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...US fertiliser group CF Industries said it would permanently shut its Ince plant in Cheshire and restructure its UK operations, leading to the loss of about 350 jobs....
...The agreement enables US fertiliser group CF Industries to continue to supply industrial gas companies BOC, Nippon Gases and Air Liquide even while global gas prices remain high, said the Department for...
...I was unaware of the [CO2] situation,” the US group’s chief executive Tony Will told the Financial Times....
...She served as the group company secretary of Rio Tinto from 2013 to 2016. Before Rio Tinto, she worked at AMEC, Cobham and held lead legal roles at Corus Group and The BOC Group....
...That has put a huge class of borrowers at risk from surges in unemployment, higher interest rates and a “sharp correction” in prices, said the BoC....
...In a previous stint as chairman, he turned the company around, selling non-core units and acquiring formerly British BOC. Profitability improved dramatically....
...He pointed out that when Pennsylvania-based Air Products & Chemicals attempted to purchase its then-UK rival BOC Group in 2000, US regulators threatened to block the deal and demanded there must be four...
...According to a rumour circulating among Hong Kong bankers, the Asian business of ANZ Banking Group had shrunk so much it was being run through the Australian bank’s New Zealand unit....
...However TD says that assuming oil production facilities are unharmed by the wildfire, the BoC will see this as a transitory shock and will hold back from another rate cut....
...During Mr Xiao’s decade-long tenure as BoC chairman, the group raised $13.7bn through initial public offerings on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges....
...sponsors such as lawyers R Costings, skips business Mick George and digital mobile radio maker Sepura bought advertising time alongside large betting companies William Hill and 888, and industrial gas giant BOC...
...Boston Consulting Group estimates that 1bn people in Asia will have annual earnings of at least $15,000 by 2030, and will therefore be able to afford to fly....
...Research from WPP, the advertising and public relations company, shows that a group of “Top 10″ Chinese brands – ranked by what they call “brand contribution” – sharply outperformed market indices (see chart...
...“The BoC’s policy statement revealed that it is more concerned than before about persistently low inflation,” said David Madani at Capital Economics....
...This helped to cover the cost of the £8.2bn purchase earlier in 2006 of BOC, the British gases company that was one of Linde’s main competitors....
...Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Japan’s largest bank by assets, holds $3.2bn in Italian government bonds and $900m worth of Spanish government bonds; while Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has a mere $3m...
...warn on tightening * BoC net income growth slows, misses estimates * India Inc puts up worst profit growth in 5 quarters * Fiat chairman in China talks * Argentina orders miners to repatriate revenue *...
...warn on tightening * BoC net income growth slows, misses estimates * India Inc puts up worst profit growth in 5 quarters * Fiat chairman in China talks * BYD a victim of its own grand predictions *...
...The 69-year-old former chief executive of industrial gases group BOC, until it was bought by Germany’s Linde, will know the ropes as he has been a director of Schlumberger since 2003....
...In a sign of growing international acceptance of the Chinese currency, Sony, the Japanese consumer electronics group, announced on Tuesday that it had established a currency trading operation in Hong Kong...
...Edwards, part of the BOC gases group when it was bought by Germany’s Linde in 2006, is the world’s leading supplier of vacuum technology for industrial and scientific applications, such as semiconductor...
...Renewed interest in acquiring overseas institutions would mark a sharp policy change in Beijing, which virtually banned offshore mergers and acquisitions by Chinese financial groups as the crisis broke....
...BOC Hong Kong rose 1.8 per cent to HK$19.10 and was the day’s most active stock, while China Life Insuranceadded 1.5 per cent to HK$33.65. The Hang Seng index rose 0.9 per cent to 20,264.59....
...HSBC jumped 2.6 per cent to HK$80.90, while BOC Hong Kong, part of Bank of China, added 3 per cent to HK$19.82. The Hang Seng index climbed 0.6 per cent to 21,091.18, its best finish since April 30....
...In 2006, for example, during Linde’s €12bn takeover of BOC Group, the UK gases company asked Deutsche to step aside as its broker because of the German bank’s multiple roles in the transaction....
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