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...In the middle of the country, there is Landis Technologies, which has received investment from entertainers Jay-Z and Will Smith, as well as venture firm Sequoia Capital.But by far the biggest rent-to-buy...
...“The current juggernauts are really hard to stop,” said Kevin Landis, chief investment officer at Firsthand Capital Management....
...Landis+Gyr fits that profile.”...
...S&P data records that Kirkbi holds stakes in such pulse-quickening businesses as Nilfisk, which makes cleaning equipment, Swiss metering group Landis & Gyr and Nordic Waterproofing....
...Rosanna Landis-Weaver, programme manager of executive compensation at As You Sow, said the biggest fund managers typically advocated for engaging with companies rather than voting against them....
...Richard Mora, Landis+Gyr’s chief executive, told the FT that the planned sale would release Landis+Gyr from the constraints it has faced as a subsidiary of cash-strapped Toshiba....
...Toshiba confirmed this week that if no buyer materialises, it will float smart meter subsidiary Landis+Gyr in Zurich later this year....
...Landis + Gyr had net revenues last year of $1.66bn. Adjusted Ebitda profits were $212.0m....
...These trends are opening new opportunities for Landis+Gyr to sell software and services to utilities....
...Rosanna Landis Weaver, programme manager of the CEO pay initiative at As You Sow, said there is growing “awareness of the hazards of outlandish CEO pay packages”....
...Landis+Gyr, based in Switzerland, could achieve a valuation of $2bn....
...Hitachi is also looking to team up with private equity group CVC Capital Partners to acquire Landis+Gyr, a Swiss maker of “smart meter” transmission technology that Toshiba is considering selling, two people...
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...Kevin Landis, the chief investment officer at Firsthand Capital Management, remembers a time 20 or so years ago when the tech earnings season involved digesting results from hundreds of companies — both...
...It is clearly a force to be reckoned with, and, as Ms Landis Weaver points out, with power comes responsibility....
...+Gyr set to opt for IPO over straight sale (Reuters) New Toshiba chip sale doubts as US ruling delayed (FT) Church & Dwight to buy Water Pik (Reuters) Multi-Color to buy labels unit of Constantia for...
...Toshiba says Landis+Gyr’s earnings are growing steadily and it did not see any need for a writedown. Yet there is little question that the conglomerate is haunted by its recent history of dealmaking....
...+Gyr (BBG) DE Shaw joins call for removal of Petropavlovsk’s Hambro (FT) Freeport, China Moly agree to end talks on cobalt assets (Reuters) Elliott calls for BHP shake-up under new chairman (FT) SS&C...
...+Gyr seeks IPO to fuel global smart meter growth (FT) Siemens CEO says rail partnerships possible alternative to M&A (Reuters) Dropbox seeks to hire IPO underwriters (Reuters) Follow the FT’s deals team...
...Firsthand Technology Value Fund, run by Silicon Valley veteran Kevin Landis — whose unicorn holdings include Cloudera, Sunrun and Gilt Groupe — is worth barely half that; BDCA Venture, which mainly invests...
...He also owned substantial stakes in smart grid maker Landis+Gyr, acquired by Toshiba for $2.3bn in 2011, and Heinz, which was bought by Warren Buffett for $28bn last year....
...And Messrs Luis and Suhl are but two of a group that includes Pierre Denis, former Asia managing director of Christian Dior who took the reins at Jimmy Choo in July 2012, and Christopher Zanardi-Landi, who...
...Burke, who became CEO last December, is getting his team together, and that includes Ms Arnault, appointed in June, as well as her co-deputy (who for some reason gets no gossip time), Christophe Zanardi-Landi...
...Last year it bought Landis+Gyr, a Swiss maker of “smart meter” transmission technology, for $2.3bn, and in May it formed an alliance with Unison, a South Korean manufacturer of wind turbines....
...This is a little elevated, courtesy of buying Landis+Gyr, the Swiss smart grid group, and its forced acquisition of the majority of Westinghouse, the US nuclear engineer....
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