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...When the crusades ended it had already lived half a millennium....
...music manager Scooter Braun bought Taylor Swift’s former record label last year, it seemed like a fearless bet that recorded music revenues would hit their longest streak of growth since the turn of the millennium...
...“The philosophy over time is the expansion of the capital base for organic and inorganic opportunities,” says Mr Ashley....
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...“We view both the results and the latest developments in terms of the group’s organic and inorganic plans as a positive indicator for the group’s momentum in the near term as well as from a value investment...
...As Dutch was still widely spoken among Jakarta officials, he managed that relationship from then until retirement just short of the millennium – by which time Warburg had been subsumed into UBS of Switzerland...
...Corporate venture capital activity in Germany last peaked around the turn of the millennium when the digital revolution lured media companies such as Bertelsmann and Axel Springer into the market....
...In Hungary, Wanhua Industrial Group took control of Borsodchem, a chemical company, in a €1.2bn deal this year. But such moves could provoke political problems....
...Cofco, the grain trader, and Sinochem, the chemicals group, have been hunting for overseas agricultural deals, though with mixed success....
...Mr James moved from the business pages to the front page when he was called on to wind up the ill-fated Millennium Dome project for the government and later to carry out a review of waste in Labour government...
...While synthetic biology seeks to use living systems to capture solar energy, another approach is to find inorganic chemicals that can do what green plants have been doing naturally for hundreds of millions...
...He likes organic foods because they are free of pesticides and chemicals. He likes “GE” foods for the same reason – because they are engineered to be pest-resistant, they do not need pesticides....
...Its US subsidiary, Lyondell Chemical, was a constituent of Markit CDX HY indices series 2-9 and LCDX. Millennium America Inc, a subsidiary of Lyondell Chemical, was a constituent of CDX HY series 2-3....
...Through UNOP, Vodafone has helped develop an emergency response system for aid workers in Africa with its mobile phone technology, and Dow Chemical is working on a pilot programme to establish global guidelines...
...Earlier this month Takeda Pharmaceutical agreed to buy Boston-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals for $8.8bn in the biggest foreign acquisition by a Japanese pharmaceutical group....
...Kingboard Chemical – “Core laminate and printed circuit boards businesses are resilient despite the industry softness....
...As they announced their own initiatives or pledged to rally round the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, the corporate mood was again summed up by Ms Nooyi at the end of the week....
...Dwindling opportunities for takeovers of Portuguese bank Millennium BCP following the appointment of a new chief executive were highlighted by UBS brokers ....
...The story goes that wine was discovered by accident in the 4th millennium BC. The Persian king Jamshid was fond of grapes and had them jugged to consume at leisure....
...ICIrose 2.8 per cent to 642p as the chemicals group’s board recommended a 670p offer from Akzo Nobel of the Netherlands while Man Group rose 6.8 per cent to 512p as Peter Clarke, chief executive, bought...
...Portugal’s largest bank Millennium BCP was one of the most widely sought stocks across Europe on Wednesday as stakebuilding prompted talk of a takeover....
...Millennium BCP rose 5.5 per cent to €2.67....
...well as products, often in high-cost countries such as the US and Japan, where manufacturers have to rely on high-tech automation rather than cheap labour ■ It specialises in one, albeit broad, field of inorganic...
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