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...MARCHJames by Percival Everett (Mantle/Doubleday)How would Huckleberry Finn read if it wasn’t Huck telling the story, but the enslaved African-American Jim?...
...Investindustrial has appointed Charles Dupont, the former chief of both Schroders and Axa, as senior principal and head of French coverage. He will be based between London and Paris....
...DuPont’s chief executive Marc Doyle and chief financial officer Jeanmarie Desmond are stepping down....
...International Flavors & Fragrances has agreed to buy DuPont’s nutrition and biosciences business for $26.2bn....
...Such a programme existed at the DuPont company when I started working there in 1958....
...Sovereigntist politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan took to Twitter on Sunday to warn against Alsace being turned into a “euro-district with separate laws”....
...Jim Fitterling, chief executive, said consumer demand was strong, but sales to the car industry were weak in Europe and just “OK” in the US and China....
...The seeds and agricultural chemicals company will be spun off on June 1, leaving a speciality chemicals group called DuPont....
...In May, the group announced Jim Fitterling, the COO of the material science division, would become CEO of Dow after the separation....
...Jim Sutton, mastermind of the indoor flower displays, showed me some of the differences in style and training....
...Andrew Liveris will step down in April as executive chair of DowDuPont, the chemicals group formed by the tie-up of Dow Chemical and DuPont said on Monday....
...Mr Liveris became executive chairman of DowDupont when it was created through the merger of Dow and DuPont on August 31 last year....
...Under the restructure, Remington planned to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and Jim Geisler, executive chairman, said the agreement was “prudent” due to “difficult industry conditions”....
...Goldman reported a whopping $911m in advisory revenue, up 38 per cent year over year (it cited the closings of such deals as Dow/DuPont and GE/Baker Hughes)....
...In recent high-profile proxy fights at DuPont and Arconic, the votes of the big three index funds proved decisive....
...But Peltz’s record in proxy fights is thin — he won one at Heinz more than a decade ago, while losing his fight to get a board seat at DuPont in 2015....
...Next on the agenda is the merger of Dow Chemical and Dupont, who are working to find bits to sell to convince the commission that the crop protection market will continue to create new chemicals to kill...
...Email jim.brunsden@ft.com Twitter @jimbrunsden...
...(Reuters) Dow/Dupont rethink Shareholder complaints work....
...Commenting on the appointment of Jim Fitterling as Dow’s new president and chief operating officer, Mr Liveris said (emphasis ours): I look forward to working with Jim and also with Howard Ungerleider in...
...“The Dow-Dupont, ChemChina-Syngenta deals created such large entities, the remaining three had to find some way of combining,” said Jim Thomas at ETC Group, which monitors the impact of concentration on...
...It would also “move swiftly” through the key stages of the deal with DuPont....
...Jim Coulter, the co-founder and co-chief executive of TPG, said McAfee could sharpen its focus and respond faster to the “rapidly-evolving” cyber security sector as an independent company....
...That deal provoked Jim Cramer, the host of the knockabout Mad Money TV show, to lambast Mr Liveris, claiming he “may be the single worst CEO ever to run a major company”....
...Jim Rossman, a Lazard managing director who advises companies on how to respond to activist investor campaigns, said activists had become an enduring part of the market....
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