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...The split The Issa brothers built a retail empire together....
...Sunday 100th anniversary of the Ottoman Empire ending. El Salvador: municipal elections. UK: annual rail fares increase comes into force....
...AI empire Blackstone is building a $25bn empire of data centres in a bet on the artificial intelligence boom, Bloomberg reports....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: S&P Global will release its flash manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ indices for September....
...“There may be some sort of national champion element to this, and once you start empire building for non-economic reasons, anything is possible,” said one analyst who has covered JSR for many years and said...
...On Thursday, the Chinese foreign ministry hit back at the allegations, saying they “lacked evidence” and accused the US of being a “hacker empire”....
...Unexpected but logical The announcement this week that state-backed Japan Investment Corp....
...The result was that total manufacturing output in the period 1924-37 rose faster than in the Victorian heyday....
...Could buying Twitter be an act of hubris that jeopardises Elon Musk’s start-up empire?...
...says Chip Gregson, a former US assistant defence secretary and former commander of US Marine Corps forces in the Pacific....
...Job moves Tudor Brown, the former president of UK chipmaker Arm, has resigned from the board of China’s biggest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, after nine years, citing a widening...
...India’s central bank has replaced the board of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Capital and will push the lender into bankruptcy proceedings, marking the latest company in his business empire to collapse....
...The son of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who turned AIG into a financial powerhouse over four decades, Evan Greenberg has spent several years building his own insurance empire....
...We have entered a fourth stage of economic development — beyond extractive, manufacturing and service economies — to find ourselves where customers of these large corporations are also their feed-stock....
...(FT) Good publicity LVMH boss Bernard Arnault is expanding his empire to include an unexpected addition — a 5 per cent stake in the struggling French conglomerate Lagardère....
...Valued by some analysts at almost €3bn, the enterprise dates back to the early 19th century and was long a symbol of Germany’s manufacturing might....
...Schenck Process, a German manufacturing group, has coined a new earnings measure — earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and coronavirus or ebitdac....
...Not much Andrew Carmellini spent three decades building his New York City restaurant empire. It took only 72 hours to shut it down....
...Products for other industries offer overlaps in areas such as manufacturing or R&D. “Why are we in automotive?...
...Mr Gou has been continuously reinventing his business empire over the years....
...However, Nestlé also hopes to use its global distribution and manufacturing facilities to sell Starbucks products in geographical markets underserved by the US group....
...Critics have been quick to point out the sheer waste -- of industrial and human capital alike -- generated by Musk's green empire....
...As television viewership migrates online, MoffettNathanson analysts say Fox’s positioning in news and sports may offer some insulation....
...The question of who will lead their businesses into the future is coming to a head for several of the world’s largest groups, just as motor manufacturing faces an era of intense change with the need to embrace...
...He was CEO of Ace, the Zurich-based insurer he joined in 2001. Ace agreed to buy its New York-listed rival for almost $30bn and assumed the better-known Chubb corporate name....
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