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...Chew has said the company has “no concrete plan” to launch an IPO....
...agencies including WPP, Publicis and Omnicom, and global brands such as Procter & Gamble and Unilever, on Tuesday said they wanted more to be done to “address harmful and misleading content” and to develop a “concrete...
...ADK had said that while its alliance with WPP — which included cross-shareholdings as well as a business partnership — had “initially provided a certain level of results”, a “concrete plan for collaboration...
...With GM, which is an investor in Lyft and owns the autonomous vehicle company Cruise, Lyft announced their alliance last year but details have so far not been forthcoming....
...While a growing number of big businesses are hoping to influence and uphold the rule of law in countries around the world where they do business, there are few concrete examples of big changes....
...Peugeot already has a joint venture with Fiat Chrysler, building vans, as well as other alliances with General Motors, Ford and Toyota....
...Therefore, instead of buying up one company, having a little stake in each other, knowing each other, and enjoying synergies — that could be [a] more concrete way of doing this,” he said....
...A snap election last October brought an unwieldy four-party coalition to power, including two groupings that are themselves awkward alliances of smaller parties....
...But analysts say Saudi Arabia’s strategic alliance with Washington, with the US military as its core protector, will be difficult to replace....
...Authorities expect to find many more dead bodies – possibly hundreds – as they dig through to the bottom of the mountain of concrete and iron....
...“Unless the US can guarantee that they will protect Europeans’ data as much as that of Americans we will have to take concrete actions to protect our citizens.”...
...Mazda lost its main foreign production foothold when Ford backed out of the companies’ three-decade capital alliance in 2008....
...One can almost hear the chill wind whistling through these concrete shells. Big UK businesses with Chinese operations include Burberry, Michael Page, Kingfisher and Tesco....
...The planned alliance was one of few concrete steps to come out of the Commission’s Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels last week, a wide-ranging effort to co-ordinate information technologies across the...
...The BM&F Bovespa has been quoted as saying it was eyeing similar tie-ups with Indian exchanges, although it is believed there are no concrete talks as yet on the issue....
...The Hong Kong bourse said it would “consider international opportunities for alliances, partnerships and other relationships” but conceded it had not identified anything concrete....
...Ken Chenault, the chief executive of American Express, has called for an alliance of business leaders and politicians to find concrete ways to create millions of jobs in the US and kick-start the anaemic...
...It also quickly added that this was all part of the contacts the French carmaker regularly had with other manufacturers and there was no guarantee the talks would lead to a concrete deal....
...But they added that no concrete numbers had been discussed with JAL....
...“There are no concrete acquisition possibilities at the moment. But we are as interested as ever”, says Mr Schaller. Warsaw is the biggest prize....
...strategic benefits of the global alliance” with MUFG....
...Mr Pessina gives few concrete examples. The only significant development he can point to is the meshing of the Alliance Unichem and Boots pharmacy management teams....
...Buy-out firms could hammer Hanson down into so many fragments – bricks, concrete products, Australian operations – and, just like the late Lord Hanson himself, rely on the aggregate reserves to generate...
...Critics of such agreements dismiss them as little more than talking shops – arguing that nothing concrete is usually achieved....
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