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...CH2M, the US engineering firm, won a £170m contract last month to design the second phase of the £56bn HS2 — extending the London-Birmingham link on to Manchester and building a branch from the Midlands...
...The bottom line is there’s so many things that are beyond their control,” Mr Rogers said....
...Archer Daniels Midland, for example, in 2014 purchased Wild Flavors, a speciality food and drinks flavour company, for €2.3bn, the largest acquisition in its 112-year history....
...Three smaller deals which priced in 2016 — Paragon Commercial, Midland State and Argentina’s Grupo Supervielle — are all up....
...Mr Lee attributed the strong performance to reduced marketing costs and a streamlined product line-up, which boosted operating margins of low-to-mid-end phones....
...The dominant players — Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus Company and Glencore — are struggling with thin profit margins after bumper harvests since 2013 resulted in large stocks of grain...
...After joining the Mars graduate trainee scheme in 1988 in her home city of Dublin, her first international move was to the English Midlands for training....
...A Boots spokesman said the company was also looking at how it could benefit from fast-growing product lines such as “wearable technology”, by attracting customers keen to keep track of their health and fitness...
...Einar Parker hardly had a lot of spare hours: his full-time job at a car seat factory in Staffordshire involved working day shifts, night shifts and plenty of overtime on the assembly line, all to earn about...
...US foodservice group Middleby has published a huffy statement urging Aga shareholders to “consider the motivations of the approach for Whirlpool” for the historic Midlands range maker....
...From arranging train excursions in the early days for temperance society members between Midlands towns in the UK, to exotic steamship passages across the globe, he made an indelible impression on western...
...The plant was established in 1839 as the Derby Midland Railway Workshops just around the corner from where it stands today....
...Andy Sharman When Ryanair posts its full-year results analysts are expecting Europe’s biggest budget carrier to be in line for a bumper net profit of €865m....
...All services between England, Scotland and Wales on the Great Western, West Coast and East Coast lines are closed, as are the East Anglia, Cross Country and Midland routes....
...C BNP Paribas Investment Partners has appointed Susan Gostick (pictured) as head of the pension fund segment for its institutional business line....
...Melbourne Hall has passed by marriage to fortunate husbands and outliers, to Cokes, then Lambs, then Kerrs of the Lothian line....
...Dreyfus said second-half profits were in-line with the average of 2009-2011, excluding its Brazilian sugar subsidiary Biosev....
...To be fair, the recently-listed Merlin Entertainments has moved ahead nicely since its (private-equity backed) flotation, while Direct Line Insurance has also ticked up nicely since being listed as an independent...
...Concerns in Brussels that Delta Air Lines of the US controls Virgin Atlantic Airways were dismissed as “rubbish” by the boss of Sir Richard Branson’s UK airline....
...The plant was established in 1839 as the Derby Midland Railway Workshops just around the corner from where it stands today at Litchurch Lane....
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...It makes all the sense in the world that China wants to be connected somehow directly to the source.” 5) Juan Luciano, chief operating officer of Archer Daniels Midland, was also calm....
...Some of the world’s biggest commodities traders will take a strong line against a new plan to limit market speculation, arguing it would derail the everyday business of buying and delivering shipments of...
...A £1bn order to build trains for London’s Crossrail line is a timely present for Bombardier’s Derby factory as it celebrates its 175th anniversary....
...The move to build a global supply chain is in line with a shift in priorities for China....
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