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...The manufacturers have insisted the problems with the vehicles were largely down to insufficient logistics support and engineering expertise in the Bundeswehr, with German military units unable to fix relatively...
...This was being carried out by the army, the Federal Office for Equipping the Bundeswehr, the private logistics company responsible for repairing military equipment as well as Rheinmetall and KMW....
...Ford’s Puma, its smallest high-seating model, will offer an elect sion from its Romania plant from 2024....
...The results also included a one-off non-cash charge of $716m triggered by a deal to take control of Puma Energy, a fuel storage and petrol station business....
...His aim is to provide customers, such as sporting goods group Puma and furniture retailer Ikea, with end-to-end services for transporting products from factories to shops via sea and land....
...One way is to create a standalone subsidiary and bring in outside investors as it did with its logistics unit VL in 2013. “That can be an option,” he said....
...In South Africa, companies with names such as Takutata, Suzako Investment, Redfox Management, and African Connection Logistics were run by the same executives, emails and records indicate....
...Youri Mercier, deputy secretary-general at the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, whose members include Nike, Puma and Adidas, said delays of several weeks were having a “huge impact” on...
...So far, military engineers and logistics experts have helped scope and design nine field hospitals, while other members of the armed forces have delivered oxygen and personal protective equipment to health...
...He said that Trafigura, other shareholders and management could consider an initial public offering of Puma Energy, the oil storage and logistics company that it jointly owns with Angola, although the trader...
...He also has considerable knowledge of logistics, through his time as chief executive of Ocean Group, which became Exel, from 1994 to 2000....
...Trading houses have been moving away from their traditional middleman role of buying and selling commodities towards becoming vertically integrated groups, with interests spanning production, logistics,...
...Deutsche Post, the world’s biggest logistics group by revenue, became the latest European company to be squeezed by the strong euro, reporting that its first-quarter earnings came in below consensus....
...As a result, Trafigura and its rivals are moving from their traditional “middleman” business of buying and raw materials, where margins and are razor-thin, to investing in production, refining and logistics...
...Headline net profit of $2bn reflects the sale of a stake in Puma Energy, a downstream business. Next for sale could be a stake in Impala, a global terminals, warehouse and logistics business....
...“After the 2009 incident, our technical aviation and logistics people in-house have been doing work making sure we’re not overexposed to Super Pumas,” said one executive from a large oil company....
...to $6.1bn in its most recent quarter, fuelled by robust top line growth, impressive product innovation and strong market share gains in the US, China and Europe, outpacing arch-rivals including Adidas, Puma...
...And Trafigura sold a 20 per cent stake in Puma Energy, its terminals and storage business, to Sonangol Holdings, a subsidiary of Angola’s state-owned oil company in 2011....
...Trafigura recently spent about $800m through its Puma Energy unit acquiring two petrol station and oil import terminal companies in Australia....
...Backing these operations are 200 people based in Gothenburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Chicago who handle global logistics....
...In a presentation to bondholders last year, Trafigura said that it was open to “attract a financial or industrial partner and/or access public equity markets” for its Puma Energy subsidiary, which focuses...
...The mail and logistics group was marked down in the wake of a negative note from Goldman Sachs....
...Transport, tourism and logistics: Denmark’s AP Møller-Maersk topped the category for its business focus, strong ebit growth and sales, and successful acquisitions....
...Other good performers in the sector included Adidas Salomon and its arch rival Puma, the two leading German sports goods manufacturers....
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