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...Scenes involving a sky-blocking swarm of locusts (less migratory than Exodus-y) and a crab that devours its young more greedily than Goya’s Saturn, meanwhile, are the stuff of genuine horror....
...(FT) Illustration of the day Banx: Jupiter and Saturn in rare “Great Conjunction” *The headline has been changed to make clear that hackers gained access to unclassified government documents not classified...
...A similar design could one day be used to explore Saturn's moon Titan. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is trying out a 3D-printed prototype of Shapeshifter....
...The Düsseldorf-based retailer, which operates Media Markt and Saturn-branded electronics stores in Germany as well as shops in 13 other European countries, now expects earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation...
...With regard to the group’s listing plans, Mr Chai said it was too soon to provide any further details, cautioning that trying to time the market was “like landing on the rings of Saturn....
...This summer, Saturn and RuTaxi — which aggregate calls to hundreds of individual taxi companies across the country — merged to form Vezyot, which is now Russia’s largest taxi firm....
...Erich Kellerhals, who founded Media Saturn and has had a number of clashes with Metro’s management in recent years, is now considering challenging the split....
...The consumer electronics business, which will be based around the Media Saturn chain of stores founded by Erich Kellerhals, will maintain a 10 per cent stake in the food business to strengthen its capital...
...However, it added that the consumer electronics business, which will be based around the Media Saturn chain of stores founded by Erich Kellerhals, would maintain a 10 per cent stake in the food business,...
...However, Metro’s consumer electronics arm, Media Saturn, posted a €77m loss, €17m less than the €60m it posted in the same period last year....
...We do not consider that our rights as holders of Media Saturn shareholders will be affected....
...Under the latest plan, he would head the spin-off of Metro’s cash-and-carry business with its Real Hypermarket chain, while the electronics Media-Saturn chain would be run separately....
...Anthony Appleton, director of accounting and reporting policy at the Financial Reporting Council, which oversees corporate governance in the UK, defended the new measures....
...The Media-Saturn electricals unit is in much better shape, but for historic reasons cannot use the tax losses....
...Simon Appleton, a director at Kinetic Partners, a financial services consultancy, said: “Financial services professionals are right to expect regulators to continue to clamp down hard on market abuse such...
...Take Media-Saturn, Metro’s consumer electronics subsidiary, which accounts for a third of the group’s annual €63bn sales....
...And Germany’s Metro closed its Media Saturn electronics stores in the country. For too long all China investment has been seen as good investment....
...The event on July 19 marked the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back towards Earth to take a picture as part of a larger mosaic of the Saturn system....
...Metro’s Media-Saturn electronics chain contributes a third of sales but is making losses to hold its market share....
...Like-for-like German sales rose 3.4 per cent at Media-Saturn and 1.5 per cent at Real....
...Metro is to increase its majority stake in Media-Saturn by buying almost 3 per cent from a founder of the electronics retailer, for about €230m....
...Fourth-quarter operating earnings before special items fell about 12 per cent at Real and at Media-Saturn, and by 15 per cent at the cash-and-carry business....
...The Kaufhof department stores have been non-core for a while but have not yet been sold, while a spat with a minority shareholder in the Media-Saturn electronics chain restricts the chances of a sale there...
...Last month, Metro promoted Pieter Haas, an executive at its Media-Saturn electronics subsidiary, to represent that unit on the group board....
...Sales growth over the year was strongest at the Media Markt and Saturn electronics stores, where Metro said 4 per cent of sales were now online following the group’s relatively late expansion into internet...
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