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...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice named former Legrand SA chairman and chief Gilles Schnepp as a new operating adviser....
...Brian Cornell, chief executive, said the crisis would put “near-term pressure on our profitability”....
...One of the few exceptions to the red ink was Best Buy, whose shares rose 2.1 per cent, as the electronics retailer’s results gave investors further confidence that it is successfully weathering Amazon’s...
...Spreads also widened for the CDS tracking the debt of electronics retailer Best Buy, Simon Properties, the biggest US mall operator, and discount chain Target....
...Two particular areas of difficulty for Target this quarter were electronics and food....
...Cornell leases Queen’s technology, developed by Polycom, a California-based supplier of video-conferencing equipment....
...Unilever has a history of promoting Indians, with Vindi Banga – now an operating partner at Clayton Dubilier & Rice – having held many senior positions....
...Long-time China watcher Eswar Prasad at Cornell University notes that as China’s labour costs rise, other producers elsewhere in the world will take over. This is already happening....
...Mr Banga, who will join the M&S board led by Robert Swannell in September, is an operating partner at Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the US private equity group....
...private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice....
...To speed up decision-making, Mr Banga has given lower-level employees more authority to negotiate contracts and has created a new division to better compete with electronic payment systems such as PayPal...
...It is “pulling along Asian economies as well as a number of commodity-producing emerging markets and advanced economies”, says Professor Eswar Prasad of Cornell University....
...Electronics retailer RadioShack added 0.2 per cent to $23.36 on speculation that the company was preparing to sell itself....
...Company: Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Education and career: Holds a BSc in accounting & finance at the University of Warwick, UK, MBA in strategic management at the University of Bradford, UK and MSc in electronic...
...The authorities are also believed to be seeking electronic communications. However, the breadth of the request suggests that the authorities may take a long time to narrow the focus of the probe....
...Specialists said Rentokil was a more digestible target after Friday’s sale of its electronic security business to United Technologies for £595m....
...Mr Cohen has a Master of Science degree from Cornell University....
...and media companies have been asked to think about in a survey commissioned by Gensler, the US firm of architects that designed the interior of the new London Stock Exchange and GCHQ, the UK government’s electronic...
...But Clayton Dubilier & Rice, which often invests in underperforming units and in 1991 bought Lexmark, IBM's printing unit, is not interested, insiders say....
...“I had always worked in electronics factories in Tijuana, and I wanted something different, something safer, even if I had to carry boxes in a warehouse,” says Mr Reyes....
...There is Cornell University’s Joan and Sanford I....
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