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...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...Investment and job creation benefit from a united Europe....
...At a recent trade show, the crush of plastic surgeons wanting to see a new application caused Wolters Kluwer’s booth to collapse, Ms McKinstry said: “Nothing’s happened in this space in 100 years that’s...
...The rebellion receives masterly treatment from Walker, a history professor at the University of California, Davis....
...Wolters Kluwer says there is concern it is moving too slowly. “Municipal bonds are a ticking time bomb, and all money market funds contain these bonds,” says Mr Liegel....
...Paul Murdock, director of enterprise risk compliance at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services says: “Regulation in derivatives and futures markets will have a seismic and significant effect on the hedge fund...
...Lombard Risk Management lost 13 per cent to 7½p after takeover talks with FRSGlobal, a division of Wolters Kluwer, came to an end....
...Nancy McKinstry (Wolters Kluwer) 20. Carol Bartz (Yahoo) 21. Vinita Bali (Britannia Industries) 22. Stine Bosse (Tryg) 23. Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) 24....
...Execution, the broker, speculated about a strategic disagreement, with the board perhaps less keen than Mr Smith on “radical solutions” such as a bid for Wolters Kluwer, Informa or United Business Media....
...He is widely regarded to be leaving the company in rude health, with reduced exposure to print and advertising....
...In the longer term, Mr Smith’s problem is a more welcome one: how to enhance the legacy left by Sir Crispin? Inevitably, a takeover of Wolters Kluwer is back in the frame....
...Anika Davis Pratt: Our Dean at NYU Stern, Thomas F. Cooley, asserts that now is a good time to invest in your human capital and believes that business is the greatest engine for social change....
...Wolters Kluwer, which had been seen as a likely target for Reed, is now seen by some analysts and investment bankers as one of the media companies with sufficiently strong balance sheets to pursue acquisitions...
...Companies including Reed Elsevier, Thomson Corp of Canada and Wolters Kluwer of the Netherlands have already invested more than €1bn on digitising their output....
...Among the losers was Dutch firm Wolters Kluwer , which tumbled 10.2 per cent to €17.18 and suffered a slew of downgrades after its fourth-quarter results and its 2008 sales outlook undershot forecasts....
...“We believe there is compelling strategic and financial logic in either a Reed bid for Wolters Kluwer or a merger of the two....
...Kluwer, the Amsterdam-listed publishing group....
...Reed Elsevier rose 0.5 per cent to 662p as Dresdner Kleinwort speculated the publishing group could merge with Wolters Kluwer....
...business publishing, Sir Crispin said, echoing comments from Thomson and Wolters Kluwer....
...grounds of health and safety....
...The price looks reasonable at 12.2 times estimated 2005 ebitda, a point above VNU's own rating, while Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer trade on about 10 times....
...Internally, companies must contend with employment and health and safety laws....
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