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...Finnish brand Vaarnii has several pieces of their wooden furniture there, created in local, much-maligned pine....
...TCI, Millennium, Lone Pine and Bridgewater declined to comment. laurence.fletcher@ft.com...
...But it has since collapsed to less than $25, hit by product recalls and missed targets....
...If the art world is anything to go by, then we’ll see a lot of fresh basils and rich, forest pines — a result of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s blockbuster exhibition at the Tate, which will, at some point, travel...
...A recent push into offering environment, social and governance-related products is yet to capture much investor interest....
...Back in 2013, McCabe sold a 50 per cent stake in the club for £1 to UTB LLC — a company controlled by Prince Abdullah, a member of the Saudi royal family....
...Variable annuities are tax-advantaged retirement savings products in the US....
...Ed Breen, who is now chief executive of DowDuPont having previously had the same role at DuPont, said a crucial factor for the new speciality chemicals group would be the “breadth of products” that it would...
...Its new plans were welcomed by Trian, one of the activist funds that had been pressing for a shake up at DuPont since taking a stake in 2014....
...It said too many businesses could be left “stranded” within the materials company and should instead be with the specialty products company....
...Third Point is also agitating for a change to plans at Dow Chemical and DuPont, which are preparing the restructuring that will follow their merger....
...Dow and DuPont announced a $130bn merger last year, while ChemChina is pursuing a $44bn takeover of Syngenta....
...Back in 2007, global agricultural group Monsanto was intent on gobbling up Delta & Pine Land Company, a large cotton seed producer....
...DuPont shareholders will receive 1.282 shares in DowDuPont for each DuPont share....
...DuPont and Dow Chemical, the two largest companies in the sector, have been attacked by activist investors calling for them to be broken up....
...Last month eBay announced it would spin off its PayPal unit after pressure from Carl Icahn, while DuPont heeded Nelson Peltz’s calls that it should split into two....
...He points to “fast fashion” brands such as Zara, H&M and Topshop “on every street corner, offering great product and great prices”....
...In the heated battle in the US over mandatory labelling of food products containing genetically modified ingredients, the big food and agricultural companies so far have managed to log victories in high...
...Previous US investments include Axalta Coating Systems, (the former DuPont Performance Coatings), Booz Allen Hamilton and Pharmaceutical Product Development....
...Carlyle is also the lead bidder to acquire DuPont’s performance coatings business, according to people familiar with the matter. That deal could be announced as early as this week....
...BP is in a joint venture with DuPont to produce biobutanol, and will use some of it during in the London Olympics....
...It could be huge,” said Avery Putter, a broker with Pine Point Commodities on the ICE floor....
...A group of private equity firms including Colony Capital, run by Tom Barrack; General Atlantic; Pine Bridge and GI Partners owns 60 per cent of the bank’s shares....
...These investors, such as Atticus Capital and Lone Pine in the US and The Children’s Investment Fund in London, have been among the prime beneficiaries because the relatively young category has ranked as...
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