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...Sir Jim Ratcliffe, billionaire founder of UK chemicals group Ineos, has also made an offer to buy the club, the company confirmed in a statement on Saturday....
...These include boots brand Dr Martens, whose shares are down almost 70 per cent since Permira listed it in January 2021; chemicals firm Azelis, which has shed 25 per cent of its value since EQT brought it...
...Hovenkamp: Chemicals in the mid-century. Even still today, things like high-fructose corn syrup. Heavy industry, early in the 20th century....
...In a statement, Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala, Vice’s co-chief executive officers, said the “sale process will strengthen the company and position Vice for long-term growth”....
...Apollo’s private equity business said it found bargains, taking private chemicals company, Univar for $8bn and Arconic, the metal products company for $5bn....
...Two other large private equity buyouts were announced this week: the acquisition of another software business, Cvent, for $4.6bn and the $8.1bn purchase of chemical company Univar....
...Third Point, run by activist investor Daniel Loeb, wrote to its investors on Wednesday saying that dividing Shell into a legacy oil, refining and chemicals company, and a separate gas, renewables and marketing...
...Super-cyclicals such as chips, chemicals and steel are carrying the tech and materials sectors. Airlines and homebuilders are screaming. It goes on and on....
...Despite that strategy not panning out so well, partner Chris Dixon isn’t giving up, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...“He was a legendary investor himself,” said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management, who worked with Robertson at broker Kidder, Peabody & Co about 45 years ago before Robertson founded...
...Joshua Harris, another Apollo co-founder who was behind some of the company’s most successful investments such as the takeover of chemicals company LyondellBasell, also left during the turmoil after he was...
...“I think Chase is one of the hardest-working, most intense, most competitive people I’ve ever come across,” said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management who invests in Tiger and also previously...
...The billionaire industrialist had announced a year earlier the sale of his listed chemicals company, Huntsman Corp, to the private equity titan Apollo Global Management for $10.6bn....
...After campaigning against a contentious merger in 2015 of Samsung’s construction and chemicals subsidiaries, Elliott Management was berated in the press as a “parasite”....
...The Tiger Cubs “were buying growth today and tomorrow but the earnings weren’t there in some of the stuff they were buying”, said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management, who has previously...
...Last week, the activist hedge fund run by Dan Loeb took aim at Shell, arguing that it should break itself up into a legacy oil and chemicals business and a green arm focused firmly on the future....
...Those separate companies could include, for example, a legacy oil, refining and chemicals business, and a gas, renewables and marketing business, it said....
...A deal for Saudi Aramco to take a 20 per cent stake in Reliance’s oil-to-chemicals business is still pending, however, as the drop in oil prices strains the Saudi group’s earnings along with those of Reliance...
...Also incorporated at the same address is Proper Chemical Limited. It has the same listed number as Fern Labs, but extremely little other information is available....
...“Chemical recycling of plastics is a niche solution but it is getting extraordinary attention from the largest petrochemical companies and consumer brands,” says Ben Dixon, head of circular materials at...
...“No shop in the history of investment management has produced more phenomenal people,” said Dixon Boardman, chief executive of Optima Asset Management, who worked with Robertson at broker Kidder, Peabody...
...(Reuters) Over a decade ago, the EPA approved fracking chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects. (NYT) Biden’s clean energy plan could save 317,000 lives in the next 30 years....
...It later expanded further into chemicals, PVC pipes, irrigation equipment and other industrial supplies....
...Its aggressive executives leapt on Twinkies maker Hostess Brands, chemicals group LyondellBasell, and other businesses left for dead....
...A chemical engineer by training, Mr Smith has overtaken Oprah Winfrey to become the country’s richest African-American, according to Forbes....
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