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...More than 60 per cent of its facilities are in burgeoning sunbelt states....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...SoftBank founder predicts WeWork V for Victory Masayoshi Son admitted today he had turned a “blind eye” to governance lapses at WeWork but promised a “sharp V-shaped recovery” for the shared offices provider...
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...The marriage of technical and legal innovation at Uber in Québec has since been adopted by Airbnb, the vacation rental platform, and put forward by the province’s government as a preferred solution for companies...
...on the rental car canary in the coal mine — FT AlphavilleUber, the urban planner — FT Alphaville...
...According to a Jefferies analyst quoted in news reports, Ashtead’s Sunbelt equipment hire business could generate $50m in rental revenues from rebuilding work and flood defence spending following the earlier...
...Related links: Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense? – FT Alphaville Who are Tesla’s competitors, really?...
...“The pitch was always that Amazon is a trade off between rising physical store rental costs and structurally declining technology costs,” he says....
...US tool hire rival United Rentals saw its fourth quarter revenues drop 3 per cent to $1.52bn and adopted a cautious tone for 2016....
...Ashtead operates two national shop networks, both of which are number two in their markets: A-Plant in the UK and Sunbelt rentals in the US and Canada....
...Sunbelt saw first-quarter equipment rental revenue rise 23 per cent....
...Not surprisingly, Ashtead’s shares command a premium over its peers (including US rival United Rentals, whose returns are lower). That looks deserved — at least until the cycle turns....
...Its American business, Sunbelt, provides more than 90 per cent of group profit and the shares are valued for growth because the US has been slower to adopt equipment rental than mature markets such as the...
...On spotting John McCaw in the lobby of the George V hotel in Paris, Donald Pels cracked a smile....
...“The scale of the combined company will support accelerated growth and deployment of capital across our high-growth Sunbelt markets,” said Eric Bolton Jr, MAA chief executive....
...The FTSE 250 company, which earns almost 85 per cent of revenues from its US business Sunbelt, said that its $500m debt refinancing had enabled it to keep its portfolio of rental equipment relatively new...
...The US equipment hire market is highly fragmented with the top four players – United Rentals, RSC, Sunbelt and Hertz Rental Equipment – accounting for just 22 per cent of a market worth about $27bn in 2010...
...The FTSE 250-listed company, which operates in the US and the UK under the Sunbelt rentals and A-Plant brand names, respectively, said it was gaining from a “structural shift” towards rentals, which were...
...I’d say the George V for sheer over-the-topness and people-watching, lunch at Noura, a treat from Goyard and dinner at Ferdi....
...A battle of the boxes began today between Blockbuster and Netflix, the principal online DVD rental services in the US....
...Strangely, Netflix – the online DVD rental site – also suffered a site meltdown, but apparently for reasons unrelated to the San Francisco power outage....
...Amazon’s move will be seen as a threat to online DVD rental companies such as Netflix and to the smaller video sites....
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