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...The number of corporations signing up to long-term LNG contracts “tells you that Germany is going to continue using gas and there is demand” for the fuel, said Gloystein....
...Job moves BASF has appointed Markus Kamieth to take over as chief executive, an executive who’s closely associated with the world’s largest chemical group’s expansion plans in China....
...As a result, many of Germany’s largest corporations would be forced to cut their consumption, most likely by idling production....
...Corporation....
...BASF, Europe’s largest chemicals group, said it would have to downsize “permanently” in Europe because of high energy costs....
...Lining the pockets of shareholders is a total abuse of taxpayer money and executives at these corporations should hang their heads in shame.”...
...Numbers news The share of multinational corporations’ profits squirrelled away to tax havens did not fall after policymakers began to address the issue after 2015, new research finds....
...The law would make corporations responsible for human rights violations, even if they occur at facilities belonging to suppliers or subcontractors....
...As does BASF, the world’s largest chemical’s company, which under its wartime incarnation, IG Farben, manufactured Zyklon B for Nazi gas chambers....
...Berlin last week activated the first step of an emergency plan that in the event of a gas shortage would eventually lead to gas supplies to large corporations being curtailed....
...The 48-year-old tech group’s oldest customers, which include the likes of Siemens, Daimler and BASF, tend to prefer so-called “on-premise” software, which has fallen out of favour with investors....
...Bayer said it stood behind its products while BASF said it was “surprised and disappointed with the jury’s decision”....
...In 2018, the Green parliamentary group launched a business advisory council that features senior executives from the likes of BASF, Munich Re, Thyssenkrupp and Bosch....
...BASF, one of the world’s largest chemical suppliers, said the weakness in oil prices leads to a reduction in raw materials costs and so could “positively impact earnings”....
...In contrast to many big corporations, Ineos runs a lean central office, staffed by just 40 people....
...John Ruggie, a Harvard professor and human rights expert, agrees that “a defensiveness about the role of the corporation in modern society” has contributed to the rethink....
...And I applaud Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, for using his devolved powers to establish a mayoral development corporation, or MDC, in Stockport....
...“Large multinational corporation signs agreement to invest billions of dollars in China petrochemical plant.” Yawn....
...BASF is the laughing third man.”...
...The Trump administration is trying to wrest American corporations back to the US through a series of measures that include steep tariffs on imports, lower corporate taxes and relaxed environmental regulations...
...Most recently, chemicals group BASF said this month that it would merge its Wintershall energy business with another German company DEA, which is owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman....
...US corporations must also accept the democratic control function of the parliament. Monsanto cannot escape this....
...Barely 24 hours have passed since Meredith Corporation and the conservative billionaire Koch brothers agreed to buy Time Inc for $2.8bn but that isn’t stopping the Iowa-based publisher from considering selling...
...If the deal goes ahead, “mega-corporation Bayer would be able to decide virtually single-handedly what is grown in our fields and ends up on our plates” says Molly Scott Cato, a Green MEP who has launched...
...People briefed on the case said they included the Belgian-Brazilian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev, the UK oil group BP, and the German chemicals company BASF....
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