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...A third brief, from Ikea, Mars, Adobe and Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance, argued that their businesses would be harmed if emissions from power generation in the US were not cut....
...Chocolate-maker Mars International is spending $160m on its first plant in the country, while Kellogg, the US cereal maker, has invested $100m in the past 18 months....
...A group of more than 220 companies including well-known US names such as Kellogg, Levi-Strauss, Mars, Nike and Starbucks has signed a letter in support of Mr Obama’s plan, along with European groups including...
...The recent $270m acquisition by Essilor of Costa Inc, which owns the sports sunglasses brand Costa del Mar, was the culmination of a remarkable and unlikely transformation of AT Cross, the 165-year-old US...
...’s local subsidiaries such as Andes Petroleum and PetroOriental....
...… The Martian, by Andy Weir, Del Rey, RRP£7.99 The SF book of the year, Weir’s debut is a tense, unbearably gripping survival story about an astronaut stranded on Mars with only his wits, scientific...
...The sale of half of Sacyr’s 20 per cent stake in Repsol effectively brings to an end a 5 year running battle between the companies that cost Luis Del Rivero, the builder’s co-founder and chairman, his job...
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...Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company, was the only major foreign oil company holding out on a new contract with Ecuador on Tuesday night, paving the way for a possible exit from the Andean nation....
...The company’s name was changed from British Petroleum to BP (via, for a brief period, BP Amoco) and the logo evolved from a shield to the “helios”, a sort of green and yellow sunflower....
...Anadarko Petroleum , a Texas oil company that owns a 25 per cent stake in the rig, gained 12.4 per cent to $39.15....
...Just two days after Saudi Aramco decided to change the way it prices its oil – by abandoning the Platts WTI benchmark in favour of Argus Petroleum’s Sour Crude Index – the CME, owner of the Nymex exchange...
...● Del Mar Asset Management, the US-based multi-strategy hedge fund, has launched the Index Opportunities Fund....
...Mars sour gained 5 cents to $1.65 under WTI. “Spreads moved in 10 cents and out 7 or 8 and then back in again,” a broker said....
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...From our conversation with the company yesterday this remains the position,” it said....
...The reduction comes the United Arab Emirates implements the output cut announced last week by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries....
...As Juan del Mar Ramírez, organic programme co-ordinator for Cocla, walks around Mr Roman’s organic, Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance-certified farm, he picks a coffee bean off a tree, pops it in his mouth...
...Deliveries of coffee to Louisiana's port have been disrupted, as have the petroleum by-products used to make the plastic lid and packaging....
...A meeting with fellow American heads of state in the Argentine seaside resort of Mar del Plata might sound like a welcome distraction for a US president facing mounting problems at home and in the Middle...
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