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...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...One of Torotrak’s most promising gadgets has long been the V-Charge, a smarter version of a turbocharger that took six years to develop....
...Disney did release two hits, with Finding Dory and Captain America: Civil War generating big box office returns....
...The Swedish group’s recall of 29m chests of drawers came after three children died as a result of its furniture toppling on to them over the past two years, write Lindsay Whipp and Richard Milne....
...Bank of America (Finance) 77. Barclays (Finance) 78. Monster Beverage (Consumer Goods) 79. Nvidia (Technology) 80. Ford (Automotive) 81. Total (Oil & Gas) 82....
...In the 1980s more than 650 companies were part of the group. Its political pull was commensurately huge....
...Like Rio, Mr Glasenberg’s group this week promised big cuts in its capital spending plans in response to the poor commodities outlook....
...These include Vale of Brazil, London-listed Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Anglo American, as well as Japanese trading companies such as Mitsui & Co....
...That leaves Tom Albanese of Rio Tinto as the only boss of a big, diverse London-listed miner not headed for the door....
...One extreme, proposed by analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, would carve Anglo into two – a South African and a global business....
...It is hard to think of a time during Cynthia Carroll’s tenure as boss of Anglo American when she was not under pressure....
...Anglo American jumped 4.1 per cent to £19.34 after the resignation of chief executive Cynthia Carroll sparked break-up hopes....
...Cynthia Carroll’s decision to leave Anglo American comes as the mining group faces one of its most turbulent periods since it was founded in 1917 by Ernest Oppenheimer....
...Now with a broad array of assets, Cynthia Carroll, chief executive, can ride the commodity cycle even harder....
...Renault-Nissan is planning to add a second car plant in Brazil amid predictions that Latin America’s largest economy will become the French-Japanese group’s second-largest market after France....
...Minas Rio, the most important mine in the deal, is consuming $1.2bn of Anglo’s planned $6bn capital expenditure for this year. Anglo was criticised for overpaying for Minas Rio....
...It recommends companies such as Volkswagen, Prudential, L’Oréal and Richemont, which have a lot of business with developing countries....
...If Cynthia Carroll, chief executive, seemed especially confident presenting Anglo’s full-year earnings on Friday it was due to her having tangible results to deliver, after a year of scepticism in the market...
...It paid €1bn ($1.4bn, £873m) for the Latin American heavy truck business of Volkswagen, MAN’s main shareholder, a move that catapulted the group into the region’s market lead....
...Chinalco’s move on Rio Tinto stirred nationalistic sentiment in Australia, home to Rio’s best assets....
...Many shareholders, for example, are still furious over Bank of America’s takeover of Merrill Lynch and Lloyds Banking Group’s merger with HBOS....
..., executive vice-presidentSince 2004, previously software and services executive Amanda J Mesler, Logica North America President and CEOSince 2007, previously Sysco vice-president Ann Moore, Time Inc chairman...
...A non-executive director of Johnson Matthey. Cynthia Carroll Joined Anglo American, the mining giant, as chief executive in 2007....
...Porsche said it would stop production at one of its plants for seven days in January, while Volkswagen is considering a three-week suspension at another plant....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
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