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...“We always say that we are builders, not holders,” Sawiris said. “We build assets....
...“Essentially, we’re offering companies an investor base uncorrelated with other markets.”...
...With Athene now accounting for roughly one-third of Apollo’s asset base, a divorce was inconceivable....
...The character of the street signs reflects the different builders....
...US shale patch bankruptcies hurt its customer base, and Schlumberger sold its North American fracking unit....
...The three major Chinese carriers’ prudent attitude was well reflected in China Tower, a jointly invested Hong Kong-listed tower builder....
...Matthew Hare founded Gigaclear in 2010 as a fibre network builder targeting rural areas....
...Mr Gosper argues that rugby union’s new owners must be asset builders, not asset strippers....
...In the 1880s, builders capped the Washington Monument with a small pyramid of aluminium, then a rare metal. Today, the base metal is used in cars, planes and cans....
...Now he has turned up at roofing and builders’ merchant SIG, where Meinie Oldersma has left the chief executive’s office. The finance director has gone, too....
...Jardines has long exhibited wariness toward China’s reach into its home base....
...Steve Morgan, who founded builder Redrow in 1974, returned to run the business nearly a decade ago and took the group to new heights. The shares are six times what they were in 2009....
...It is in talks with several rig builders, including Samsung Heavy Industries, about delaying delivery of two new rigs after reaching a similar deal with Cosco over one vessel....
...Carillion manages hospitals and ministry of defence military bases, and has just won a contract to help build the High Speed 2 rail link to Birmingham....
...beaches in the north of Rio de Janeiro state with a pier stretching nearly three kilometres into the south Atlantic Ocean, it already serves as a port for iron ore shipments to China and as a logistics base...
...The China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), which ranked 151st in the 2016 Fortune Global 2000 of leading companies, typifies the global ambitions that are animating the big Chinese builders....
...Modern renewables, in contrast, are growing from a tiny base and are often less dependable than dirtier power generators that do not rely on the weather....
...But there are many who doubt that the 56-year-old Mr Ambani, known more as a dealmaker than a builder of businesses, can pull it off. “Defence is the ultimate big boy’s game,” says one banker....
...Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins gained 2.9 per cent to £19.92 after Credit Suisse turned positive....
...It would be like a shipping company buying a ship builder. It doesn’t make much sense. At times like this, it is always good to focus on what you’re doing best.”...
...For companies such as Japan Steel Works (JSW), a specialist builder of reactor cores and a victim of some of the highest electricity price increases in the country, the restart was especially sweet....
...The FTSE 100 company, which hires out kit to builders here and in the US, produced record pre-tax profits of £490m in the year to April....
...Interest costs look set to rise, with inflation expected to put pressure on the Bank of England to lift base rates towards the year-end....
...Investors are increasingly gravitating towards companies deemed better equipped for the slowdown — typically larger, state-backed builders....
...It generates 84 per cent of sales and 94 per cent of profit in the US, where builders are renting rather than buying equipment....
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