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...Stand by for a big legal battle, and “test of international commitments to human rights abuses and access to justice for some of the poorest people living in an ongoing public health emergency”, writes Peter...
...As part of the WPD deal, National Grid sold Narragansett Electric Company, its Rhode Island gas and electricity business, to PPL Corporation....
...Yet competing in this market — something that companies such as the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi Alliance and General Motors aim to do — takes vehicle manufacturers far out of their comfort zone....
...In the middle of last year, Mr Robson began pitching it to the world’s top auto component and carmakers, including General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota. About a dozen said they were interested....
...In Built to Last, Collins and co-author Jerry Porras identified 18 “visionary” companies that achieved exceptional performance and had a distinctive impact in the long run — including American Express, General...
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...At the same time, he wanted to expand internationally and chose industrial and manufacturing companies to take him into the UK with the purchase of Tetley Tea in 2000, and into Europe with the acquisition...
...The company believes that General Motors and Chrysler will also have to redesign their vehicles to meet strict new fuel-efficiency standards....
...Last year its sales topped those of General Motors, the icon of American industrial power for much of the 20th century....
...At JAL he has shown the value of clear, decisive command for a once-proud company long buried in bureaucracy and vested interest. This has involved some tough talk....
...James Callaghan, Wilson’s successor as prime minister, squashed proposals to split off telecoms and imposed an unwieldy industrial democracy board, with union, management and independent members....
...In recent years it has bought stakes in leading international companies such as Carlyle Group and General Electric. In November it invested as part of consortium in EMI, the music publisher....
...Man Group bounced 2.5 per cent to 245p after the hedge fund manager reported about $2.4bn of net fund inflows over April and May, largely from Japan....
...“Learning to fly a helicopter is becoming a new hobby in China as rich people are getting tired of golf and cars,” says Guan Xiwen, general manger of the school in Guangzhou....
...Mainland banks suffered broad losses with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China falling 1.7 per cent to Rmb5.35....
...“To me it is confirmation that the industry is moving in the right direction,” said Tim Faircliff, general manager of consumer media at Thomson Reuters and co-chair of the AOP....
...Belgium-based financial investor RHJ International could also make a second offer for GM’s cash-strapped European business, which includes Opel’s operations in Germany, Spain and Belgium, as well as the...
...In addition to its political work, the committee trains Russian engineers and managers, and supports youth exchange programmes....
...A Chinese company is to buy Hummer, the General Motors brand known for its military-inspired off-road vehicles and seen as a symbol of gas-guzzling, road-hogging American excess....
...In 1988, she became deputy director of the General Mining Council, a move that led to her working on international economic issues for President François Mitterrand....
...The falls on Friday came after several pieces of bad news, including a lack of interest in the latest Federal Reserve lending plan, fears over plans to tax high-earners at bailed out banks 90 per cent, and...
...We have noticed a growing interest of Canadian companies in cooperation with Gazprom of late....
...It was a similar story for the CBOE’s launch of credit event binary options on five US corporations including General Motors and Ford. There were no trades in the product as of Thursday....
...“We are not trying to criticise these companies but to make a general point: responsible business practices can be a value driver, but they need to be systematically embedded in the DNA of a company,” he...
...Exhibiting almost as much composure is Alberto Alessi, general manager of Alessi, an Italian company that makes upmarket kitchenware, who says: “In the light of the financial market turbulence, we have seen...
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