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...The Romans gave us underfloor heating and the oculus; we offer crumbling concrete, microplastics and an avalanche of Nespresso pods....
...It is not plumbing industry hyperbole, either....
...A legal dispute between Nasdaq and IEX Group over trading technology is heating up in the latest example of the fiercely competitive landscape in the world’s largest equity market....
...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...
...Ferguson, the plumbing and heating supply company company formerly known as Wolseley, has posted a 9 per cent increase in both full-year revenue and trading profit at its ongoing businesses....
...“Mobile is now the last thing,” said Fred Wilson, investor at Union Square Ventures, in a blog post this week....
...- El-Erian knows how to fix the global plumbing. - To Sir Fred, with regret… - Further, further reading....
...Wolseley , the distributor of plumbing and heating goods highly exposed to US markets, was 3.8 per cent weaker at £23.00....
...Mr Hall will be replaced on March 6 by Roddy Murray, who joins Pace from BSS Group, the plumbing and heating company that was bought by Travis Perkins....
...There are no fast-spinning blades or visible heating elements. The basic technology is the same as that used in Dyson’s bladeless fans....
...The concern is that continued high failures could cause instability in the plumbing of the world’s financial system, and sow confusion over who really owns which assets....
...Roddy Murray, former numbers man of plumbing and heating group BSS, will join the company in May....
...Rok and a hard place Worried about its misfiring plumbing, heating and electrical business, Rok – like any concerned householder – called in an expert, who discovered “serious failings in the financial...
...The world’s leading distributor of heating and plumbing products said it expected trading profits for the year to July 31 to be ahead of analysts’ expectations of £374m....
...However, it acquired more clients including, in recent weeks, Wolseley, the heating and plumbing supplier, and Rexam, the packaging group, winning the mandates from UBS and Citigroup respectively....
...Here many leading UK investment institutions had long been worried that Sir Fred Goodwin, RBS chief executive, was bent on expansion regardless of shareholder value....
...Sir Fred Goodwin did, after all, do a fine job with the acquisition of NatWest. But that led to hubris, which takes us back to where we started. john.plender@ft.com...
...Wolseley, the FTSE 100 plumbing, heating and building supplies chain, has called in three banks to act as advisers in case of a hostile bid approach after the recent plunge in its share price, people familiar...
...Wolseley, the world’s largest distributor of plumbing and heating products, said it would no longer pay its final dividend, saving £150m, as a downturn in key markets cut pre-tax profits by 35 per cent....
...“And it’s materially less expensive and easier to design from scratch things like catchment areas for water, plumbing and recycling of water....
...Uponor fell 18.6 per cent to €20.41 after the Finnish plumbing and heating pipes maker chopped its 2007 sales guidance, blaming weakness in the US and German markets....
...Of the fallers, plumbing group Wolseley, badly hit by worries over the US housing market, lost 1.9 per cent to £11.99 ahead of its interims on Monday....
...It allows you, on a minor league level, to be like a George Steinbrenner or a Fred Wilpon. It lets you say, ‘I’ve got a team, too!’”...
...Wolseley rose 1.3 per cent to £11.64 after the world’s largest plumbing group continued its spate of recent deals by buying William Wilson, a leading distributor of plumbing, heating and electrical supplies...
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