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...The company has also changed at the top....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...gas company Praxair on its $65bn merger with German rival Linde....
...“Fundamentally it’s very difficult for chemicals companies to grow faster than [gross domestic product], except in niches,” says Kirk McIntosh, partner at the Valence Group, a specialist investment bank....
...Bombarded Day two of the Bombardier v Boeing tariff scandal and attention has turned on the British government’s motivation to fight back against proposed US action against the Canadian company....
...AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto) that are still pending approval from the competition watchdog....
...(BBC) Video of the day Google v Apple, round 2 As Google again draws level with Apple as the world’s largest company, John Authers looks at the historic performance of companies once they have become the...
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...Anne McIntosh, Conservative chair of the committee, welcomed the opt-out proposal recently adopted by EU ministers – allowing some countries to speed up GM crop approvals while others maintain national bans...
...In the west, glass-fibre-reinforced plastics, developed by Monsanto to protect radar equipment on US military aircraft, were re-worked into moulded furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman...
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