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...By the end of September, his personal debt to the tech group topped $5bn....
...This century saw the hotel undergo a full renovation, re-emerging in 2011 as part of the Rosewood group....
...The lighting conditions at the South Pole are very peculiar, so you have really low incident angle light....
...Famous faces from Silicon Valley to Wall Street to Washington seem to be churning out Spacs at lighting speed....
...But a multi-month shootout to acquire German lighting and sensor group Osram moved closer to completion this week as Austria’s AMS raised $1.8bn in a rights issue to help pay for the deal....
...And in October, Austrian chipmaker AMS’s €4bn bid for lighting group Osram did not convince enough investors. The lone deal that was accepted: KKR’s €6.8bn bid for publisher Axel Springer....
...US media and telecoms groups have hurtled towards consolidation in recent years to defend their business against one common enemy: Netflix....
...Just this week, German lighting group Osram, with a market value of €4bn, said it was in talks to be acquired by Carlyle and Bain Capital....
...Today it is no longer even the US’s most valuable industrial group (it was overtaken last year by Boeing, a Dow survivor)....
...He was an entrepreneur who ran a theatre lighting company....
...Westinghouse’s alternating-current method, which could send power across far distances and which Edison said would “kill a customer within six months”, eventually won out to become the industry standard, lighting...
...Lumileds had been run as a standalone company since 2015 as part of a wider restructuring that has seen Philips shed its lighting businesses, which culminated in the IPO of Philips Lighting earlier this...
...Tech Pro’s assets include an LED lighting business, a Shanghai real estate group and the French second division football club Sochaux Montbeliard....
...As the Olympic torch makes its way to London, social media are lighting up with posts about the games....
...TV sales fell from 25 per cent of total group revenue in 2006 to 13 per cent in 2010. The division now accounts for 3 per cent of the group’s employees, down from 6 per cent in 2006....
...He has transformed the Dutch company from a predominantly semiconductor business into a lighting, healthcare and consumer electronics group....
...“They represented writers, such as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams,” she says, lighting the first of several cigarettes. “They were very proper and wore hats.”...
...Philips has made huge strides in transforming itself from a sprawling agglomeration of businesses to a leaner group focused on medical, lighting and high-end household appliances....
...Its owners include Providence Equity Partners and Texas Pacific Group. Comcast, the cable TV company, and Sony also have a stake in the studio....
...“There are capacity problems in Europe manufacturers can't cope with the demand,” says Tony Brown, group finance manager....
...Visteon is likely to close or sell several operations in coming months as it focuses on interiors, climate controls, and lighting and electronic systems....
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