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...Before that it had announced plans to trial furniture-leasing to customers, in a bid to cast off the reputation that its products are disposable rather than hard wearing....
...“The company car is still seen as a status symbol, and it will be very hard to break that,” says Ken Buckley, head of sales at TCH Leasing, a contract hire and fleet management company....
...But auto finance is now used in three-quarters of new car transactions in the UK – a market worth £13.4bn – up from less than half in 2009, according to the Finance & Leasing Association....
...Analysts also complain that its stores are dingy, but Sears points to the 44m customers who it says use its home service business to repair and maintain their appliances....
...During December, Chinese companies notched up deals to buy the bulk of AIG’s ILFC aircraft leasing company for $4.2bn and a bankrupt US car battery maker for $256m....
...At the turn of the 20th century, the emirate drew in heavily taxed Persian traders; in the 1980s, the Iran-Iraq war turned the city’s port into a haven for tankers and ship repair; and, in the aftermath...
...The securitisation market’s failure to recover from its slump during the crisis is complicating efforts by Citigroup and other troubled financial groups such as AIG to sell unwanted assets and repair their...
...Denmark’s AP Møller-Maersk has taken a major step towards securing the future of its loss-making shipyard business after it announced the leasing of much of its main Lindø site to Denmark’s largest ship-repair...
...The US bank was also involved in a financing arrangement over the summer for Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, an aviation services company including leasing, manufacturing and repair services....
...a news conference, Mr Rendell said that, without the I-80 tolls, the Turnpike Commission’s alternative fundraising plan would have left a $450m annual funding gap in the state’s $1bn annual budget for repairs...
...Leasing to a private operator emerged as the best way to secure operation of a state-of-the-art toll road and money to repair other infrastructure, Mr Kienitz says....
...As long as I keep the ratio to breaking less than I repair, it’s OK. I also have to be on the ground. I am a kind of ranch-house guy....
...UPS, FedEx’s rival, also has orders for 10 aircraft and ILFC, the leasing group, has orders for five freighters, but Hans Peter Ring, chief financial officer said these were “all in the cancellation zone...
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