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...Next, manufacturing. They’re baked like cakes. Next, size and appearance. Cakey. Flying colours for both. Next, taste and texture....
...Michael Setterdahl, chief executive of Liberty Steel USA, put the problems down to a bad market in mid-2019 but said that demand had since recovered....
...“Europe going it alone with green taxes prevents renewal as it frightens away investment into the open arms of the USA and China....
...On Thursday, Novartis said it would sell portions of the Sandoz US portfolio to Aurobindo Pharma USA in order to focus on “higher growth areas”....
...Said deal was meant to allow the Shenzhen-based manufacturing giant to pay out $1.4bn for the lifting of a ban that prevented it from buying US components....
...“Even though SK Hynix’s manufacturing facility is less than half the size of Samsung’s, the number of recipients [of compensation] is much higher,” he said....
...Closing quotes Lex Apple: USA, USA Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders? Apple found no room for them in Wednesday’s 1,100 word paean to America....
...It is about manufacturing, automotive, everything and where the European economy wants to go.”...
...However, Kåre Schultz, Teva’s recently appointed chief executive, has told investors he wants to either raise the price of some of these “non-economical” drugs or stop manufacturing them altogether....
...USA, jobs in the USA — it’s all fine....
...So, comparatively against the euro area and USA which are on more of a cyclical upswing, UK growth may be a tad slower in at least the first part of 2018....
...The move quickly spurred market speculation that Mr Son would revive talks for a merger between SoftBank-owned Sprint and rival T-Mobile USA....
...Saving $1.5bn a year, the merger will shed 5,000 jobs, or 10 per cent of the combined workforce, and close seven manufacturing plants....
...You might have noticed some disappointing news from our manufacturing sector....
...We think there will be sectoral differences with manufacturing under pressure while traded services are encouraged by the resource allocation effects of eliminating EU protection of agriculture and manufacturing...
...Cooper has agreed to sell its 65 per cent stake in the joint venture, its largest manufacturing facility, to Chengshan for $285m....
...But, right now, it is not obvious that India can show a competitive advantage in the manufacturing of anything. Indian infrastructure remains a huge constraint....
...The factory was the Ohio company’s largest manufacturing operation and a key part of the Apollo-Cooper deal, which attempted to combine Apollo’s strong presence in India and Africa with Cooper’s manufacturing...
...But Cooper Tire’s retreat from a joint venture in Shandong province drew almost no international attention — despite being one of the most interesting corporate case studies of the first two years of Chinese...
...“In the last 20 years we have seen the USA, Germany, France and countries across the OECD accelerate away from us by investing higher and higher proportions in R&D,” he said....
...In a delayed third-quarter earnings report, Cooper said the strike had cost it $22m in reduced production volumes and another $7m in “manufacturing inefficiencies”....
...How important is export manufacturing to Vietnam?...
...The plant at Birmingham’s Fort Dunlop site, a UK manufacturing landmark, will fall silent as Dunlop owner Goodyear shifts production to France and Germany....
...“With industrial applications accounting for 46 per cent of total silver demand, a slowdown in manufacturing should impact on silver negatively,” analysts at Standard Bank wrote at the time....
...Manufacturing activity in the UK continued to grow at a fast pace in December, though momentum slipped slightly from the previous month....
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