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...The Scottish company provides consultation, management of assets and engineering services for the energy and materials sector, and recently expanded into clean energy projects such as wind farms....
...The takeover attempts were made as the Aberdeen-based company has come under pressure from an activist shareholder to boost its share price....
...Laurie Yoler, an early Tesla board member, also credits Musk with having the vision to start with a clean sheet of paper and the doggedness to see it through....
...(New York Times) Auto royalty Ferdinand Piëch, who lead Volkswagen for more than a decade, has died at the age of 82....
...Identified by reader Mr Dice, this seems to be Bloom Energy, a clean energy unicorn that IPO'd on the Nasdaq in July, raising $240m....
...GlaxoSmithKline, on the other hand, has advanced its anti-corruption initiatives after a bribery scandal in China forced a clean-up at the company, says Ms Schaik....
...In fact, as its full-year results underlined, Standard Life’s leading position in the income drawdown market means it could clean up when those changes come into effect in April....
...“The thing I’m most proud of [in business] is what usually takes five to 10 years – building a new business from a clean sheet.”...
...With 16 per cent of the pie by that year, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan had managed to win brand recognition, clean reputations, and experience – gaining credibility and spreading it down to smaller peers....
...Both platinum and palladium are used in auto-catalysts to clean up car exhaust emissions. Demand is therefore similar as it is strongly linked to the car industry....
...In January, Better Place raised $350m in one of the biggest venture capital financings ever for a “clean tech” company....
...Last November the company announced its first contract with Japan’s Sumitomo and an unnamed Asian auto manufacturer....
...Clean-vehicle technology offers carmakers the same nerve-wracking mix of risk and opportunity....
...First, an engineering degree at Aberdeen. Then a year of industrial design at Glasgow School of Art....
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