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...Back then it was not a given prospect: Tesla was in the midst of “production hell”, building cars in a tent in its car park, while making some models without seats or computer modules because of supply chain...
...TikTok is building three data centres this year with the option of adding two more by 2025 in Hamar, 25km to the east of Raufoss, Norwegian data centre provider Green Mountain said this month....
...Richard McPhail, Home Depot’s chief financial officer, said investments in building out the company’s supply chain would continue to pressure gross margins this year....
...Richard Thalheimer remembers the last time inflation was proving so challenging to US retailers: it was when he was trying to get The Sharper Image off the ground in the late 1970s and 1980s....
...Richard Griffiths, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, said: “I don’t know whether there’s a duration attached to this agreement, but anything that guarantees the supply is good news....
...Toyota became the latest on Tuesday, announcing a $35bn investment into building EVs....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...Its rivals look to be in a better position in terms of guaranteeing future supplies....
...Every other part we are building,” he said....
...In an apparent attempt to placate authorities in China, Musk enthused on Twitter on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist party about the advances the country had made in building infrastructure...
...Rising prices and limited supply are also making watches more attractive as an alternative investment....
...A supply chain that is unparalleled to any. And of all the different attacks on Big Tech, Apple has weathered it the best.”...
...Yet the building, with its dim hallways and expansive, marble-floored rooms inside, occupies an enviable location....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 29 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Tesla is also pursuing a more practical idea of paying in advance to secure supplies. That’s a strategy already adopted by other companies....
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...“I wouldn’t say that we’re behind schedule,” says Richard Hatchett, chief executive of Cepi. “We’re just on the cusp of beginning to deliver doses.”...
...It is also still sitting on about 55 per cent of the total supply, worth around $16bn at current prices — far overshadowing its underlying technology business....
...“Reshoring agricultural production will help to insulate Europe’s food crops from global market fluctuations, supply-chain disruption and some of the effects of climate change,” wrote Richard Fuchs, Calum...
...Mr Krafcik has hinted in the past that a similar approach might work in Italy with Fiat Chrysler, which already supplies minivans to Waymo to be fitted out as fully autonomous vehicles....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...The Big Story China’s competitive firepower against Tesla is building....
...Richard Waters, West Coast bureau chief, sees slowing progress in AI, renewed interest in blockchain and another year of attacks on Facebook....
...And now a fifth expect a “V-shaped” economic recovery, up from a 10th in the previous month....
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