Hints and tips:
...Ocado’s executives visited Nedre Vats in 2012 and proposed the two join forces to build an upgraded version for groceries....
...Japanese carmaker Toyota is stumping up $349m to back Joby Aviation, which aims to launch services as early as 2023....
...When Ford was looking to sell JLR in 2008, Bhattacharyya invited Ratan Tata, scion of the family, to the West Midlands with the aim of convincing him to buy the British brands....
...Rajat Gupta finally tells his side of the story Rajat Gupta, who rose to lead McKinsey starting in the 1990s, didn’t take the stand to defend himself in his 2012 insider trading scandal....
...Ratan Tata, the family scion who ran Tata Sons for 21 years until the appointment of Mr Mistry in 2012, turned the group into a major international investor with the purchases of UK-based industrial groups...
...But it also rebadged a sports car from its Scion brand, which it is abolishing, as the Toyota 86, the brand’s only true sports car....
...its 148-year history when he took charge in December 2012....
...Scion brand, designed to appeal to elusive younger buyers....
...In 2012 and again in 2013 the yen depreciated against the won by nearly 20 per cent; in 2014 it fell by another 10th. This had a predictable impact....
...The Aston Martin Cygnet cost £32,000 but was little more than a dolled-up Toyota iQ, which cost two-thirds less. It sold abysmally and was killed off this year after just two years of production....
...Luxury compacts have become a lucrative market for premium brands such as Mercedes-Benz and Audi, but the £31,000 Cygnet, which cost more than twice the price of the Toyota iQ it was based on, failed miserably...
...Toyota and its two sister brands, Lexus and Scion, plan to unveil 19 new or substantially refreshed models this year in an attempt to recapture their past glory....
...Toyota’s Scion brand has a Detroit-type problem....
...In addition to the iQ electric car, which Toyota is aiming at urban commuters, the company is planning to introduce a “plug-in” version of the Prius, also in 2012....
...Toyota, the industry’s largest producer, plans to begin making an electric vehicle based on its iQ city car in 2012, but thinks more customers will buy a plug- in version of its top-selling Prius hybrid...
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