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...Northern Ireland’s economy ministry said: “The potential acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems is a commercial discussion between two companies....
...The only full-priced sale was apparently to Ehang itself. So why did my contact say Xpeng’s dual-mode flying car was a joke? Basically he thinks Xpeng is trying to do too much....
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...Share shock While TikTok’s fate in the US hangs in the balance as the Senate weighs a bill that would force its sale or have it banned, the video-sharing app faces another battle, this time against its...
...The 15 per cent stake owned by the Agnellis’ holding company Exor was a way for the company to broaden its investments beyond its major holdings, which include car companies such as Ferrari and Stellantis...
...This new rule could deal a blow to South Korea’s battery industry, which relies heavily on partnerships with Chinese companies for crucial materials and production....
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...The company’s next-generation HBM chip, the HBM3E, is due to enter mass production this year, following a more than 500 per cent year-on-year increase in sales of its HBM3 chip....
...At Stellantis, which owns the Ram and Jeep brands, European van and US truck sales account for just under half of the company’s profits, with per-vehicle margins dwarfing those of its passenger cars....
...Niel’s telecoms company Iliad on Wednesday said a proposal to merge its Italian business with Vodafone’s Italy unit had been rejected even after the group revised a previous bid....
...Parent company LVMH reported a record year of sales in 2023 as it reached €86.2bn in annual revenues....
...It culminated last week with the sale of a $5bn loan that backed KKR’s purchase of a stake in a healthcare technology company known as Cotiviti....
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...Parent company Match Group’s share price has fallen by more than a third in the past 12 months....
...Sales are growing at 20 to 30 per cent a year and almost everyone who tries them says they are never going back,” says Alex Brooks, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity....
...A third woman, Kim Trang Thi Bui Cheung, who worked in Grail’s sales department, is suing the company for harassment and discrimination in relation to its handling of racist comments....
...The most successful foreign companies have forged ties with India’s most powerful corporates and Cook met separately Reliance Industries chair Mukesh Ambani and Tata Group chair N....
...Kim Schwendeman, senior vice-president of payment adoption at Stax, a payment platform for small businesses, says similar tactics could give the Apple Pay Later programme an edge....
...Given deposits are refundable, not all of those orders will equal a truck sale. But it is a marker of popularity....
...The Company intends to file a number of motions with the Bankruptcy Court designed to facilitate the Company’s orderly evaluation of all strategic alternatives, including potentially a sale of the Company...
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...Trained in mergers and acquisitions, he has been instrumental in many of PepsiCo’s key transactions, such as the recent sale of a majority stake in its Tropicana and Naked Juice brands and the $3.2bn deal...
...“I didn’t hear CEOs worried about it until two years ago, like really starting to rethink their M&A,” said Kim Borden, a partner at McKinsey....
...This week, she denied rumours she was an unwilling combatant, but let talk of a lucrative sale persist....
...But, “it worked so well, the early investment in BYD was a minor miracle”. The company dethroned Tesla as the world’s biggest electric vehicle producer by sales last year....
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