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...Eduardo Marques, Valiant Capital: Long Seven & I Holdings As if Dan Loeb’s attention wasn’t enough, another hedgie is interested in the owner of 7-Eleven....
...The London-based company has a substantial debt load and needs to finance an ambitious €48bn product plan to revamp once popular brands, such as Alfa Romeo, and propel other marques such as Jeep and Maserati...
...“The jeanswear industry is automated, huge and dominated by existing brands,” says Marques....
...The JVs tend to produce the foreign marques’ smaller sedans and SUVs, while their biggest and most expensive models — such as BMW 7-series and Mercedes S-Class sedans — are still imported from Europe....
...Martin Winterkorn, Volkswagen chief executive, told the Financial Times that Europe’s largest carmaker by sales and owner of several luxury marques, including Audi and Bugatti, was experiencing intensifying...
...Having won a case against a network of Chinese counterfeiters earlier this year, Burberry is itself no stranger to vigorously defending its marque....
...“We are seeing some high-frequency traders becoming old-fashioned quants,” says Jose Marques, head of global electronic equity trading at Deutsche Bank....
...for the planned combination with Europe’s largest carmaker to form an automotive group with 10 brands that would range from premium carmaker Audi to luxury sports car maker Lamborghini and mass-market marque...
...Operating profit at the group’s core brand, VW, was crimped by 79 per cent to €561m, in spite of the marque benefiting hugely from European scrapping incentive programmes....
...The agreement reverses an audacious attempt by Porsche over several years to take over Volkswagen, which makes more than 6m vehicles annually under nine different marques....
...Tata Motors and the main trade union at Jaguar and Land Rover will meet in London on February 8 following signs that Ford Motor’s talks to sell the two marques are nearing an agreement....
...Ford Motor has set a deadline of this Friday for second round bids to purchase Jaguar, the luxury marque used to ferry British government ministers to meetings....
...The brand and its sister Jaguar marque, which their owner Ford Motor wants to sell, are investing £700m ($1.43bn) in CO2 improvements in their five-year business plan, with most of the money earmarked for...
...A second former head of Ford Motor has entered the bidding for Jaguar and Land Rover, the US carmaker’s two UK premium marques....
...Mahindra & Mahindra is conducting due diligence on Jaguar and Land Rover, put up for sale by Ford, but its preference is for the UK utility vehicle-maker rather than the luxury marque, say people close to...
...Revelations that Tata Motors was planning to target marques such as Jaguar and Land Rover, which together lost £159m ($318m) before tax last year at their core UK operations, have left even long-standing...
...steelmaker Corus and Tetley Tea – has emerged alongside rival Indian producer Mahindra & Mahindra and US buy-out group One Equity Partners on Ford Motor’s shortlist to buy Jaguar and Land Rover, its UK luxury marques...
...Mr Nasser, an early suitor for Aston Martin – the third UK marque Ford sold in March’s £479m ($943m) deal to a Kuwaiti-led consortium – could not be reached for comment on Friday....
...The company is also trying to make its upmarket Cadillac, offroad Hummer and cheap Chevrolet marques into global brands, although both Cadillac and Chevy will sell vehicles specific to certain regions....
...What irritates many investors and analysts is that only two weeks ago at the Frankfurt motor show the company promised to use its cash to invest in its own marques....
...Nanjing has yet to formulate its plans for restarting manufacturing in Birmingham, saying only that it hopes to build Rover’s MG marque through a deal with GB Sports Car Co, a new venture run by former Rover...
...“We still think Sabadell is a very attractive long-term story, but, short-term, we believe its performance might be capped by profit-taking,” said analyst Arturo De Frias Marques....
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