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...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...The Reimann wealth dates back to when Johann A Benckiser founded Benckiser, a chemicals business in 1823....
...These included acquisitions such as Ewos, a Norwegian salmon feed company, and Diamond V, a manufacturer of yeast culture products to aid animal health....
...He says that if he had the chance to sell his inventory — mainly diamond rings — at a discount of up to 20 per cent of their value, he would “leave in one second”....
...US computer company began trialling its version of the technology with a small number of companies late last year....
...In the middle, the company has further debt at intermediate holding companies — such as “Altice Luxembourg”, an entity that sits above the company’s French and international businesses and has €6.2bn of...
...Diamond V manufactures natural yeast culture products that help animal health....
...Schiller joins from Goldman, where he was a Frankfurt based managing partner and also the bank’s global co-head of chemicals. He will remain based in Frankfurt....
...In perhaps the most notorious instance, oil driller Kerr-McGee separated its chemicals unit to form Tronox in 2004....
...Mr Franklin has recently expanded his interests into speciality chemicals — a shell company he launched 18 months ago has closed or is closing a trio of deals worth $6.7bn....
...Bob Diamond, the then head of Barclays’ investment bank, also turned to Mr Klein to advise him on his acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ US operations....
...Bob Diamond would dispute this: he remains proud of the global investment bank that he more than anyone else built up....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Ben van Beurden, a Dutch chemical engineer who heads the unglamorous downstream division, has been appointed chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell....
...It has found rough diamonds in a shrinking European private equity market, when others struggled to put money to work....
...Rio Tinto gained 2.1 per cent to £35.75 amid speculation of news shortly on the potential flotation of its diamonds division....
...Nails Inc, a London-based company established in 1999, is among the more colourful winners: it set out to establish a chain of branded nail bar concessions in leading department stores with high footfall...
...Within an hour, they are carrying out tagged bags containing hundreds of blister packs of light blue diamond-shaped pills....
...This follows the suspension by Formula One of plans to float in the city state and the failure of Graff Diamonds’ initial public offering in Hong Kong....
...“Our production processes are be better done on a chemical complex,” Mr Brown said. But the decision will depend partly on their chosen level of production....
...DuPont blamed weak demand as customers run down inventories rather than purchase new products, which knocked rival Dow Chemicals , whose shares fell 2.3 per cent to $27.10....
...But as Petra notes, none of these companies can be invested in directly in order to gain such direct exposure to diamond mining....
...Diamond workers have been seeking a 15 per cent increase from De Beers – three times the inflation rate....
...A similar strike began at the start of the week in the coal sector, causing Anglo American to halt production at its coal mines in the country, while diamond workers at De Beers, the world’s largest diamond...
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
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