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...One investment by Working Capital that is achieving scale is Altana AI, a New York-based start-up whose clients include US Customs and Border Protection, BMW, Merck and Maersk....
...Not one to miss out on the automotive arms race, the Air can pack up anywhere between 480bhp on the entry-level Pure to 1,200bhp in its newly revealed, all-sporting Sapphire edition....
...“There will be a reorganisation of the [Russian] market,” said one person close to one of the Chinese carmakers. “They [the Chinese brands] will definitely be opportunistic.”...
...There followed the great financial crisis of 2007-09....
...Germany’s three major car manufacturers, VW, Mercedes and BMW, suspended their sales or operations within days of the invasion....
...Jungwirth has now identified 199 companies that meet his ‘Champions’ criteria: they must be headquartered in Austria; be at least the number one, two or three in their industry globally, or the number one...
...Huge adventure motorcycles took off as a result of the global tours completed by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman in 2004 and 2007....
...The Bertarelli family, former owners of Swiss biotechnology company Serono, which was acquired by Merck in 2007 for $13.3bn, now manage their wealth through Waypoint Capital....
...The day Tony Blair stepped down as UK prime minister in 2007, he arrived in his constituency by train and reportedly headed instinctively towards a waiting BMW, before being told he would have to squeeze...
...In Europe, a report by research firm darts-ip found that between 2007 and 2017 the average number of lawsuits involving patent trolls has risen roughly 20 per cent each year....
...“Ralf [Speth] thinks in one direction, Guenter [Butschek, Tata Motors CEO] in another, and both report into Chandra,” says one former senior Tata director. “It’s a mess.”...
...But no one knows yet when, how quickly and with what conditions the lockdowns will be lifted....
...According to a 2007 survey, nine of the 23 richest Belgian families could trace their fortunes to colonial Congo....
...I would say 900 miles in a day on one of these bikes is totally doable.”...
...CATL supplies lithium-ion batteries to some of the largest car companies in the world, including Daimler and BMW, and has about half of the Chinese battery market....
...But the launch of the Qashqai in 2007 led to a surge in sleeker crossovers, such as today’s Peugeot 3008 and Volvo XC40....
...The building will have green certification and each apartment comes with a BMW i3 electric car as well as a parking space with charger....
...The title refers to the street he grew up on, which is around the corner from where the BMW is parked....
...Honda’s decision to quit Swindon — the first closure of an overseas vehicle factory in its 71-year history and the first in the UK since Peugeot shut its Coventry plant in 2007 — has stoked fears of long-term...
...Mr Duesmann, a mechanical engineer by training, joined BMW in 2007 as head of the powertrain unit. He became a BMW boardmember in October 2016....
...Deals with carmakers BMW and Peugeot for its digital maps and traffic information were unveiled at this week’s Paris Motor Show....
...BMW, in an alliance with Samsung and BASF, last year launched a pilot programme intended to improve conditions at one mine in the DRC, in an attempt to make small-scale mining safer....
...All were sold between 2007 and 2010 as Ford sought to stave off bankruptcy; they have since thrived under new ownership....
...General Motors celebrated being the world’s largest carmaker for the 76th straight year in 2007. It was sitting on $25bn in cash. Eighteen months later, it was bankrupt....
...As one banker puts it, Tesla is on track to be a premium carmaker that could dent sales of BMW and Mercedes — but it is unlikely to kill them. “Tesla is doing a great job,” he says....
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