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...In July, Lasry was flying high as he hoisted the NBA’s championship trophy as an owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, a once-hapless basketball team that Lasry purchased with two fellow Wall Street billionaires...
...He is also co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA basketball team....
...One of the issues that Mr Foley and co-founders Tom Cortese and Yony Feng highlighted was that equipment on the market was dated. “The bikes were so unsexy....
...He had earlier considered purchasing the Milwaukee Bucks, which were sold for $550m in May to hedge fund moguls Wesley Edens, the founder of Fortress Investment Group, and Marc Lasry, the co-founder of Avenue...
...Last month, Journal Communications, which publishes local titles in the US such as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, announced plans to merge with E.W....
...“The challenge you’ve got is there are already existing supply chains for these designs,” says Keith Cochrane, chief executive of Weir Group, which supplies various types of valves to civil nuclear installations...
...While major oil service companies such as Halliburton prefer to make their own pumps and operate a vertically integrated business model, Weir is keen to target its growing portfolio of pumps and valves directly...
...The medical device manufacturer is banking on strong revenue from its transcatheter aortic-valve implant (TAVI) device, a treatment for aortic stenosis – a heart disorder – that does not involve an operation...
...Last October, GE agreed a $3bn deal to buy Dresser of the US, which makes engines, pumps and valves for the oil and gas industry, and in December it announced the $1.2bn acquisition of Wellstream, a UK-based...
...Weir Group, which makes valves and pumps for the oil, mining and power industries, has won a $15m (£9.4m) contract to supply parts for the first US nuclear plant to be built in 25 years....
...Some frequent past winners, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune lost out to publications including The Seattle Times and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, while the cartooning...
...“All the market operators keep placing oil in storage,” said Francisco Blanch, head of global commodities research at Merrill Lynch & Co. in London....
...At the headquarters of Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, 60 or so buildings have sprung up around a site where Frederick Miller first brewed the company’s amber-coloured ale in 1855....
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