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...The businessman is the youngest son of the late Onsi Sawiris, who founded a construction company in the 1950s and built it over decades into a large multinational corporation now called Orascom Construction...
...Westlake, a chemicals and plastics company, will disclose the results of last week’s annual meeting by Wednesday....
...That’s the target of Valuable 500’s “Gen V” mentoring scheme, which pairs a senior executive with a young disabled employee....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...She joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...This isn’t just true for the well-established stuff about chemical-washed chicken, but also for digital issues such as data flow and 5G....
...For example, the top five lithium producers — Albemarle, Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium, Livent Corporation, SQM, Tianqi Lithium Corporation — have all faced allegations of corruption, tax avoidance or violating...
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...John Ruggie, a Harvard professor and human rights expert, agrees that “a defensiveness about the role of the corporation in modern society” has contributed to the rethink....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired David Klein as a partner in the law firm’s corporate practice group in New York....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...With Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, Carlyle bought Akzo Nobel’s speciality chemicals unit this year for €10.1bn, including debt — its largest ever deal in Europe....
...I think there is a political strategic component to it,” Mr Ellis says of the Chinese investment....
...Schiller joins from Goldman, where he was a Frankfurt based managing partner and also the bank’s global co-head of chemicals. He will remain based in Frankfurt....
...Smart Reads The secret shame of the US chip industry A quarter century ago, US chipmakers vowed to stop using chemicals that caused miscarriages and birth defects....
...Some residents of the city panicked, fearing an Israeli chemical attack, and Jordanian soldiers were deployed to the border....
...His biggest beef is with Kinder Morgan, the pipeline operator which recently transformed itself from a Master Limited Partnership into a corporation....
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
...By end of 2017 diesel and gasoline is scheduled to meet ‘China V’ standards (the main change being sulphur content falling from 50ppm to 10ppm)....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...The top three stock picks were Tenet Healthcare (Larry Robbins, Glenview Capital Management), Virgin Media (Philippe Laffont, Coatue Management) and Westlake Chemical (Dwight Anderson, Ospraie Management...
...“We make a nominal profit and pay dividends to the state government”, managing director, M.V.Hemanta Kumar, told beyondbrics....
...Demonstrators are protesting against the event being funded by the taxpayer in an age of austerity, describing the games as “an £11bn taxpayer-funded ad campaign for some of the worst corporations in our...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Colin Ellis, Daiwa Securities The recovery still looks set to be anaemic to me....
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