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...Rentokil’s mergers and acquisitions since 2013 have generated a return on capital employed of 14.6 per cent, Citi estimated, adding: “We admire their M&A track record, delivering double-digit returns and...
...Strong balance sheets, on average, combined with the recent significant derating, might again stimulate increased M&A activity.”...
...“M&A can fix this if the market doesn’t first,” said the broker....
...“If I’m sitting on South Wacker Drive [in Chicago] I’m always going to be faster than someone sitting in Mumbai,” acknowledges Mr Lagesse....
...One religious scholar, Grant Wacker of Duke University, said “he brought Pentecostalism out of the backwoods and made it respectable. He transformed its image but also its practice.”...
...“Kookmin, based on its superior capital capacity, is actively pursuing M&A opportunities,” Kang Chung-won, chief executive of Kookmin Bank, told employees in a regular meeting this week....
...Investors were heavy sellers of retail stocks after M&S, the high street bellwether, lost 17 per cent following its worst quarterly sales figures in two years....
...In Germany, solar power company Q-Cells gained 1.4 per cent to €97.60 and chemical firm Wacker Chemie, which produces polysilicon used in solar panels added 2.9 per cent to €197.70....
...Germany’s Wacker Chemie, the world’s second-largest polysilicon supplier behind Hemlock of the US, is spending almost €1bn ($1.38bn) to build new production facilities and respond to a shortage that has...
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