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...They also stock made-in-NC products they really rate, such as Raleigh’s Escazú chocolate (from $7) and Burlington’s Haand ceramics (from $30 for a mug)....
...Formerly president of Guggenheim Partners, Mr Boehly is an investor in MRC and controls DCP, the producer of live awards shows....
...NC KMG controls about 65 per cent of the voting rights in KMG EP....
...The $39bn purchase of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Berkshire’s largest ever, is a prime example....
...US Class I railways – the biggest operators – moved 88,026 carloads of crude oil in the first six months of 2012, against 65,751 in the whole of 2011, according to the Association of American Railroads....
...Customers of BNSF, the railway that handles 44 per cent of the region’s oil exports, have built terminals on its routes through the region capable of handling 1m barrels of oil a day....
...the Burlington hotel in Dublin....
...After all, the genesis of many hedge fund strategies was the reorganisation of US railways in the 1930s. Then there was the “Burlington Arbitrage” of 1988....
...S&P decided to move now because few other large companies other than Burlington are scheduled to be taken out of the index later this year, David Blitzer, chairman of S&P’s index committee, told the Wall...
...S&P’s announcement followed Berkshire’s 50-for-1 split last week of the B shares, to make it easier for Burlington Northern shareholders to exchange their stock for Berkshire stock in a tax-free swap, rather...
...Even Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, turned to veteran banker Roger Altman’s boutique firm Evercore, along with Goldman Sachs, to help him with his $26bn takeover of Burlington Northern Santa Fe...
...In fact, this is what some people were saying back in December 2008: “It’s the year-end factor,” said Chris Ahrens, an interest-rate strategist in Greenwich, Connecticut, at UBS Securities LLC, one of the...
...Analysts have focused most intently on Conoco’s acquisition of Burlington Resources for $33.9bn in 2005, which Mr McMahon notes came in at a cost of $17 a barrel of proved reserves when the industry enterprise...
...Quito newspaper El Comercio on May 14 reported that two – Perenco of France and Burlington Resources of the US – had gone to the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute, joining...
...Gas-centred deals such as Chevron’s 2005 acquisition of Unocal, ConocoPhillips’ 2006 purchase of Burlington Resources and Eni’s buy-out of Dominion’s assets in the Gulf of Mexico last year underline the...
...The recovery in the fortunes of the largest North American railroads has been marked by enthusiasm from three different types of investors - the very long-term, those adept at forcing a quick change of tack...
...However, its last big deal, buying gas producer Burlington Resources for $36bn, was struck in December 2005, just as the US gas price hit $15 per million British thermal units....
...ConocoPhillips on Wednesday reported an 8 per cent increase, helped by the acquisition of Burlington Resources, but its net income per share was down 9 per cent....
...; Baxter International; Allstate; Travelers/ EMC; Devon Energy; Alcoa; Colgate-Palmolive; Fedex; Monsanto; Franklin Resources; Halliburton; Capital One; Burlington Northern Santa Fe; Kimberley-Clark; Union...
...After the $37bn acquisition of Burlington Resources last year, the world’s biggest energy sector deal in the past five years, ConocoPhillips indicated it would not be making any more large acquisitions....
...The company said that it had pumped 97 per cent of its net income in the year to date back into developing its refining business, excluding its acquisition of Burlington in the first quarter....
...Even the company itself now accepts that it paid a full price for Burlington Resources, not least in the light of the recent decline in natural gas prices....
...OCM adds to WL Ross’ textiles business, launched in 2003 through the acquisition of Cone Mills and Burlington Industries, which created International Textile Group (ITG), one of the largest textile companies...
...ConocoPhillips, the US oil and gas group, sold $3bn of bonds on Thursday, replacing part of the bridge finance raised for its $36bn purchase of Burlington Resources, which closed last week....
...CSFB estimates Burlington is worth about $15 per barrel of oil equivalent. Conoco, after stripping out refining and its Lukoil stake, trades on about half that....
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