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...On that basis, its $18.25bn acquisition of speciality building products supplier SRS Distribution, including debt, offers good news and bad....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 3. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Delta is also building four large factories in India, where the company plans to make photovoltaic inverters and industrial automation equipment for the local market and information technology and communications...
...Scale can help with some expenses — building the app costs the same no matter how many users — but nothing like a Google or a Microsoft....
...US defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Raytheon also report earnings as demand for their products surges. 3M, Johnson & Johnson and General Electric also report....
...One of the most interesting is WireScreen, part of The Wire Digital Inc, a US-based news and data platform focused on China and global supply chains....
...The construction of the cladding facade “was the responsibility of . . . the designers, contractors, consultants and other construction professionals involved”, it said....
...Yet the stories shared by women at Apple indicate the world’s largest company is falling short in building the culture it aspires to....
...Richard McPhail, Home Depot’s chief financial officer, said investments in building out the company’s supply chain would continue to pressure gross margins this year....
...“I think we are independent contractors and we should be able to play where we want to play,” he said....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 27 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Home Depot, which has a greater focus on professional contractors, looks well placed to reap the benefit of the new wave of stimulus spending through HD Supply....
...It is still exempt despite a California judge ruling that the law classifying gig workers as independent contractors was unconstitutional....
...The world’s biggest home improvement chain said on Monday it had agreed to buy the Nasdaq-listed company, which supplies building materials to maintenance and repair contractors, for $56 per share in cash...
...the social housing contractor....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 14 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 9, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...When building Uber, he’d run roughshod over regulations and competitors. He was changing the world. Everyone else was just too slow to keep up....
...Palantir’s backers have long sought ways to set it apart from other big US tech companies that hesitate to take on defence work, as well as traditional US defence contractors, which do not have roots in...
...Others tasks, such as “brainstorming, reading nuance, building off each other’s ideas”, require closer proximity....
...“With the cars he’s building now, and the Cybertruck, they aren’t aiming any more at the Silicon Valley freaks and geeks, they are aiming at the regular Joe, the red necks, the country boys, the contractors...
...Uber hopes to apply its “on-demand” model and large database of contractors to provide a temporary workforce for events and corporate functions, such as waiters or security guards....
...Babcock International has hired former Cobham head David Lockwood as chief executive to drive change at the UK defence contractor. More here....
...A minor exception would be if the fire were found to have been caused by contractors working on the site....
..., “not . . . in a comparable position” had to be coined after the Financial Times revealed that a team of civil servants was watching Interserve’s ability to deliver security, probation, healthcare and building...
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