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...In the 1990s and early 2000s, Weill engineered a series of megamergers in an attempt to realise his vision for a financial supermarket that could offer consumers and corporations a one-stop shop for banking...
...Ongoing inflation and supply chain blockages forced Revlon to succumb to liquidity and leverage problems common to financially over-engineered businesses....
...The exodus comes as Discovery prepares to take over WarnerMedia after its chief executive David Zaslav engineered the media coup of the decade....
...In such a scenario somebody eventually has to pay for the engineered stability....
...“Our training goes way beyond just selecting stocks,” to embrace portfolio “customisation”, building specially engineered portfolios for each family,” he says....
...The most recent edition of INC. Magazine, however, offers even more insight into the breadth of the issue....
...The others included 21st Century Fox and Time Inc. Tiffany, the jeweller after which CBS was once dubbed “the Tiffany network” for the classiness of its fare, lies over on Fifth Avenue....
...Arconic named Eric Roegner its head of engineered products and solutions, succeeding Karl Tragl who will leave the company....
...US earnings season unofficially kicks off on Tuesday, when aluminium maker Alcoa reports results....
...In fairness to Alcoa, the aluminium titan has been too occupied with its capital structure to be clever about names....
...Alcoa said that it was cutting 1,000 jobs from the engineered products division, and was considering the cutting of 1,000 more....
...At the heart of the dispute is the structure of Alcoa’s break-up....
...This is because of our unique, beautiful corporate structure, which has located the intellectual property for Car at our European automotive HQ on the island of Sark....
...Sharks and rays usually reveal their ages through the calcium deposits laid down each year in hard structures such as fins, but Greenland sharks, the largest fish in northern waters, have no such structures...
...For EDF, the deal is a chance to show that its European Pressurized Reactor technology — seen by critics as too expensive and overly engineered — can be built on time and to budget....
...Last month, Alcoa announced a plan to split in two, separating its commodity mining, alumina refining and primary aluminium business off from the specialist metals and engineered products operations....
...And with the help of $5bn worth of recent acquisitions, its rolled and engineered products units make components that go into cars and jet engines....
...“We took two years to do the transformation to SoftBank 2.0, which meant cleaner structures, better governance and some light processes that would outlast individuals,” Mr Arora said by email after his resignation...
...Producers shape primary aluminium into basic structures to avoid export duty and claim the rebate before remelting them back into primary metal outside the country....
...After-tax operating income in the engineered products and solutions business — which produces manufactured components — rose 1 per cent to $191m, on sales up 17 per cent to $1.7bn....
...Related links: 21 Inc and the plan to kill the free internet – FT Alphaville When a man cannot choose, is he still a consumer?...
...There was a 6 per cent increase to $767m in after-tax operating income from engineered products and solutions, which tends to have more stable earnings....
...But Tupperware is engineered so that consultants’ room to experiment and fail is quite limited....
...Hampered by continued weak aluminium prices, Alcoa has steadily shifted away from commodity seller towards engineered product manufacturer....
...After-tax operating profits at the “downstream” engineered products business rose 6 per cent to $204m....
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