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...A recent big project was Blur’s comeback album The Ballad of Darren....
...Need to know: business General Motors agreed a deal with the UAW union to end the carworkers’ strike, following similar deals struck by Ford and Chrysler owner Stellantis....
...Ford is among those leading brands that have already pledged to go fully electric this decade and have made manufacturing decisions with that target in mind....
...Ford reached a tentative deal with the United Auto Workers union that would raise wages 25 per cent over four years and potentially end a 40-day strike....
...Need to know: business US car workers launched the first strike action against Detroit’s big three of Ford, General Motors and Stellantis in almost a century....
...Ford plans to scale back future investments in China, as the US carmaker’s chief executive warned there was “no guarantee” western carmakers could win against local electric vehicle rivals....
...Vietnamese electric vehicle start-up VinFast is worth more than Ford or GM after shares of the lossmaking company soared on its US stock market debut....
...Competition is intensifying within China too, causing Ford to announce yesterday it would scale back its EV investments in the country....
...increasing competition from Chinese companies such as CATL, the world’s largest maker of electric car batteries, which has licensed its technology for cheaper lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries to Ford...
...London-based jeweller Darren Sherwood, behind brand Mr Sherwood, thinks there has been a “full 360”....
...Ford said it expected to lose $3bn making electric vehicles this year. Columnist Simon Kuper says it’s about time SUVs — whether fuelled by petrol or electricity — are regulated out of existence....
...“Susan is a master networker, organiser and connector – this is her superpower,” says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation....
...Need to know: business Ford is cutting 3,800 jobs across Europe as it pares back its range of models ahead of the switch to electric vehicles....
...“Anyone who was almost [about to buy an EV] has thought they have five more years now,” said Darren Ardron, who runs the Perrys dealership group in the UK....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway surged to a record high this week, helping increase its valuation this year by more than $100bn — the equivalent of Ford and Halliburton combined....
...Lay-offs in middle management in US companies such as Walmart and Ford have raised fears of a “white-collar” recession....
...Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest carmaker, followed Ford and Volvo in warning that supply chain hold-ups were becoming a permanent problem as it downgraded its delivery targets because of a lack of parts....
...Ford is cutting 3,000 workers as it tilts its labour force towards electric vehicles....
...Coppola burst onto the scene as one of a new wave of directors in the late ’90s, along with Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson....
...Apple, Boeing and Siemens have now joined Ford, Nike and others in the corporate boycott, while PR firms and support services such as accountants and consultants are cutting ties for fear of reputational...
...Semiconductor shortages were one of the reasons for Ford’s lower than expected 2021 profits of $10bn, but the company said higher pricing could lift earnings by as much as 25 per cent this year....
...Ford doubles production target for electric truck Ford has almost doubled the production target for the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of its bestselling pick-up truck, to 150,000 a year, an announcement...
...cases and 69,000 more deaths in 2020 as resources were diverted to coronavirus HC-One, the UK’s biggest care home chain, paid £4.8m to its owners while receiving £18.9m in state aid during the pandemic Ford...
...Latest news The French group CMA CGM is buying a container terminal operator at the port of Los Angeles, which has been hit hard by the chaos in global shipping Ford sales continue to recover with signs...
...Patricia Illingworth, a philosophy professor and philanthropy expert at Northeastern University, acknowledged that “as head of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker has been a moral leader who has improved...
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