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...We plan to publish the outcome of our operational framework review in the spring....
...Brazil’s industry ministry has in the past six months opened at least half a dozen probes into alleged dumping of products from China’s manufacturing industries, ranging from metal sheets and pre-painted...
...Then, he slashed headcount from 160,000 people to 90,000 and strengthened a balance sheet bloated with debt during 2015’s brutal commodity market downturn....
...Remember this phrase: “It’s not a vacation; it’s a family trip.”...
...The fact is, on their balance sheet, here’s what they have....
...In 2010, the chasm between the assets and liabilities of the Metal Box Pension Scheme — named for a Crown predecessor company — had reached £700mn....
...North America consumer, retail and leisure co-head Jaime Arrastia and metals and mining chair Hugo Dryland will also relocate....
...Prouvé was a man driven by the machine age, an engineer working with electric welding and sheet metal who was not preoccupied with “design”, but with functionalism and the mastery of material....
...His nephew plans to be an elementary school teacher....
...Industrial robots used to handle heavy lumps of metal to make cars....
...It seems that plan hasn’t really materialised....
...To shore up its balance sheet, Johnson Matthey cut its final dividend by 50 per cent to 31.15p a share....
...Mobile towers — the metal structures on which radio antennas sit — were once considered vital to a company’s competitive standing....
...Dividend dropped as priority given to Balance Sheet....
...Restructuring plans involve reducing mid-term production capacity....
...Panmure Gordon projects the pandemic will shave £16m from sales, of which half can be offset through cost savings and government assistance....
...“You may want to go on vacation again, actually go to a restaurant, to the movies,” he says....
...This follows a restructuring plan announced on Monday for Europe’s biggest zinc producer....
...Total also said it plans to reduce capex by ~20% or ~$3bn. On top, the company targets an additional $500m in opex savings. These figures are close to our existing modelling assumption....
...There are thus operating risks in the sector with a low transparency as to how much of it might be mitigated by cost savings....
...Full year 2019 divi’s gone and there’s an additional $30m annualised cost reduction plan, including a 25 per cent reduction in the North American workforce and periodic furloughs....
...Here’s Stifel: Premier is a good business worth saving, and the current management team were doing all the right things with the BP/Dana acquisition + rights issue....
...A small wooden brush lay to her side as she maneuvered a metal scalpel to scrape away protruding cork residue. Every pair of Birkenstocks is hand-checked before leaving Görlitz....
...S32 says its spending plans will not be hurt by the deal. If measured solely against high spot prices for metals, shares of South32 look attractive....
...The new system also reduces the government’s responsibility for directly overseeing all state enterprises, offering further time and cost savings....
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