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...“We are not at all in the business of reselling kilowatt-hours,” Wendel said....
...But some investors suggest Wendel simply underestimated the cultural barriers to change within Saint-Gobain....
...But the Wendels left in 1978 and the last of the steel furnaces closed three years ago....
...David Stevenson is also one of the Four Wise Monkeys at the online TV investment programme www.4wm.co.uk adventurous@ft.com...
...Wendel, the large French house, is trying to flog its Materis Paints business to raise cash....
...His remarks come as Sir David Walker, a City grandee, is pushing the UK private equity trade body, the BVCA, to collect and publish more data on the industry’s economic and social impact as part of the code...
...Reports in the French press said Mr Pinault had planned to break up Suez if his bid succeeded, selling its energy assets to GDF and its environmental unit to Veolia Environnement, while Wendel Investissement...
...Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World’s Great Family Businesses by David LandesViking ₤25, 400 pages David Landes’ last book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, displayed the magisterial talents...
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