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Second wave of digitalisation is creating cost savings and enhancing productivity
...As a result, heavy investment into the supply chain made sense until those prices crashed in 2009 and never recovered – they are just $18/kg today....
Family-controlled German media group plans to list on the stock market
Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller has been president and chairwoman of Trumpf since her father stepped down in 2005
...The cost reduction has been driven by a 93 per cent fall in the price of silicon used to make the panels – from $475/kg to $33/kg in just three years – and the extraordinary expansion of the industry in...
Raw materials erode margins as customers hold back
China and Germany: The world’s leading exporter is competing the arena of its biggest European rival
...“If you think about a company like SAP with such a mature brand and a well-founded marketplace growing at that rate, it speaks to the depth of the turnaround,” says Bill McDermott, co-chief executive....
Bertelsmann’s Reinhard Mohn dies aged 88
...New Energy Finance, a consultancy, says the spot silicon price has fallen sharply, from $136 per kg in January 2009 to $73 per kg in early May....
...For Germany’s three-pillar banking sector, split between commercial, public and co-operative banks, it took a crisis to spark action....
...diversifications; pursuing its traditional commitment to technological innovation but making research and development more cost effective; and adopting a more customer-friendly approach involving much closer co-operation...
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