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...the company could focus on a self-driving “robotaxi”....
...Analysts are predicting they will show the lowest gross margin since early 2017, when it had just begun manufacturing its first mass-market car, the Model 3....
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...James Wilson, senior analyst at market intelligence provider ICIS, said the recycled plastics market would continue to underperform for the foreseeable future....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 21. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Among leading Chinese cities, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, hubs for high-tech and manufacturing companies, were doing relatively better, said James MacDonald, Shanghai-based head of China research for Savills...
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...The manufacturing concentration is glaring for a risk-averse company widely lauded for leading the world in supply chain brilliance....
...Hunter Douglas, a Rotterdam-based publicly listed company, has been controlled by the Sonnenberg family for more than 100 years, during which it has grown from a machine tool distribution and manufacturing...
...“Buying an insurance company that looks a lot like Berkshire sounds like it could fit well,” said James Shanahan, an analyst at Edward Jones. “And perhaps Buffett needs a win.”...
...James Womack, the research director at MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program and a pioneer in adopting Toyota’s “lean manufacturing” ideas in the US auto sector, remembers being blown away by Scaringe...
...But it had hoped to bring its 15 manufacturing sites and 5,000 employees in-house as part of the deal....
...Its railroad business (perhaps 15 per cent of the company’s value) is a pseudo-monopoly with terrific pricing power....
...“For all the talk of key man dependence, the company is working well, which was plainly not the case 18 months ago,” says James Anderson, the Baillie Gifford fund manager and Tesla investor....
...James Shanahan, an analyst with Edward Jones, estimates that Berkshire has sold $13.6bn more in stock than it has purchased since early 2020....
...How would we go about manufacturing something of this scale? The particular concept that we're looking at is one that would be extremely modular in character....
...The companies are testing whether a shot tailored to the Delta variant is more effective in studies set to begin next month....
...Decoupling denied: Japan Inc is still laying its bets on China in spite of the US-China rift....
...It plans to start manufacturing aircraft later this year on a 450,000-square-foot facility it designed with Toyota....
...Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington...
...Abel shepherds the company’s non-insurance investments, including the Burlington Northern Railroad, manufacturing businesses, and utilities he once ran as chief executive....
...Since the death of Terence Conran and the unedifying decamping of James Dyson to Singapore, UK manufacturing and design has missed a figurehead with the brio and brilliance of Wedgwood....
...The Entreprise Générale du Cobalt will eliminate child labour in the mining sector and also trace the cobalt as it moves into the manufacturing process, according to the company’s managing director Jean-Dominique...
...In Europe, the chief of Atlas Copco, Sweden’s biggest company, has told the FT he is expecting big growth rates in automated manufacturing....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
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