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...The two Pichons and Les Forts de Latour, the glamorous second wine of first growth Ch Latour, all earned a top-notch score of 18 out of 20 from me with Grand Puy Lacoste, the group favourite, just half a...
...The ground floor of the office tower housing Rio de Janeiro’s state finance department is boarded up, as if girding for a storm....
...The data also shows payments to doctors by medical device companies, led by Medtronic and De Puy, totalling a further $188m last year....
...Certain De Puy staff and “potentially” its worldwide chairman maintained the corporate relationship with Medec “while keeping the sales practice at arms length” until 2005....
...for the US and European orthopaedic markets remains challenging....
...Nonetheless, investors may look at a similar situation at De La Rue, the banknote printer, and feel aggrieved that they are not being given the appropriate opportunities to consider takeover approaches for...
...However, I was not at all impressed blind by Gusbourne’s 2006 all-Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs....
...De La Rue was up 1.3 per cent to 788p on talk that Oberthur was preparing to increase its takeover offer, having last month had a 905p proposal rejected....
...The finance ministry said the bank accounts of 12 Greek orthopaedic specialists had been opened and assets seized in connection with a bribery scandal involving medical products sold by de Puy, a subsidiary...
...A deal for Biomet would create an orthopaedic specialist worth up to $20bn and capable of competing against the US sector leaders, Zimmer and Stryker....
...Corin fell 7.9 per cent to 239½p after the manufacturer of orthopaedic devices said US regulatory review for its hip device, Cormet, would be delayed until the first quarter of next year....
...Acciona fell 2 per cent to €77.35 while Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas dropped 3 per cent to €45.71 on analyst reports that the sector may have peaked....
...Rival Anglo American lost 1.6 per cent to £12.81 after its De Beers diamond unit forecast a challenging 2005....
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