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...Among the early adopters are IBM, Danone USA and Pirelli Tire North America....
...As Mr Tronchetti Provera and Mr Witmer have both recently learned, when you get into bed with China Inc, there is no telling who you are going to wake up with....
...€774m writedown on UK unit Amey (FT) Netherlands wants Air France-KLM to ‘perform better’ (FT) M&S paying ‘high price’ for Ocado, say analysts (FT) ChemChina is said to mull cutting stake in tiremaker Pirelli...
...Pirelli’s executive vice-chairman talks to the FT about his contrarian view on dealmaking and the synergy between man and machine....
...Girardeau worked at Boston Consulting Group, with a secondment at Time Inc UK. Hollingsworth worked at The Consortium Education and pribeforeat at Connect Group. He started his career at PWCPwC 2007....
...In 2015, it paid €7.3bn for Pirelli, the Italian tyre company....
...Marco Tronchetti Provera, chief executive of Italian tyremaker Pirelli, said everything depended on how the economy develops over the next months....
...Those living in the country, such as Pirelli’s Mr Dal Pino, have felt the deterioration in their own daily lives....
...It came a mere four months after chairman Ren finalised a $7.7bn takeover of Italian tyremaker Pirelli....
...The outward embrace of China Inc raises a series of challenges for target companies and countries, he adds....
...Questions over the strategy and sustainability of China Inc’s outward embrace do not end with ChemChina....
...Nevertheless, SoEs dominated a surge of Chinese investment into Europe last year, raising a series of questions over the suitability of China Inc as an owner of European corporate assets....
...China became the biggest investor in Italy when China National Chemical Corp announced the acquisition of the automotive tyres producer Pirelli last March....
...ChemChina’s agreed €7bn buyout of tyremaker Pirelli capped a frenetic period that saw Chinese buyers take stakes in a range of Italian companies, from infrastructure to fashion brands....
...Mr Tronchetti Provera, 67, joined Pirelli by dint of his first marriage to Cecilia Pirelli, daughter of founder Leopoldo Pirelli....
...Look at the biggest deals and China Inc appears to view Europe as simply a vast source of energy, and the expertise that goes with it....
...These included the $8.6bn takeover of the UK’s Rexam by rival US can maker Ball and the proposed $7.9bn acquisition of Italian tyremaker Pirelli by ChemChina....
...As China Inc goes global, buying up the likes of Italian tyre company Pirelli, its executives are looking for more subtle ways of introducing their businesses to the rest of the world....
...China's "merger king" is set to take control of Italian tyremaker Pirelli, having sewn up half-a-dozen purchases in countries including France, Norway, Israel and Australia....
...China’s “merger king” is set to take control of Italian tyremaker Pirelli, having sewn up half-a-dozen purchases in countries including France, Norway, Israel and Australia....
...Paolo Dal Pino, president of Latin America for Italian tyremaker Pirelli, said his Brazilian production facility began buying 2015 energy futures a few months ago in anticipation of tighter power, paying...
...* China’s factory output weakens * Russian ruble falls to 2009 crisis levels * Lazard hires former Brazilian central banker *Leftwinger’s surge in Mexico poll hits peso * Pirelli opens first Mexican...
...Nick Woodman, founder and chief executive of GoPro, says Pirelli asked for its latest tyre ad to look like a GoPro video and used the tiny cameras rather than professional ones costing thousands of dollars...
...Italy represents about 8 per cent of revenues at Pirelli, which has plants in South and North America, the Middle East, Russia, and China....
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