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...The companies said they co-ordinated closely with governments of both the US and United Arab Emirates, which has vaulting AI ambitions, spearheaded by powerful Emirati royal Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan...
...Dutch health technology company Royal Philips plans to cut about 4,000 jobs, as its new head begins an overhaul of the business that has been hit by legal action surrounding millions of faulty medical devices...
...Passing on the increased input costs poses a challenge for petrochemical producers such as divisions of Royal Dutch Shell and TotalEnergies, Germany’s BASF and Covestro and Saudi Arabia’s Sabic when demand...
...Tensions are increasing between Royal Mail and its workers over plans for its lossmaking UK postal business....
...It is home to a company called Schiebel, founded in 1951 and, then, an equally unremarkable manufacturer of small electronic components for household appliances....
...My energy company has already raised the monthly direct debit at my seaside abode, projecting my annual gas bill will rise from £2,944 to £3,676 next year....
...The head of Royal Philips has played down the litigation risk over the discovery of a defective component in some of the medical technology company’s sleep and respiratory devices....
...US earnings: Newell Brands, the company behind Sharpie marker pens and Sunbeam appliances, reports before the bell, as does Colgate-Palmolive....
...“The emphasis has shifted from chemicals to gadgets and appliances,” he adds....
...wrapping up the sale of its domestic appliance business to private equity’s Hillhouse Capital....
...The company has 523 employees on the project, of which 498 are based at a research and development centre on the site of a former Royal Air Force base in Hullavington, Wiltshire....
...BHP, which is listed in London and Sydney, recently overtook Royal Dutch Shell and Unilever as the biggest company in the UK with a market capitalisation of $170bn....
...Briefly First-quarter earnings from Royal Dutch Shell beat consensus expectations as higher oil prices and chemicals margins offset a weaker performance in the refining and marketing business....
...Energy companies like Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron have bet tens of billions of dollars on LNG investments....
...This required engagement with trade unions, politicians, company pensioners and even the monarchy. (Philips’ official name includes the honorific title “Royal”.)...
...In the US, more than $200bn has been promised by companies including Dow, Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil for huge facilities fed with cheap raw materials from shale extraction....
...Healthcare technology company Royal Philips has predicted that the number of adult intensive care beds will have to at least double globally in order to deal with the coronavirus crisis....
...Although Philips has already announced it will spin off its consumer appliances business, the group still relies on some retail gadgets such as toothbrushes....
...What might domestic appliances be worth?...
...Royal Philips plans to sell its domestic appliances arm or spin it off into a separately listed company as the Dutch conglomerate focuses on the healthcare sector....
...The appliances maker told staff it had received a UK government order for 10,000 of the devices and aims to begin delivering them “in weeks”, contingent on regulatory approval it expects to obtain on Friday...
...Once Europe’s largest consumer electronics business, over the past decade Philips has shrunk itself into a more focused company, spanning personal care appliances, hospital scanners and patient monitoring...
...This is combined with the cool of a designer trained at London’s prestigious Royal College of Art. Yet occasionally he can bristle at questions or subjects to his disliking....
...The legendary former head of design at German electronics manufacturer Braun, Mr Rams’ simple and elegant line of appliances, clocks and record players embodied his maxim of “less, but better”....
...They are: Royal Dutch Shell, BHP, Legal & General, Bellway, Mediclinic Int, Hays, Redrow, Morgan Sindall, S&U, Kenmare Resources....
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