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...Smart reads Blend or bulldoze The success of an M&A deal depends on how well the integration process goes, writes the FT’s Andrew Hill. But companies have taken different views on the subject....
...Authorities are preparing to issue digital banking licences in the coming weeks to six companies including internet and gaming group Tencent, Ant Financial, the payments business of e-commerce giant Alibaba...
...Naspers defends its control structure by pointing to other global media companies with dual share classes such as News Corp or Facebook....
...withdrawal from the single market could leave the company with a massive tax bill....
...The writers are respectively the FT’s Tokyo correspondents and M&A and corporate finance correspondent...
...To me the manic, flashing, multi-coloured eyes give off a creepy air of over-enthusiasm, the voice (a bit like E.V.A from Wall-E) is sterile, almost sinister....
...But as tempting as it may be to engage with Canadian Pacific, Norfolk Southern should stay wary....
...“The families have control that is disproportionate to the amount of shares they hold,” says Herald van der Linde, head of Asia-Pacific equity strategy at HSBC....
...In November BS Payment Singapore Pte Ltd sold to Kennedy Jayaprakas J M Aime, a Malaysian individual listed as a director of E-Credit....
...“Companies will be active, but I’m uncertain we will see an immediate explosion in contracts.”...
...In multiple terms it is also generous, valuing the group on a forward p/e of about 24 times....
...In 2000, he made a $20m investment in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba. Following the company’s initial public offering in the US in September, this stake is now worth $86bn....
...The company does not break out food deals specifically....
...As of 5:00 p.m., Pacific time, on September 25, 2014 (such time and date, the “Capitalization Date”), (A) 163,851,917 shares of Company Common Stock were issued and outstanding (which, for the avoidance...
...Most likely, say Macquarie, is that value effectively flows from the new marketing investors to Sinopec’s parent and sister E&C companies, with little remaining in listco....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...I’m pretty sure wearables will be the same, but don’t judge from what is in the market [now].”...
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...Retailer E-land has bought Italy’s Mandarina Duck....
...He also likes H&M, but as a shorting opportunity. He expects earnings to slump and the price to trend lower as the company suffers from high input costs and long supply chains....
...Although South Korean companies have grown more sophisticated in their M&A skills, investment bankers say they face challenges in post-merger integration due to cultural differences....
...In China, General Motors is preparing to deploy the EN-V, its tiny two-seat, self-driving experimental car, in the country’s largest “eco-city” on the outskirts of Tianjin....
...Since the Sinopec/ENN offer was announced, SK E&S announced it would purchase a further five per cent stake in China Gas in addition to its 7.8 per cent stake....
...“More M&As in the oil sands sector could materialise amid sustained high oil prices, because oil companies must tackle more challenging projects to ensure production growth, as the easy conventional oil...
...David Novak, Yum’s chief executive, called the company’s China business the “leading growth story in the restaurant industry” and said the company had plans to build on the 4,000 restaurants it already has...
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