{"id":64139,"date":"2026-03-29T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64139"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:26:33","slug":"bentley-kiev-third-place-retail-seller-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64139","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Kiev Third Place Retail Seller in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to be a Ukrainian oligarch during wartime.<br \/>\nJohn Leake Mar 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Bentley Kiev was recognized as the third-place winner in the 2025 European Scorecard Awards for top-performing retailers, according to a March 2026 announcement by Bentley\u2019s Regional Director for Europe, Richard Leopold.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking refers to top retailer sales within the European region, with the average Bentley selling for roughly $400,000.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the \u201cBest of the Best\u201d retailer awards highlighted Bentley Padova (1st) and Bentley Rotterdam (2nd) and Kiev (3rd).<\/p>\n<p>The announcement reminded me of the the observation by Peter Thomas Bauer, a Hungarian-born British development economist:<\/p>\n<p>Foreign aid is a mechanism by which poor people in rich countries are taxed to support the lifestyles of rich people in poor countries. The aid primarily serves three Ms\u2014: munitions, monuments, and Mercedes for leaders and cronies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to be a Ukrainian oligarch during wartime. John Leake Mar 23, 2026 Bentley Kiev was recognized as the third-place winner in the 2025 European Scorecard Awards for top-performing retailers, according to a March 2026 announcement by Bentley\u2019s Regional Director for Europe, Richard Leopold. The ranking refers to top retailer sales within the European &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bentley Kiev Third Place Retail Seller in Europe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64140,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64139\/revisions\/64140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}