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...The US healthcare company said on Friday that it would pay $335 a share in cash to acquire Shockwave, which specialises in manufacturing a catheter-based treatment for patients with calcified arteries....
...Haute-Facture Haute-Facture – a group of artisans belonging to l’Ameublement Français, the association promoting furniture and interior manufacturing in the decorative arts – has created an “artistic and...
...The company spent billions of dollars acquiring truck-stop operator Pilot Flying J and insurance conglomerate Alleghany in recent years, adding them to a portfolio that includes ice cream purveyor Dairy...
...This business is aiming to merge with L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition vehicle, or Spac, listed on the Nasdaq exchange and founded by LVMH-backed investment group L Catterton...
...This summer, L’Oréal’s venture capital arm Bold invested in the start-up Debut, which specialises in “cell-free” ingredient manufacturing, leading a $34mn series-B round of funding....
...Retail conglomerate Bestway has bought a stake worth £193mn in J Sainsbury, the UK’s second largest supermarket chain....
...Commended Flex O: 7; L: 7; I: 7; Total: 21 The legal team at manufacturing group Flex uses an artificial intelligence tool to generate reports identifying potential risks in contracts with customers and...
...“There are tremendous opportunities for Berkshire’s businesses to work together,” said Chris Rossbach, chief investment officer at fund manager J Stern & Co....
...The companies had often demanded onerous protections in the event of unforeseen side-effects and zero penalties for any manufacturing delays, he said. “The marketing is very imbalanced,” he said....
...It is true that as sales volumes of electric cars rise globally, demand for batteries will remain high amid a continuing shortage of manufacturing capacity....
...The attacker copied the target’s innovative technique and started manufacturing and selling the same items at a quarter of the price....
...The company disclosed on Saturday that it had bought a 41.4 per cent stake in truck stop chain Pilot Flying J for $8.2bn in January, giving it a majority stake in the business....
...The EU contracts were struck at a complex moment in the bloc’s vaccine rollout, as it faced supply problems from AstraZeneca and J&J as health authorities probed a suspected link between their shots and...
...“If the power now lies with the producers of the materials critical to manufacturing the batteries that go into the electric vehicles then the best way to play it is through the upstream,” Spencer says....
...It invests in large-cap companies in consumer goods, tech and manufacturing....
...Sadly, the original J-Pow has now left us, so aside from the automatically updated share prices, his spreadsheet has languished....
...Also pushing boundaries is Guerlain, which has collaborated with the Yves Klein Archives to create a 110th anniversary edition of its L’Heure Bleue perfume (€15,000)....
...Kreiz restructured the company by shedding a third of Mattel’s workforce and revamping its manufacturing supply chain in a bid to revive profits....
...These began to receive government support after a switch from investment in heavy manufacturing....
...The company, which sold $502m of its Covid-19 vaccine during the quarter, said sales of the jab are on track to reach $2.5bn in 2021, despite facing manufacturing challenges that had led to delays....
...More recently, Gorsky was forced to address manufacturing problems that tarnished J&J’s consumer health business as well as the company’s alleged role in the US opioid epidemic and lawsuits related to its...
...Cosmetics groups L’Oréal and Estée Lauder illustrate the diverging response among consumer groups....
...I feel like in the world today we have so much focus on manufacturing and so much investment in manufacturing....
...Paul Stoffels, J&J’s chief scientific officer, said accelerating immunisations around the world could help the fight against new coronavirus variants that might evade the vaccines....
...The problems with J&J’s manufacturing process came less than a week after President Joe Biden doubled his target for the number of shots to be administered during his first 100 days in office, to 200m....
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