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...In 2014, the artist Kara Walker’s huge installation “A Subtlety”, a massive sugar sphinx with an African-American head, haunted the refinery with its evocations of sugarcane plantations, enslavement and...
...Gap Inc is currently in crisis. Its brands — Old Navy, Gap, Athleta and Banana Republic — face weak or falling sales and the business is lossmaking....
...Enter Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), a Mexican-American man who started working as a janitor at Frito-Lay in the 1970s....
...The Australian government has identified lithium as one of the key elements in its critical minerals strategy, which includes an attempt to move up the value chain by establishing refining operations in...
...Americans for Prosperity, the US advocacy group backed by Charles Koch, recently indicated it would oppose Trump’s bid to secure re-election in 2024....
...Those include failing to block a tie-up between UnitedHealth Group, a healthcare company, and technology group Change Healthcare, as well as the acquisition of Imperial Sugar by US Sugar....
...Wegovy and Mounjaro are known as glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists, which were developed to help control blood sugar levels in people with diabetes....
...Taobao was the pioneer, launching shopping-channel style livestreaming in 2016, but all its main competitors were copying and refining the idea when lockdowns arrived....
...The Every Company is refining its production of animal-free egg white and protein supplements....
...The measures represent “the most crucial pivot since Beijing significantly tightened financing of the property sector,” economists at Nomura Holdings Inc. wrote Monday in a note....
...Not only have companies invested in extracting, refining and selling fossil fuels, but people have come to like owning and driving cars....
...While a fraction of petroleum refining output, it would be up from 600m gallons at the end of 2020....
...Tech tools — Blood-sugar tracking buzz Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), commonly used by diabetics, track glucose rates in real time via a microneedle “installed” into the upper arm....
...Robbie’s Quinn, a psychopath on a sugar rush in a Valentino red dress, is back and even more forward in the mix thanks to the success of her own vehicle, last year’s surprisingly charming Birds of Prey....
...Dundon had become a Texas billionaire providing subprime auto loans to Americans, eventually selling his business to Santander....
...The transaction is the latest in a string of North American oil mergers as operators seek to consolidate and cut costs....
...If it succeeds in strengthening the group, it will help Japan Inc find its way back into the global race to deploy 5G networks and future mobile technologies....
...Nestlé is selling its languishing North American water business, while Danone is reviewing both product lines and brands....
...Graphite occurs naturally and can be synthesised as a byproduct of petroleum refining....
...Americans are thirsty for energy drinks. So are big beverage companies. PepsiCo is splashing out $3.85bn to buy Rockstar Energy Beverages....
...Ben Lerer, chief executive of GroupNine Media, owner of the Thrillist and Pop Sugar websites, puts it plainly. “We got the crap kicked out of us,” he says. “This sucks. Let’s not sugar coat it....
...He also stood down as chairman of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which funds programmes in support of free markets....
...Fifty years ago it was all the rage for American business icons to be driven by fear of microbes into becoming reclusive and now it’s the opposite: Elon R Musk, Tesla Inc: [T]his is the time to think about...
...The drop in inventories came amid weaker refining activity and a surge of 0.7m barrels a day in implied demand....
...“They’re less convinced by the functional-based arguments that food companies are used to making, like less sugar or fewer calories....
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