Hints and tips:
...BofA’s Jadrosich pointed to risks such as a recent increase in the price of insulation from supplier Owens Corning, which cited strong demand....
...It includes a 15-year fuel supply agreement under which Marathon will supply Speedway with about 7.7bn gallons a year....
...Its supply chain relies heavily on diesel vans for door-to-door deliveries....
...To get cheaper borrowing rates, Bunge must reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase supply chain transparency and do more to prompt sustainable soyabean supply, among other things....
...Typically, the answer involves either looking to take costs out of the supply chain or recasting customer relationships through online channels, says Mr Willmott....
...Rail movements have been particularly useful for oil producers, because supply chains can be quickly reconfigured when price changes alter the pattern of demand from refineries....
...Insulation mill Superglass dropped 65.2 per cent after launching a £12.9m, deeply discounted rescue share issue to repay debt....
...There are always cashback deals, loyalty cards, “sign up, get free loft insulation” and all the rest. But you still seem to think that prices will fall? Probably....
...“The world six, seven, eight years from now could be facing a potential catastrophe of demand exceeding supply,” he said....
...However, UBS analysts noted that Japan’s Krosaki Harima had bought Tata Refractories, Cookson’s main rival for supplying Indian steelmakers....
...Arm Holdings , which had been sold off this week on supply chain worries, led the FTSE 100 risers with a 5.9 per cent rally to 533½p....
...Integrated utilities such as Centrica are able to smooth out some of the volatility, because when energy prices fall they earn higher margins from their supply business....
...Last November China Investment Corp, the sovereign wealth fund, acted to spend $2.2bn buying 15 per cent of the shares and 35 per cent of the wind power business of AES, the US power company....
...In a PC, the same box contains the heat-generating power supply and the CPU that must be kept cool.” “But mobile devices are much more efficient....
...The “mega buy-out” firms are hampered by the crisis in debt markets, while mid-sized buy-outs are less reliant on plentiful supplies of cheap credit....
...The electric utility’s new unit upgrades customers’ insulation, air conditioners and furnaces, making them more energy efficient....
...Certainly there are bigger targets for environmental savings – household insulation, energy emissions – and the plastics industry is keen to point them out....
...Across Europe stock exchange systems were tested to the limit, leaving dealers wondering how their markets could find any insulation from Wall Street’s spiralling falls....
...Valero also suffered minor damage to its cooling towers, and insulation was knocked off several tanks....
...SIG, the distributor of insulation products, rose 4.2 per cent to 693p after record interim figures, helped by strong non-residential demand....
...Numis also cut its recommendation on plumbing supplies group Wolseley, down 1.4 per cent to £11.23, plumbing and pipe specialist BSS Group, off 0.5 per cent to £11.19, and insulation and roofing company...
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