Laura Juliet Kuenssberg (born 1976) is a British journalist. In July 2015, she was appointed as the political editor of BBC News, the first woman to hold the position, in succession to Nick Robinson.[1][2]
The daughter of Scottish businessman Nick Kuenssberg, OBE,[3][4] and his wife Sally Kuenssberg, CBE,[5] her paternal grandfather was the German-born founder and president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr. Ekkehard von Kuenssberg. Her maternal grandfather, Lord Robertson, was a High Court of Justiciary judge. Her great-uncle was the last British Governor General of Nigeria, Sir James Wilson Robertson.
Kuenssberg was born in Italy, while her father was working there for Coats Viyella.[6] She grew up in Glasgow, with her brother and sister,[7] and attended Laurel Park School, an independent girls' school.[8]
Kuenssberg studied history at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a journalism course at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.,[9] where she worked on an NBC News political programme.
Her brother is a senior civil servant in the Department for Communities and Local Government. Her sister is a diplomat and was appointed as the UK High Commissioner to Mozambique in 2014.[9][10]
Coats Group
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In 1802 James Coats set up a weaving business, also in Paisley. In 1826 he opened a cotton mill at Ferguslie to produce his own thread[5] and, when he retired in 1830, his sons, James & Peter, took up the business under the name of J. & P. Coats.[4] The firm expanded internationally, particularly to the USA. In 1890 Coats listed on the London Stock Exchange,[3] with a capital base of £5.7M.[5]
In 1952 J. & P. Coats and the Clark Thread Co. merged.[4] In 1961 a merger with Patons and Baldwins created Coats Patons.[3] In 1986 a merger with Vantona Viyella created Coats Viyella.[3] In 2003 Guinness Peat took Coats private and in 2015 it returned to the market as 'Coats Group'.[3]
Controversy
In 2007 Coats was fined €110 million by the European Commission for participation in cartels with Prym, YKK and other companies to fix and manipulate the prices of zips and other fasteners, and of the machinery to make them. One of the cartels ran for twenty-one years. An appeal in 2012 to the General Court of the European Union was dismissed, and the fine upheld.[6][7]
吉田 忠雄(よしだ ただお、1908年9月19日 - 1993年7月3日)は日本の実業家で、YKKの創業者。富山県出身。魚津市、黒部市の名誉市民。神奈川県藤沢市に居住していた。
富山県下新川郡下中島村住吉(現在の魚津市住吉)で生まれる。魚津尋常高等小学校卒業後の1928年に上京。
古谷商店の社員を経て1934年にYKKの前身であるサンエス商会を設立し、ファスナーの生産を始める。以降、YKKを世界的な企業に育て上げた。兄弟の吉田久松もYKKの設立に貢献した。
魚津町議会議員、魚津商工会議所初代会頭(1949年~)、富山地方裁判所魚津支部民事司法委員なども務めた。
1993年7月3日、肺炎のため84歳で死去。
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How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2
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BBC News
12 August 2015
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