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...“At Berkshire, we particularly favour the rare enterprise that can deploy additional capital at high returns in the future,” he said on Saturday....
...In his 22 years as general counsel, Gustavsson has broadened the legal function’s remit to include enterprise risk management, security, and corporate development....
...Gone are the concrete surfaces with multicoloured lines. In are the 4G artificial grass pitches with smart clubhouses....
...“Very few [young people] have a concrete idea [for a company] but they admire entrepreneurs . . ....
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...But while avoiding the need to use a single supplier of steel or concrete, for example, it was an approach that made the process more complex as well....
...And for China Inc as a whole, the news was even worse....
...Rahman got his job site off the ground in Pakistan by focusing on jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises. Those examples are enlightening....
...He seemed at ease striding along its concrete corridors among the converted shipping containers used as offices, chatting to bearded and tattooed tech entrepreneurs....
...Google employees will no longer be confined to “immovable concrete buildings”....
...Martin (whose enterprise value is $6bn) is offering a thin 13 per cent premium, payable only in equity....
...By forcing multinationals to lower prices and improve their offerings they are hoping to raise the bar for domestic competitors as well as provide concrete examples to the masses of how their lives are improving...
...But classic progressivism had the virtue of being a concrete programme, of being an adversary you could argue with. In the reign of “niceness”, we no longer seem to stand for anything....
...To make the concept more concrete, consider a simplified example involving a pharmaceutical company’s attempts to create more revenue from its existing lineup of products....
...In Ahmedabad, the IT sector has been cultivated using stamp duty and electricity duty exemptions for units in IT parks and special enterprise zones....
...“What we do will be a significant reference [point for] Chinese enterprises in the future.”...
...The docklands owes its gilded second life as much to the Big Bang of financial deregulation, a case of government getting out of the way, as to all that new concrete and glass....
...“We doubt that Wednesday evening’s EU summit will result in many groundbreaking concrete agreements,” said analysts at Barclays Capital in a research note....
...If one part of the enterprise is playing football, and the other part is playing a symphony, obscure needs like IT security are going to be early casualties....
...Sany and Citic will pay €360m for the business, as well as taking on Putzmeister’s debt, giving the company an enterprise value of just over €500m.* Sany will pay 90 per cent and Citic Capital 10 per cent...
...The question for Nature Valley, and the other Olympic sponsors, is how to turn this “feel-good association” into more concrete measures of revenue and profit....
...There is a deteriorating outlook for enterprise capital expenditure in their key markets. The business doesn’t perform well in that sort of environment.”...
...materials group, had grown through numerous acquisitions in the span of a decade, to include a total of 14 cement plants, distribution terminals, more than 100 aggregate quarries and several hundred ready-mix concrete...
...The government has also launched a “growth review”, promising concrete action in the March Budget....
...The same people said the world’s largest-listed fertiliser producer was pursuing concrete strategies to increase shareholder value, repeatedly pointing towards China as a potential dealmaker....
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