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...Hotel Chocolat last year announced the closure of its US stores after heavy losses and wrote off its investment in a Japanese joint venture. The company has since agreed a new joint venture in Japan....
...In duelling lawsuits, Cheniere demanded repayment of the $46mn that Houston had used to buy the land, while Houston’s company sought damages from Cheniere for walking away from their joint venture....
...Hotel Chocolat shares fell last year when it announced that it was closing all of its US stores and placing its Japanese joint venture into civil rehabilitation protection....
...It has four locations in the US and five in Japan, which are run as joint ventures. It also has a franchise business in Denmark, which it has recently expanded to Sweden....
...New York-based LiveKindly has snapped up Iceland’s meat alternative brand, No Meat, while Beyond Meat, a listed plant alternatives company, has formed a joint venture with PepsiCo....
...venture with Volvo to develop hydrogen trucks while shelving its ill-fated hydrogen car project....
...In the latest quarter divestments totalled $2bn, including the sale of the Caesar-Tonga asset in the US Gulf of Mexico to Delek Group and its share in the Saudi Sasref refinery joint venture to Saudi Aramco...
...Thanks to the strong performance of its UK business, Hotel Chocolat said it had “cautiously” opened a joint venture in Japan and a new shop in New York....
...Nevertheless, the new generation of projects led by Woodside, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips are not without risk, as many of them face joint venture, environmental, engineering and sub-surface challenges...
...In part to counter this, late last year GSK chief executive Emma Walmsley unveiled plans to split the group into two, creating a new £9.8bn consumer health business through a joint venture with US rival...
...Since July, Hotel Chocolat has launched three international ventures: a Scandinavian franchise, a joint venture in Japan and a new store in the US, and said it planned to open further stores in Japan and...
...The former chief executive of Centrica, the utility, wants to build his new venture, Neptune Energy, into the next BG Group....
...Repsol’s strategy has seen it invest in a network of rapid charge points for electric cars; set up a joint venture called Wible in Madrid with South Korea’s Kia Motors for a fleet of 500 hybrid vehicles;...
...The holding stems from a 2012 deal under which Rosneft acquired BP’s stake in the TNK-BP Russian joint-venture....
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...Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell its 50 per cent stake in a Saudi Arabian petrochemicals joint venture for $820m, the latest in a series of disposals aimed at reducing debts and streamlining the Anglo-Dutch...
...It has also completed the $1.4bn exit from its Japanese refining joint venture, Showa Shell and is closing in on asset sales in the North Sea and Gabon....
...Athabasca, which has a production capacity of 225,000 barrels of oil a day, is a joint venture between Shell, Chevron and Marathon’s Canadian unit....
...Shell said on Tuesday it is due to receive $2.2bn from Saudi Aramco as part of the break-up of Motiva Enterprises, their US joint venture, with the Saudi company then taking full ownership of the Port Arthur...
...The latest disposal came on Sunday with the $820m sale of Shell’s stake in a Saudi Arabian petrochemicals joint venture to Saudi Basic Industries....
...Royal Dutch Shell has completed the $1.4bn exit from its Japanese refining joint venture in a step forward for its $30bn asset disposal programme....
...The Anglo-Dutch energy group announced on Monday that it had completed the $1.4bn exit from its Japanese refining joint venture, Showa Shell, locking in an important part of the $5bn of divestments agreed...
...It will be headed by Angus Michie, chairman of the group’s St Edward business — a joint venture with the Prudential insurance company that focuses on high-end luxury homes, including a flagship development...
...The move follows the move in the Netherlands to create a 50:50 joint venture with Liberty Global....
...Last week it completed the $1.4bn exit from its Showa Shell refining joint venture in Japan and agreed to divest downstream fuel businesses in Australia and Africa for a combined $500m....
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