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...She and company chair Barry Gibson started using private jets to travel to board meetings in Gibraltar during the pandemic....
...Michael Dunne, a former General Motors executive in China who runs the ZoZoGo consultancy, said: “To triumph, they must win trust on two fronts: Customers unfamiliar with their brands....
...Those passions would come in handy in the last two weeks as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation tapped Snyder, a Weil Gotshal lawyer-turned-banker, to sell Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank....
...Checks and balances Independent boards do little to prevent a company’s ultimate triumph or demise, corporate lawyer Stephen Givens argues in Nikkei Asia, contrasting the troubles at Toshiba and SoftBank...
...Then, in the 2010s, the company chose AI and robotics as key frontier fields. The decision led it to form a new subsidiary, Sony AI, in 2020, naming Hiroaki Kitano as its founding chief executive....
...Investors are braced for more volatility with tensions rising between the west and Russia in Ukraine, and the US Federal Reserve preparing to aggressively raise interest rates....
...Yet even as VW signed two joint ventures with state-owned companies, one with First Automobile Works (FAW) in the north-east of China and another with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), there...
...With a couple of exceptions, such as some Asian governments subsidising semiconductor companies to set up shop in their country, this hasn’t produced much action as yet....
...Of the leading corporations in the respective equity indices, foreign revenue flows make up a far larger share for European companies than they do for American ones....
...“If they go after General Motors, it would likely hurt [its Chinese partner] SAIC Motor too,” said Tu Le, founder of consultancy Sino Auto Insights....
...His successor, Yoshihide Suga, also counselled Japanese companies in a speech in October to diversify their supply chains into south-east Asia....
...earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, according to Moody’s....
...His early years at JLR were a turnround triumph as SUV sales to China soared....
...I was brutally ripped from my family, friends and the companies I ran — Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi — and held in detention while prosecutors pressured me to confess to a series of false allegations that...
...But in the long term it wants to improve the survival chances of its own hybrid technology, in which a motor and battery work in sequence....
...Here’s how it works: SPV sponsors, such as venture investors and private market brokers, create a Delaware limited liability corporation to house the shares of some hot start-up....
...Finance Corporation and consumer groups like Hindustan Lever and Maruti Suzuki....
...The list of companies that run teams reads like a Who’s Who of Japan Inc: The likes of Suntory Holdings, Toyota Motor, Canon, Panasonic, Honda Motor and Toshiba are represented in the top flight, but the...
...The German conglomerate plans to list the new company in September 2020 and give up its majority stake....
...The combination of the company’s obvious governance shortcomings, the general caution over the automotive sector as technology disrupts and the 43 per cent stake Renault holds in Nissan has strictly limited...
...Other investors included state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China National Petroleum Corporation and SAIC Motor. New York-listed OZ Management absorbed a $300m stake....
...In a 2016 study, the internal ethics council of the Norwegian government pension fund warned that “local police forces still appear to be acting in the company’s interest in silencing protests”, and that...
...The company blamed intensifying competition in the local passenger-vehicle market, as well as sluggish demand for South Korean vehicles, which led to a sales decline at Beijing Hyundai Motor, a 50-50 joint...
...There had been speculation in the market that SAIC Motor Corporation, China’s largest carmaker, had last year approached GKN with an offer for the automotive division....
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