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...The Xerox nominees include Betsy Atkins, the chief executive of venture capital firm Baja Corporation; Kim Fennebresque, who was previously a top banker at Lazard and UBS; Matthew Hart, an American Airlines...
...Xerox also cashed in $2.3bn from the sale of its 25 per cent stake in the Fujifilm joint venture when it sold its share to the Japanese company....
...A recent case to study is Fujifilm’s spectacular battle with activist Carl Icahn over a $6.1bn bid for control of Xerox....
...He resigned on Tuesday, after a US judge found indications he and the board had approved a complex takeover by Fujifilm partly mainly to frustrate activist Carl Icahn....
...JOLED was formed in 2015 through a merger of the OLED operations of Sony and Panasonic and is 75 per cent owned by the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, a government-backed fund....
...The deal is a complicated merger that combines Xerox with its Asian subsidiary that it co-owns with FujiFilm....
...Fujifilm Holdings has delayed the release of its fourth-quarter earnings after it found accounting irregularities at its sales subsidiary in New Zealand, in the latest mishap to befall a big Japanese corporation...
...A number of local corporations, including Sony, Canon, Fujifilm and Nikon, were listed by Nikkei on Wednesday as having been approached as part of a ¥100bn ($888m) capital raising to advance the project...
...Nearly two years since the introduction of Japan’s first corporate governance code, early optimism has been dented by scandals at Japanese giants such as Toshiba, Fujifilm and Dentsu....
...For example Fujifilm, diversifying away from cameras and photography, acquired Wisconsin-based Cellular Dynamics for $307m in 2015 and became the leading US manufacturer of iPS cells....
...Fujifilm Holdings has said it may consider participating in the bid once the investment framework is worked out....
...With Abenomics — Mr Abe’s three-arrowed revival programme — return on equity is finally catching on as a management goal at Sony, Fujifilm Holdings and other corporations....
...Continuous cost-cutting and restructuring at big corporations have also made young Japanese more willing to set out on their own....
...Last February, Fujifilm acquired two biopharmaceutical companies from Merck, while Terumo acquired a US medical device company this January....
...In an indication of the jockeying ahead of the expected auction, Kodak has alleged patent infringement against Apple, HTC, Fujifilm and Samsung in separate lawsuits over the past 10 days....
...Nikon rose by 15.1 per cent to Y1,261, Canon gained 11.4 per cent to Y3,310 and Fujifilm was 8.9 per cent higher to Y2,260. Lensmakers also gained....
...Does commercial sponsorship of big sporting events yield any benefits to the corporations who are doing it?...
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