.
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