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...Toyota has also invested in Mazda Motor and Subaru, taking the Japanese auto empire’s annual sales up to 16m vehicles globally, at the time of the agreement....
...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....
...The latest idea to be discussed by City of London Corporation involves changing the way that some of the roads are used as workers slowly return to their offices....
...GFG’s footprint in America, where it reopened a steel mill in South Carolina this summer, and adds to a lengthy list of merger and acquisition transactions around the world by Mr Gupta’s growing business empire...
...Marley is carving out a mini-marijuana empire for himself, with a stake in a retail dispensary in Colorado and plans to convert a former California prison into a massive marijuana manufacturing plant....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 1. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved. Related stories That’s a wrap!...
...Little of Mr Batista’s Brazilian business empire survived the end of the commodities boom and he went bust in 2014 in a trail of exaggerated promises and extravagant spending....
...Mr Vervaat said its multinational customers wanted RPC to follow them into expanding outside Europe and the company had made moves to this end including the acquisition of Hong Kong-headquartered Ace Corporation...
...Yet both men created business empires that conform to another truism of the tech world: founder-led companies have tended to dominate the industry....
...The sale of that chain gave him money to invest on a bigger scale, and when Wall Street began manufacturing junk bonds, it added rocket fuel to his fortune....
...But nowhere more so than at News Corp, the media empire controlled by Rupert Murdoch, writes Robert Budden....
...Of course certain sectors require huge amounts of capital, such as car manufacturing or mining. Others, like water supply, have to be monopolies....
...Groupon is the most visible company in this empire....
...His first Montreal firm, Distillers Corporation, specialised in manufacturing cheap whisky, although it was Sam who went on to establish the upmarket US liquor industry, by exploiting tastes for decent whisky...
...“Costs are higher here, not driven by labour rates but rather by lack of incentives or tax credits that are available to US corporations in most other countries.”...
...Familiar arguments are trotted out about China focusing on manufacturing, in contrast to the west’s effete obsession with the service sector. (And this from a former Goldman Sachs employee.)...
...As his successors dismembered his transatlantic empire, Messier descended into what he terms “a period of fear and anxiety”....
...Global companies will push these new parts of their empire, or new trading partners to adopt more sophisticated risk management practices....
...In late 2006, when he heard that he would be in charge of detention policy in Iraq, he approached the RAND Corporation, a policy think tank, for ideas on detention....
...A manufacturing centre, it is a monument to Turkey’s new bourgeoisie....
...Now Mr Kamath is predicting Indian corporations will invest an unprecedented $500bn in infrastructure and manufacturing over the next three years, doubling the country’s existing industrial capacity....
...BITS Corporation slipped 4.1 per cent to 29p amid speculation the software developer was planning a placing to raise finance to fund two new deals....
...That could see more programme sponsorship by big corporations and potential product placement in some shows....
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