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...In 2022 Europe manufactured 14 per cent of global plastics, falling from a 20 per cent share in 2012, according to trade group Plastics Europe....
...The firm now has 14 equity partners in total, the people said. European private equity firm Cinven has appointed Bruno Schick, Jorge Quemada and Supraj Rajagopalan as co-managing partners....
...The deal is Pfizer’s largest since its 2016 purchase of Medivation for $14.3bn....
...The Screen Actors Guild followed suit on July 14, closing down any remaining filming on American films and TV around the world....
...Europe has exploited Africa’s resources for centuries, often paying royalties to export commodities while doing little to foster the development of local economies....
...While it made €9.7bn in revenue in 2021, it also paid out $7bn in royalties. It ended last year with a net loss of €34mn....
...Chesapeake said the deal would generate enough new cash flow to pay for a 14 per cent increase in the annual dividend starting in the second quarter....
...In between, the price of crude oil hit 14-year highs and global geopolitics swirled as US and EU leaders announced new efforts to weaken Russia’s energy-funded power as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine...
...As Stephen Bates, author of Royalty Inc, puts it: “The monarchy is one thing the Americans don’t have.”...
...But the shale boom has made the industry a key contributor to the public purse in states such as North Dakota and New Mexico....
...In the last week, Rusal unveiled “ultra-low” carbon Budweiser cans, Royal Dutch Shell sold a big chunk of its US shale holdings and Nespresso promised to make its coffee carbon neutral....
...Hipgnosis, the music royalties fund, has launched a share placing aimed at raising £150m for buying more songbooks....
...The auction — which was mandated under a 2017 law — raised a total of $14.4m....
...In more recent times, the company has been hit by its exposure to the North American shale sector, with demand for oil falling sharply since the start of the year....
...Together they bushwhacked through marshes, ravines and forest for 14 days in 2018....
...Overall revenues were up 3 per cent at $14.4bn for the quarter, with consolidated operating profit up 2 per cent at $2.213bn....
...Marron, whose roles included chief executive of PaineWebber Inc, founded the bank’s corporate art collection (which became the UBS Art Collection)....
...In 2017, Amazon reported that in the US more than 1,000 authors who self-published on the Kindle platform made upwards of $100,000 in royalties....
...Embattled Chinese insurer Dajia, the current owner of the art deco building that has housed royalty, entertainers and politicians, hopes that cachet will translate into sales....
...entrepreneur Whether you prefer to style her the youngest self-made billionaire on earth or Gen Z’s first billionaire, the 22-year-old founder of Kylie Cosmetics sold a majority stake in her firm to Coty Inc...
...John Cecil (possibly second left) of Kallo Inc, an American healthtech thing that has had some dealings in Ghana....
...Other regionally listed stocks, such as the UK, are mere “master franchisees”, paying royalties to the US parent in order to charge royalties to a sub-set of local franchisees....
...The new terms may include Apple paying a higher royalty per device, the analysts added, calling the impact “difficult to estimate.”...
...turns on Dutch authorities accepting an “unduly reduced” estimate of the taxable income, has echoes of the investigation it launched against Apple and Ireland, which resulted in the US tech group paying €14.3bn...
...(Mia Farrow had 14 children, 10 of whom were adopted.) “I was very conscious of how fortunate I was and that I had been dealt a hand that not everyone in my family had....
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