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...Kenneth R Feinberg, the US court-appointed mediator for the settlement talks, said the agreements were “designed as a constructive and reasonable resolution to a unique litigation”....
...There has been enough money to spare to start reversing the climb in corporate debt back to pre-crisis levels of $9tn, and plenty left over to boost capex and R&D spending, too....
...Bayer originally said that the combined Bayer-Monsanto would have an annual agricultural R&D budget of €2.5bn....
...He said Mr Trump had convinced the two companies to make the commitment on R&D....
...“What is important is that our pharma . . . has access to operating expenses, sufficient R&D, sufficient marketing and development to drive the business,” he said....
...However, increased R&D spending highlighted the challenge facing Mr Baumann to come up with new drugs to sustain growth in years ahead....
...Bayer says its combined crop science R&D budget post-merger would be $2.5bn a year — $900m more than its nearest competitor, Dow-Dupont, and enough to achieve critical mass “in all relevant R&D platforms...
...However, the $300m stake, while large for Gett, is just a fraction of the €11.9bn that VW put into R&D last year....
...The company recently slipped back into third place behind Motorola in mobile handset sales, after Motorola's iconic RAZ R V3 mobile handset helped give new oomph to the US company's brand....
...During my time as CEO I had two supervisory board chairmen [Karl-Hermann Baumann and Hermann Franz]. They were both people I felt I could talk to. I found both these people extremely helpful....
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