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...Wakatsuki, Nippon Paint’s former chief financial officer and head of mergers and acquisitions for Merrill Lynch in Japan, took over at the top of the company in 2021....
...Elliott’s move, which marks its fourth major public foray into the Japanese stock market after engagements with Toshiba, SoftBank and Dai Nippon Printing, targets a company with a property empire that stretches...
...The biggest attempt to date came in December, with Nippon Steel launching an $15bn all-cash bid for US Steel....
...The activist fund Elliott Management has become one of the largest shareholders of Dai Nippon Printing — a 146-year-old Japanese conglomerate with a huge but unheralded global share in components of electric...
...In late 2022, as US activist fund Elliott Management was quietly building a large stake in Dai Nippon Printing, the family-run Japanese conglomerate was searching for a new business plan bold enough to lift...
...An 84-year old Japanese chemical company once known for its fertilisers, is now a key input for cutting-edge sectors....
...Sekisui is the latest in the wave of Japanese companies prowling for cross-border transactions. Nippon Steel snapped up US Steel for $14.9bn last month....
...On Monday, the Pittsburgh icon US Steel announced it had reached a deal to sell itself to Japan’s Nippon Steel at a total enterprise value of $15bn....
...The bank originated as the Nippon Credit Bank, which was among the highest-profile casualties of the protracted fallout from the collapse of Japan’s 1980s property bubble....
...Demand for electric cars has galvanised the $700mn market, dominated by Dai Nippon and Resonac, formerly known as Showa Denko. Dai Nippon’s shares peaked in 2006....
...Shares in Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing soared on Friday by their biggest-ever margin after the company appeared to bow to pressure from activist investor Elliott Management by announcing a record share buyback...
...A budget carrier specialising in domestic routes, IndiGo flew more than twice as many passengers last year as AirAsia, Singapore Airlines, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways....
...companies....
...Last year it made an operating loss of £1.5m on turnover of £44m, according to Companies House accounts....
...Formed in 2017 to integrate the liner services of Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Mitsui OSK Lines and Nippon Yusen Kaisha, ONE made profits of $2.6bn in the quarter to the end of June, more than 15 times...
...In 2018, Hitachi Chemical, the subsidiary which has since became a consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko, admitted to falsifying data....
...’s company....
...It is the latest innovation from Japan’s low-tech paper companies, as they struggle to reinvent themselves. Nippon Paper started selling the product this month to restaurants....
...with Mr Goh’s company....
...billion (WSJ) H2O suffers payment problems on illiquid bonds (FT) Nikola targets critical YouTube accounts in copyright crackdown (FT) Suez backs French buyout group Ardian’s eleventh-hour bid (FT) Nippon...
...That roster includes two of Osaka's corporate partners, leading national airline All Nippon Airways and instant-noodle purveyor Nissin Foods....
...Showa Denko offered to pay up to ¥964bn to acquire Hitachi Chemical, beating rival bids from Nitto Denko, Bain Capital and Carlyle....
...Confidence has already been damaged by funds’ exposure to stressed real estate companies and shadow banks, some of which have gone bankrupt....
...BTL acquired the technology from Heesung Chemical, which decided it could not compete with the two dominant Japanese manufacturers — Dai Nippon Printing and Showa Denko — on price....
...But those discussions ended after Nippon Paint gatecrashed with an all-cash bid for Axalta....
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