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...Now we consider the acquisition spree that has seen Fridman buy up Holland & Barrett, the health food chain, in 2017 and his stab at Dia, the Spanish supermarket chain....
...SQM is one of the most experienced producers of lithium, extracting the metal from brine beneath the Atacama desert since the 1990s....
...As Mr Holland says: “No one should be taking their foot off the gas.”...
...Jonathan Holland and Robert Websdale have joined as relationship managers from Barclays....
...Mr Holland also agreed to waive his 2013 bonus after an investigation into the company’s black economic empowerment deal for the company’s South Deep mine in South Africa....
...African Barrick Gold and Gold Fields, whose chief executive Nick Holland has been an advocate of more comprehensive cost measures, reported an AISC of $1,416 per ounce....
...While it received EU approval last month, it still requires formal national assent from several European countries, including the UK and Holland....
...According to a company presentation (p7) given by chief exectuive Nick Holland at the recent mining Indaba in South Africa, the company has a total 64 Moz (million ounces) of gold reserves, of which 40 Moz...
...But Mr Holland firmly believes he is a trendsetter. “It’s not only Gold Fields....
...With gold being the commodity of choice during periods of economic upheaval and demand rising in China and India, it would be easy to assume that producers of the precious metal have been enjoying buoyant...
...change forever the face of the South African gold industry,” Mr Holland said....
...The tone is set in the statement by chief executive Nick Holland: “The September quarter of 2012 will be remembered as one of the most challenging from an operational perspective…”, and continues in that...
...Nick Holland, Gold Fields chief executive, said on Tuesday that the illegal strikes had cost it 65,000 ounces of gold production and R1.2bn ($140m) in lost revenue, while AngloGold has said the industrial...
...Yet, the price of other metals and minerals for which South Africa is a key producer remains largely unaffected....
...Nick Holland, chief executive of Gold Fields, the world’s fourth-largest producer of the precious metal, says: “The problem is we are now faced with a situation where you can’t just keep loading an industry...
...The better sentiment in Europe as well as the US has helped to lift metals prices – even though buying from China, the world’s largest consumer of metals, remains relatively subdued....
...In contrast, three or four years ago, its contribution was 60 to 70 per cent, Mr Holland says....
...According to David Threlkeld, president of metal strategist group Resolved Inc, the out-of-sight inventory risks skewing global demand perceptions: We are now forced to assume that the LME’s published inventory...
...“At some point it has to turn,” says Nick Holland, chief executive of Gold Fields, the fourth-largest gold miner. “We’re just at a strange point in the cycle.”...
...His government has announced increases in the mineral royalty rate to 6 per cent, up from 3 per cent for base metals, including copper, and from 5 per cent for precious metals....
...“For the next two years there’s a predicted shortfall in production of copper against consumption,” says Peter Hollands, managing director, Bloomsbury Minerals Economics....
...The 300 sq m tent-like terminal, which officials say is the first of its kind, has a metal frame and fabric walls, and can be easily erected and dismantled to cope with surges in demand (such as during the...
...The FTSE Eurofirst 300 rose 0.8 per cent to 1,152.71, led by rising industrial metals and technology stocks....
...Importantly, Chrysler dealers have managed to move more metal than most observers expected....
...Industrial metals stocks rallied thanks to rises in base metal prices....
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