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...Woods is still seen as a towering figure in the sport of golf. He joined the PGA Tour policy board in August amid the game’s ongoing negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund....
...The California-based driller is facing operational headaches at two of the company’s most important assets in Kazakhstan and the US — as well as investor concerns over its $53bn deal to buy Hess....
...Ogulensi will join BlackRock’s board and plans to step down as lead independent director of Goldman Sachs....
...Its Semi haulage truck and Roadster sports car are not yet in production, and the anticipated lower-price Model 2 is not expected before 2026....
...It took nearly eight years to sell the first 1mn battery-powered cars, trucks and vans in the US, a milestone hit in 2018....
...Rumayyan, who will also sit on the PGA Tour’s policy board, said golf was integral to Saudi ambitions in sport, as Riyadh pushes through reforms intended to make the kingdom less dependent on oil....
...Chapek defended the board, saying that the average tenure was four years and has a broad “range of skillsets”....
...He had just landed in Los Angeles ready to begin his senior year at the University of Southern California when Antoine got a hold of him....
...She is a former Royal Air Force engineer whose father once worked at Dormobile, the UK camper-van company....
...Manheim will sell the gas-powered trade-ins for Rivian’s customers, and Rivian is in the process of building 100,000 electric delivery vans for Amazon....
...According to a statement released on Thursday, Schwab also raised concerns internally that delivery targets for Rivian’s electric vehicles, which include a pick-up truck and sport utility vehicle, were “...
...But its prospects have been burnished by an order from Amazon for 100,000 electric delivery vans by 2025, and by the belief that Rivian’s stylish pick-up trucks may attract the same fervour as Tesla’s sports...
...Before the Covid supply chain crisis, a bike would be replaced if it had the “slightest scratch on it”, a van driver tells the FT....
...Rivian is also producing a sport utility vehicle and a pick-up truck, both to be manufactured at the company’s plant in Normal, Illinois....
...He was born on November 2 1952, and grew up in Van Nuys, a nondescript neighbourhood in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley....
...California-based EA’s cash offer of 604p per share was announced on Monday morning, after talks between the companies were first reported on Sunday....
...Even with Indonesia nominally on board, AATHP is a manifest failure. A road map on relevant regional co-operation was adopted in 2016....
...Although its parent company, Interpublic Group Cos Inc, installed female leadership at the Martin Agency, IPG’s board remained the same....
...The board overseeing Norway’s $1.2tn oil fund has a tough job on its hands: finding someone to fill the country’s “most important job”....
...That was one of the findings of the National Transportation Safety Board’s report published last week into the fatal crash of a semi-automated Tesla in California in 2018....
...Job moves Heineken’s Europe president Stefan Orlowski has quit after missing out on the top job to Asia Pacific chief Dolf van den Brink, who will replace current chief executive Jean-François van Boxmeer...
...Chief executive Elon Musk predicted the new Model Y sport utility vehicle — which is due to launch next summer — could outsell its combined current range of vehicles....
...SoftBank founder predicts WeWork V for Victory Masayoshi Son admitted today he had turned a “blind eye” to governance lapses at WeWork but promised a “sharp V-shaped recovery” for the shared offices provider...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 31, 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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