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...But despite the rising risks and complexity, Mark Bennett, technology and real estate counsel at Hogan Lovells in Sydney, says companies building data centres will be guided first and foremost by return...
...Close to Grand Rapids, the woodworking hub once known as Furniture City, Zeeland is where Dirk Jan De Pree bought the Star Furniture Company in 1923 and renamed it for the father-in-law who funded the investment...
...Royal Caribbean says: “Our foremost priority is getting our crew members home safely and we are investing heavily in this massive endeavour.”...
...The Devos family have done it for Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is hard to think of any revived cities that have not had one of those big advantages....
...Mr Gracias’ early business experience was a galaxy away from the ventures in rockets and self-driving cars that have catapulted an immigrants’ son from the provincial Michigan city of Grand Rapids into the...
...The government said a week ago that it had taken over Anbang Insurance, the company that owns the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, and charged its chairman with financial crimes....
...Meanwhile, Bermuda is the largest base for the “captive insurance” industry, where a company sets up its own insurance arm....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...When Grand Rapids State Bank, in Minnesota, acquired Crow River State Bank last year one of the first things it did was move the new company on to its computer network....
...Driverless cars have become the most striking symbol of its grand ambitions beyond internet search....
...“If you go to Grand Rapids today and sit down with 100 middle-market clients, a large proportion . . . will need checking accounts and foreign exchange or FX derivatives,” he said....
...A visit to Ford’s bodyshop complex in Dearborn, Michigan, shows how much of a gamble the company has taken: it has had to replace its arc welding equipment with machines to screw, rivet, glue and laser-weld...
...For years US designers have had to contend with a furniture market that has been dominated by huge office equipment manufacturers, mainly based in Grand Rapids, Michigan – the Detroit of the design world...
...Growth for the Detroit Three has been particularly rapid as sharp improvements in their product line-ups have helped Ford and Chrysler regain lost market share and GM maintain its position....
...He laid out two central scenarios: Policymakers could prompt an optimistic outlook by striking “grand bargains” in the US, Europe and China, or “fall victim to a more rapid and disorderly delevering”....
...Cyberthieves have cost US companies and their banks more than $15bn in the past five years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation found in a recent study, and “account takeovers” such as at Experi-Metal...
...He locates the lurch to extremism in the rapid social and economic modernisation of postwar France....
...The rapid and efficient integration of the two companies – a discipline that stems directly from Mr Dimon’s ruthless pragmatism – coupled with a stellar performance by JPMorgan’s investment bank meant that...
...These are grand claims, but I can justify them with another one: in more than two decades, I’ve never interviewed anyone as extraordinary as Morris....
...Krishnan, also a professor at the University of Michigan, start by telling us “there is a fundamental transformation of business under way [which] will radically alter the very nature of the [company] and...
...As markets rallied on Friday morning, there was fresh support from the US Treasury with a $50bn temporary insurance scheme for money market funds....
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...Stock prices of insurance companies dropped sharply over the period, reflecting concerns about the adequacy of their capital positions. On March 2, American International Group, Inc....
...Agencies such as the World Bank argue for a grand bargain that ends in freer food trade....
...developer, and SunAmerica, an insurance group....
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