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...Smart reads House of cards The Sydney installation of the billionaire businessman James Packer’s Crown Resorts empire was meant to be an oasis for Asian high-rollers....
...Elkann will not be assuming the crown of master dealmaker for now. Does he have another trick up his sleeves?...
...In 1999, Renault rescued Nissan from collapse, stepping in with funding, crucially, where Japan Inc had opted to pass. Where was the cosiness?...
...One thing to start: Wynn Resorts, the Las Vegas-based casino company, has approached Australian rival Crown Resorts with a $7.1bn offer, as consolidation talks in the gambling industry intensify....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 27. ©2017 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...RatPac-Dune signed a multi-year co-financing arrangement with Warner Bros in 2013 for up to 75 movies, that have included: Gravity, The Lego Movie, American Sniper, Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Kong...
...After the summer had passed, Mr Son was off to Riyadh to meet Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s powerful deputy crown prince, to launch a $100bn technology fund....
...Matching targets set by Nissan and Daimler, Toyota said it planned to commercialise cars that could drive themselves on highways by about 2020....
...Infiniti, Nissan’s luxury brand, separately revealed a concept for a high-performance premium sedan known as the Q60....
...Investors instead targeted their disapproval of the whale affair at the bank’s independent directors in a vote against the re-election of Ellen Futter, David Cote and James Crown; they received 53.1%, 59.3%...
...While Évora also makes plastic lids as well as aluminium cans in a joint venture with US-based Crown Holdings, nappies is where Enck sees the most room for international expansion....
...A new version of its CR-V small SUV begins production in September, and it plans to renew its small Jazz at a later date....
...Renault and its partner Nissan announced in April a partnership with Daimler allowing the three companies to pool costs in small and electric cars, vans, and other technologies....
...Streaking ahead are the workhorses of Japan Inc – Nissan Motor, up 93 per cent in the year to date, and Sharp , 72 per cent (never mind that both lost money last year) – and a brace of trading houses....
...Nidec has as well, and as a result is seeing a V-shaped recovery.” On the other hand Sony’s measures are rather vague despite the large headline number.”...
...Nissan Motor rose by 9.1 per cent to Y300 and the country’s biggest car maker, Toyota, rose by 4.2 per cent to Y3,220....
...The AIG unit is a crown jewel, the leading pan-Asian insurer, which throws off $2bn annual profit....
....; Sapiens International Corporation N.V....
...Mr Nardelli says he has no plans to sell Jeep, which he describes as a “crown jewel” with a brand name as generic as Xerox or Kleenex....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...While Qualcomm pushes its solution in the UK and Japan, the chipmaker faces competition at home where rivals Crown Castle and Hiwire are building DVB-H networks....
...a revival under its new foreign chairman [Sir Howard Stringer], like the one achieved by Nissan, is by no means impossible?...
...Lloyd’s next Wednesday will roll out the carpet for King Harald V of Norway....
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