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...“We realised that you were only seeing a third of it”, says Clare Wright, co-founder of Wright & Wright....
...Cnooc had tried but failed to interest foreign investors in the Wuhu block, but potential partners have shied away in part because of the dense population in the area....
...Opens November. 67 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5ES, 020 3000 6767, 67pallmall.co.uk Photographs: Niall McDiarmid...
...www.mosobamboosurfaces.co.uk www.slimliteglass.co.uk www.urbnrok.com www.vphase.co.uk...
...Meanwhile, Wuhu, a midsized Chinese city in the eastern province of Anhui, backtracked on a decision to ease property restrictions....
...Chery, based in Wuhu in China’s Anhui province, is one of the country’s largest privately owned carmakers....
...Sanan Optoelectronics Co., China’s leading LED producer, spent around 12bn yuan on building a new plant in Wuhu, Anhui Province to double capacity by 2012....
...Two years ago, it started up another factory in Wuhu, Anhui province. The minimum wage in Wuhu is Rmb420, less than half that in cities....
...The US and Chinese carmakers are planning to make subcompact cars at Chery’s plant in Wuhu and Chrysler had previously said it hoped to begin selling the vehicles in Latin America in 2008-09, and in North...
...He is also non-executive chairman of Trinity Mirror and was chairman at BPB when the plasterboard maker was taken over by Saint-Gobain of France in 2005....
...He was also chairman at BPB when the plasterboard maker was taken over by Saint-Gobain of France in 2005....
...The same year saw BPB , the plasterboard group, being bought by France’s Saint-Gobain. The French building materials group paid £3.9bn for the business....
...“The plasterboard market in Europe is split between BPB, France’s Lafarge and German group Knauf. They’ve all got too much market share to combine in any other way....
...Some of the flows were said to be related to Saint-Gobain’s offer for plasterboard maker BPB....
...BPB, the world’s largest maker of plasterboard, gained 3.8 per cent to 769½p after it confirmed it had agreed a 775p a share takeover by Saint-Gobain, the French owner of the Jewson chain of builders’ merchants...
...News that French rival Lafarge was planning to up plasterboard production knocked BPB down 0.4 per cent at 528p although initial fears eased as analysts said there was little overlap to BPB....
...The glass industry probe follows cartel investigations against other building materials sectors such as cement and plasterboards....
...Hanson added 8.6 per cent to 499.75p, Marshalls firmed 7 per cent to 323p, plasterboard-maker BPB added 4.8 per cent to 491.25p and minnow Ennstone was up 7.4 per cent at 40p....
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