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...CD&R said Lewis, who spent almost three decades at consumer goods group Unilever, will help source and execute deals as well as support its portfolio of companies across Europe....
...At the same time, a shortage of housing is providing a floor beneath construction activity....
...Another proxy adviser, Glass Lewis, has recommended clients support both Bock and von Bomhard....
...Many of the businesses now underwrite their own debt deals, lending either directly to companies or against a host of assets....
...Net profits for bank and broker Nomura surged almost 670 per cent from a year earlier in its latest quarter, as Tokyo stocks eclipsed their 1980s bubble-era high and Japanese companies raced to raise funds...
...But for some years now JR Central, the company that operates the existing shinkansen line between Tokyo and Osaka, has been looking to best itself with a ¥9tn ($60bn), 500km/h magnetically levitating train...
...It includes the carmaker Subaru, soy sauce maker Kikkoman, construction machinery giant Komatsu and Toyo Suisan, a producer of cheap ramen noodles that have become a huge hit in the US as inflation bites...
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...But the reality, of course, is that companies, and in particular, sectors like construction and so on, do have a very high demand for people....
...And so you have a lot of inexperienced construction companies feeding into the problems, and it’s Russian businesses that are benefiting from that....
...points as the weak yen and a run of strong company results led by SoftBank, Toyota and other blue-chip companies continued to boost market confidence....
...The declining numbers for public works, machinery orders and construction starts, he says, made it a “strange time” to be tightening....
...Blank travelled from New York to Japan last year to promote the use of industrial robots to automate the most labour-intensive process for construction companies: the assembly of reinforcement bars....
...Nikkei Inc, which calculates and publishes the index, owns the Financial Times....
...Fellow proxy adviser Glass Lewis also highlighted Botín’s pay rise as a concern in its report seen by the FT, but backed the overall package because of the bank’s strong results....
...A newsletter from Casey Lewis, a former editor at Teen Vogue, has reignited interest in this Dazed article on Frutiger Aero — a shiny, techno-optimist aesthetic from the early 2000s....
...Companies are tackling the demographic challenge by introducing more avatars, robots and artificial intelligence to the workforce in key sectors such as construction, agriculture and retail....
...“Any technology is all about [securing] repeat financing, particularly for capital-intensive companies,” he told me....
...Adrian Lewis, Inchcape’s chief financial officer, said there were several offers for its retail sites and following the deal, Inchcape would largely be a “pure-play” car distribution company....
Lenders in US, Asia and Europe hit by exposure to sector struggling with lower occupancy and higher interest rates
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...“This means further deceleration from the highs of 2022 when close to 65 per cent of all flows into the European ETF market were directed to ESG-themed strategies,” said Jose Garcia-Zarate, associate director...
...But if the M&A deals of the 1980s were a demonstration of Japan Inc’s ambitions to take on the world, corporate executives say today’s overseas rush is driven by the need to find new revenue outside their...
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