Hints and tips:
...Ferguson, the plumbing and heating supplier whose flack sends us a testy email every time we call it a builders’ merchant, gets an upgrade from HSBC and a downgrade from JP Morgan Cazenove....
...“[Former government adviser Professor] Neil Ferguson was talking about 20,000 deaths and I remember saying: ‘Oh yeah, that would seem like a reasonable figure — like a bad flu season.’...
...Wolseley, the British plumbing and heating supplier, on Tuesday announced plans to rename itself after its dominant US business called Ferguson and sell its struggling Nordic unit, as the company also raised...
...It has delayed by years a new 80,000 b/d in situ project at Carmon Creek, near Peace river, Alberta....
...Wolseley, which runs the Ferguson and Plumb Center brands, has also been expanding in Nordic countries, which analysts believe could be a fresh source of growth....
...Last year, it bought Sage Electrochromics, a US group whose window glass can switch between tinted and transparent, reducing heating and cooling bills....
...Ferguson, a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, explained in a speech at the California State University’s SEC Financial Reporting Conference earlier in September: Under Chinese law...
...Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography, by Alex Ferguson, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£25/$29.95 Ferguson offers insights into the players he managed during his 27 years with Manchester United and into some opposing...
...FT Alphaville readers (or anyone who has ever read Niall Ferguson or nearly every other economic historian, or taken even a passing interest in the unit of exchange they use on a daily basis) will, of course...
...In the second world war, the factory was a powerhouse of the industrial strength that brought victory to the Allies, producing thousands of B-26 Marauder bombers for the US Air Force....
...Next door is the urban best practices area, where the city of Hamburg’s pavilion is a “passive house” that maintains a 25 degree C temperature without traditional heating or cooling....
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