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...It was through this investment vehicle that they bought nearly 30 per cent of Braas Monier, a German roof-tile maker, in 2016....
...vehicle classes....
...UBS thinks the specialty chemicals sale could fetch €9.2bn....
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...Specialty pharma accounted for about half the merger arb fund at the start of 2017, according to documents from a European vehicle that mirrors its performance, and the fund has a long distance to go to...
...Weaker performance in the subprime sector is being driven mainly by the weaker credit quality present in the 2013-2015 securitized pools, along with marginally lower used vehicle values....
...The share prices of Platform Specialty Products — which along with Nomad was also founded by dealmaker Martin Franklin — and Valeant Pharmaceuticals, have also fallen sharply....
...Mr Franklin recently set up Nomad Foods, an investment vehicle, to buy brands in the food retail sector....
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...Most recently, Mr Franklin launched another special purpose acquisition vehicle called Nomad Foods with billionaire Noam Gottesman to acquire frozen foods businesses....
...High-end or “specialty coffee”, which includes the coffee made from pods as well as artisanal drip brew, now accounts for more than half of all coffee consumed in the US....
...chemicals group Platform Specialty....
...That “construct” has proved lucrative for Valeant’s biggest investors, which include ValueAct, the activist fund manager, and Pershing Square, the vehicle managed by hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman....
...Since the crisis, Ellington has created and listed two permanent capital vehicles, a Reit and a $670m specialty finance company called Ellington Financial, which buys mortgage-backed securities and also...
...Phillips Specialty Products Inc (PSPI) – a subsidiary of Phillips 66, itself a spin-off from ConocoPhillips – will cost Berkshire Hathaway slightly less than $1bn, but Mr Buffett is not paying in cash....
...The acquisition vehicle (or “blank check firm” as they’re called in the States) raised $150m to fund a purchase or merger with specialty chemical businesses or performance materials companies....
...Oshkosh is among the Pentagon’s largest suppliers, making blast-resistant vehicles for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq....
...Cars and motoring are not really FT Alphaville’s specialty. But we do love public spats....
...In the past 18 months it has lost out on two significant contracts to supply land vehicles to the US military, with both contracts going to the Wisconsin-based Oshkosh....
...vehicles it supplied to the US government....
...Oshkosh was up 1.3 per cent to $30.38 as the maker of speciality vehicles won contracts worth $691m to supply the US army with tactical trucks and trailers, the US defence department said late last Friday...
...The US Army said a peer review conducted by top Pentagon officials had reaffirmed its decision last year to award a five-year $3.2bn (£2bn) contract for a family of medium tactical vehicles (FMTVs) to Oshkosh...
...The new vehicles are planned to replace the Scimitar scout vehicles currently in use in Afghanistan. Shares in Oshkosh fell 13 per cent to $3.56 on Monday....
...Oshkosh, the speciality vehicle manufacturer, said that it had received a $438m order for an additional 1,000 blast-proof trucks from the US military, sending its shares up 3.2 per cent to $40.25....
...BAE Systems took on 1.1 per cent to 346½p after the US government upheld its appeal against the Army’s decision to award a $3bn armoured vehicle contract to Oshkosh, a Wisconsin-based company....
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