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April 4, 2024

Private equity

Advent and CVC make joint bid for European pet food business

...A slowdown in dealmaking means they are sitting on a record number of unsold companies, however....

March 24, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

Stripe Inc

Stripe in ‘no rush’ to go public as cash flow turns positive

...The San Francisco- and Dublin-headquartered company is among the most valuable private businesses in the US, alongside Elon Musk’s SpaceX and artificial intelligence company OpenAI....

March 13, 2024

UK manufacturing

Chinese carmaker Chery eyes UK factory this decade

...Brexit and the size of the market mean the Chinese company is considering a separate plant in Britain rather than just one dedicated European factory, he said, adding that the company had begun initial discussions...

January 4, 2024

Derek Draper

Former Labour adviser Derek Draper dies aged 56

...After the 1997 election, in which Blair won a landslide majority, Draper was juggling a job at a lobbying company with media work for the Modern Review magazine, Daily Express newspaper and Talk Radio....

January 5, 2024

Paramount Global

Sony and Apollo discuss teaming up to bid for Paramount Global

...Skydance is offering to buy Redstone’s National Amusements, which controls 77 per cent of Paramount’s voting stock, and later merge with the two companies....

April 19, 2024

FT Live

US Decarbonization and Industrial Transition Summit

Securing the resources to build and finance America's clean energy future

Inside BusinessAndy Bounds

Business worries EU directive on consumer protection will leave them exposed

...Kramer hired a stereotypical huckster New York attorney to argue the cup lid was faulty. EU companies believe Brussels could leave them burnt, too, with legislation passed last month....

April 3, 2024

Overheard in the newsroom: how I found myself in the court of King Trump

...Then last year, I received an email from Kramer: she was going to be throwing a special gala to celebrate Trump, and I was invited....

March 2, 2024

Eurozone interest rates

ECB keeps interest rates on hold at 4% in contested decision

...“What the ECB has done today comes very close to a pre-commitment to cut rates in June,” said Jörg Krämer, chief economist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt....

April 11, 2024

Aurubis AG

Aurubis sacks top executives after metal thefts

...In what the company called a “phased exit”, Arnold will leave the group in February, Verhoeven in June and Harings — who has headed the metal recycler since 2019 — is to step down in September....

January 23, 2024

LexAdvertising

Ad agencies should survive AI-driven disruption Premium

...Think, forget and wait for inspiration to strike, was Don Draper’s advice to a newbie copywriter. Successors to the Mad Men generation have a more calculated approach....

February 6, 2024

Peggy Hollinger

Boeing’s mid-flight drama is a severe blow to a troubled company

...But whether they find this is the fault of a supplier, Boeing or neither, it is a severe blow to the US aerospace and defence company’s reputation at a time when it appears to be staggering from one incident...

January 8, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Ken Griffin casts doubt on Nikki Haley’s hopes after $5mn donation

...Tim Draper, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who made early investments in companies including Tesla, told the FT last week that Haley’s donors were not frightened by Trump’s threat....

January 30, 2024

John Thornhill

War has spread to a sixth domain: the private sector

...The war in Ukraine has been a “watershed in many ways”, Kramer tells me, highlighting the need for war planners and private companies to collaborate before any conflict erupts and figure out appropriate...

November 30, 2023

Electric vehicles

Can European carmakers stop China’s electric behemoth BYD?

...But the company also has a close eye on other markets....

February 29, 2024

FT Live

US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

ReviewEconomics books

Markets and Power in Digital Capitalism — Big Tech’s walled gardens

...search, email, payment services, maps and so on — as reminiscent of company towns as of the East India Company....

March 26, 2024

John Thornhill

Digital advertising is still far too murky

...Google could simply stop serving ads through its search and video partner networks, Kramer says, but he doubts the company wants to become a smaller, if better, business....

December 7, 2023

ReviewDance

São Paulo Dance Company at Sadler’s Wells — athletic solos and tight-knit ensembles

...A packed house and sustained cheers greeted São Paulo Dance Company’s UK debut at Sadler’s Wells in London last weekend....

February 12, 2024

Believe

Warner kicks off bidding war for French music group Believe

...As of December 2023, the company had a cash balance of $754mn and net debt of $3.3bn....

March 7, 2024

LexTechnology sector

Tech lay-offs: expect revenue per employee to climb next year Premium

...Compare that with a company such as Meta, where revenues next year will also be equal to about $2.2mn a head in the estimated post-lay-off workforce, and it looks like a suitable size....

December 7, 2023

Ecommerce25 min

The rise of Pinduoduo and Temu: profits and secrets | FT Film

...Ireland has a low corporate tax rate, and that's helped attract other global tech companies like Apple and Meta and Google. And that also means there's a pool of tech talent available here in Ireland....

March 6, 2024

Corporate bonds

Gramercy bets on beaten-down Chinese property company bonds

...He said the South American country had benefited from the easing of US sanctions on its oil industry in October and the entry of US companies such as Chevron....

January 9, 2024

Special ReportNavigating Cyber Risk

How to improve cyber resilience across your workforce

...He also recommends that companies nominate and signpost a specific person or group who can cross-check and verify suspicious digital activity....

January 16, 2024

Apple Inc

Apple’s $85bn-a-year services business faces legal reckoning

...has a March deadline for legal compliance from tech companies....

January 1, 2024

World33 min

Eskom: how corruption and crime turned the lights off in South Africa | FT Film

...And then, it was abandoned completely. In theory now, a private company can generate power at whatever scale it wants to....

December 20, 2023

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