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...“They will be worried that their sensitive R&D and financial information will fall into the hands of a foreign government.”...
...Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University....
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...The CD&R offer price could climb higher still if a rival bid is made, the companies said. Shares in UDG rose 1 per cent to £10.57 in morning trade....
...M&G is a top 10 shareholder in the company. UDG, which is headquartered in Dublin, provides clinical, commercial, communication and packaging services for the healthcare industry....
...UDG’s valuation is boosted by its packaging manufacturing division Sharp, which represents a third of revenues and higher margins than Ashfield....
...The two have a long record in joint R&D with Intel. Showa Denko Materials makes materials for chip packaging processes....
...The wild ride of the r/wallstreetbets discussion forum has become an investing rollercoaster and its vendetta against hedge funds has meant volatility for markets on both sides of the Atlantic....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...Mattel said it expected rising labour costs at manufacturing plants and upward pressure on resin, zinc and packaging costs to squeeze profit margins....
...He helped retail chief Angela Ahrendts overhaul its stores, from fixtures such as its tree-lined “Genius Groves”, down to simplifying product packaging....
...Last month’s cancellation of Apple’s AirPower wireless charging mat was a painful moment for a company that prides itself on creating technology that “just works”....
...The company said sales were impacted by the Toys R Us liquidation, which hurt its baby business, as well as retailers cutting back inventory for its writing products....
...Meanwhile, R&D spending lags behind that of Asia and the US....
...its Babies R Us chain....
...The company also invests in research. Its innovations include a natural rubber (as opposed to neoprene) wetsuit, Yulex. “We did a load of R&D and then gifted it to the industry,” Ms Marcario says....
...Others end, to borrow a song from Ms Whitman’s favourite musical genre, in “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Has Meg Whitman finished her work at HPE?...
...Companies are copying our packaging, design, colour, image.” There is even an imitator that goes by the name Vnker, he says....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...PepsiCo’s R&D budget in 2015 was $754m....
...There’s certainly a lot of brilliant software and data-packaging engineering involved in maintaining the Great Firewall....
...It isn’t fun.” ————————- Read more Meet the seven robots you need to know Robot writer v human journalist: see the face-off at the FT How has the robot economy triggered a global investment explosion...
...Under Graham Chipchase, who took over the company in 2010, Rexam has refocused as a pure drinks can maker after offloading the plastics packaging business he once ran....
...Patrick and Tamar haven’t seen a great deal of each other in the past 25 years; one hopes that the playlist that accompanies their future trek is more Africa than D.I.V.O.R.C.E....
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