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...Japan’s Seven & i Holdings plans to have 1,000 7-Eleven stores in Vietnam by 2027, and Thailand’s B’s Mart chain is aiming for 3,000 locations....
...Kenya’s opposition ramped up its campaign to pressure President Uhuru Kenyatta into holding another election by announcing the first three companies it wants its supporters to boycott....
...The group rolled out a number of SUV models last year, including the Boyue, GS, and Vision, to capitalise on customer enthusiasm for the larger, higher-margin cars in secondary cities....
...GS Infrastructure Partners had 23.33 per cent and Infracapital, a division of M&G Investments, held 10 per cent of ABP....
...Japan Airlines is sending the defective battery to GS Yuasa, the manufacturer, for examination....
...Meanwhile energy and retail-focused GS Group has announced a similar plan for about 2,500 non-regular employees....
...The indefinite grounding of the worldwide Boeing 787 fleet has already dealt a heavy blow to GS Yuasa, the Japanese supplier of the lithium-ion batteries that are at the centre of investigations into the...
...Mr Conner denied a Wall Street Journal report that Boeing and GS Yuasa were at odds over how best to resolve the problems....
...The NTSB statement came after Japanese regulators said they had found no problems with manufacturing standards at the GS Yuasa plant in Kyoto that manufactured both batteries involved....
...GS Yuasa confirmed the search and said it was co-operating fully with the investigation but declined to comment further....
...US and Japanese regulators have already launched an investigation into GS Yuasa, the Kyoto-based manufacturer of aircraft, which manufactures the lithium-ion batteries....
...Regulators are focusing on some of Boeing’s Dreamliner suppliers, including GS Yuasa, the Japanese manufacturer of the lithium-ion batteries....
...GS Yuasa, a Japanese manufacturer, supplies the lithium-ion batteries for the 787, which are used to start the aircraft’s engines and its auxiliary power unit....
...Share Sale IBS Group Holding Ltd., a Russian provider of information-technology services, is considering a spinoff of its software development unit Luxoft via an initial public offering in the U.S....
...Hyundai Development jumped 7.9 per cent to Won19,800 and GS Engineering rose 2.9 per cent to Won95,000....
...Insiders said this would exceed EQT’s average holding period of five years....
...Top underwriters are JPM ($404B), BAC ($381B), LEH ($327B), WAMU ($152B), while GS ($146B) and MS ($94B) fall within the top 10....
...GS: Again, we agree with this, as explained in more detail in Thursday’s US Daily....
...Youku is backed by Brookside Capital Partners, Farallon Capital Management, Maverick Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures, while E-Commerce China Dangdang’s investors include DCM, IDG Technology Venture Investment...
...SK Energy rose 4.2 per cent to Won172,500 and GS Holdings jumped 7.3 per cent to Won67,500....
...(Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun is also keen to prevent Motor holding 8 per cent of Hyundai Group’s containers business through E&C.)...
...Construction companies also advanced, GS Engineering & Construction climbing 3 per cent to Won82,900 and Daewoo Engineering & Construction jumping 6.8 per cent to Won11,000....
...Geely Automobile Holdings, China’s largest private automaker, will raise HK$2.59bn ($334m) selling convertible bonds and warrants to a fund managed by Goldman Sachs, reports Bloomberg....
...Two local groups, which each own a minority stake, are expected to divest some of their holdings while new shares could also be issued to a foreign investor....
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