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...Amy Liu is unsure whether she should trade in her five-year-old electric sport utility vehicle for a newer model with a longer range or wait a bit longer....
...Rafael Marques de Morais, Social activism The Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais has gambled life and liberty to expose corruption....
...Nissan announced last year it would resurrect its Datsun marque to target emerging markets, going on sale first in India....
...United Spirits, his group’s liquor arm, spent $857m to buy Whyte & Mackay, Scotland’s fourth largest whisky maker, not for the prestige of owning a global marque, but because the chairman sensed “a serious...
...“Oldsmobile used to be a prestigious brand,” he points out, referring to one of the General Motors marques that had value in the past but is no more....
...known outside the auto industry, Roots has quietly integrated into the global economy over the past 15 years or so, supplying both leading Indian vehicle makers such as Mahindra & Mahindra, and foreign marques...
...The stakes are high for Tata, which also produces UK marques Land Rover and Jaguar, as it needs to reassure investors by quickly bouncing back from its disappointment in West Bengal....
...Tata Motors of India on Wednesday said it would raise about $1.8bn to fund the landmark purchase of UK luxury marques Jaguar and Land Rover through three rights issues, even as it warned of a gloomy outlook...
...Tata Motors’ hands will be tied on cutting costs at the two marques because of commitments to retain workers and the need to continue sourcing important components from Ford....
...The language in the statement from Tata Motors on Wednesday, announcing its takeover of Ford’s luxury marques, was celebratory....
...Ratan Tata said on Wednesday that his Tata Group would make a better owner of Jaguar and Land Rover than Ford, dismissing concerns that the lower-end carmaker would add little value to the luxury marques...
...For a company considering what the market believes could be a transformational deal – the potential $2bn acquisition of Ford’s Jaguar and Land Rover marques – Tata Motors’ house is looking in less than perfect...
...steelmaker Corus and Tetley Tea – has emerged alongside rival Indian producer Mahindra & Mahindra and US buy-out group One Equity Partners on Ford Motor’s shortlist to buy Jaguar and Land Rover, its UK luxury marques...
...Mahindra & Mahindra is conducting due diligence on Jaguar and Land Rover, put up for sale by Ford, but its preference is for the UK utility vehicle-maker rather than the luxury marque, say people close to...
...Revelations that Tata Motors was planning to target marques such as Jaguar and Land Rover, which together lost £159m ($318m) before tax last year at their core UK operations, have left even long-standing...
...Amy Auster, head of international economics at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, warns against the fixation on China in Australia....
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