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...Peter Wexler General counsel, Schneider Electric As incoming GC in 2009, Peter Wexler and his team created an ethics charter for Schneider Electric, the French electrical equipment group....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...Conservative Nestlé, which owns Nespresso and Nescafé, has eschewed big acquisitions — although chief executive Mark Schneider has struck a licensing deal with Starbucks and acquired Blue Bottle, a Californian...
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Lower immigration and skill shortages in sectors like IT and logistics will create upward pressure on wages....
...The last time EU courts overruled the regulator’s decision to block a deal was in 2002, when the judges annulled a trio of decisions in one year — proposed deals involving Airtours/First Choice, Schneider...
...So we just say that’s business we’re not doing,” Chris Lofgren, chief executive of Schneider National, a leading carrier, told a New York conference....
...After the US logistics group had its plans thwarted, its arch-rival FedEx bought TNT....
...Social robots are more than tools, says the new Foundation for Responsible Robotics, Alibaba has bought the South China Morning Post, Amazon is pushing logistics to the limit....
...Mr Allason is wearing a v-neck T-shirt, jeans with a tear in the thigh and flip-flops. He looks like a college dropout – mainly because he is one....
...Because of long lead times, even aircrafts still on multiyear contracts from the US, such as Bell Boeing’s V-22 tilt rotor, a helicopter propeller aircraft hybrid, need to quickly secure international customers...
...The cash flow problems facing one of China’s highest-profile shipping companies, Grand China Logistics, appear to be deepening after it handed back at least two chartered vessels early to their owners and...
...In corporate news, Tyco International lost 0.6 per cent to $52.01 after Schneider Electric said it was “not currently” in takeover talks with the maker of security systems, as had been rumoured....
...Bill Matheson, president of the intermodal division of Schneider National, one of the US’s largest trucking lines, insists it is vital to ensure truckers are trained and retained during the downturn, to...
...Bharti plans to invest up to $2.5bn to build a national hypermarket chain with support from Wal-Mart, which would have no equity in the Bharti stores but is in talks to co-own the wholesaling and logistics...
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