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...In another example, Shenzhen-based Appotronics, which provides laser projectors for nearly half of China’s cinemas, will supply BMW with laser technology for some of the German group’s latest in-car displays...
...Apollo is often quick to point to its laser focus on not overpaying for assets. So it is not unfair to conclude the firm thinks it is getting a good deal....
...Shares in Nykaa, a cosmetics and beauty products ecommerce group, almost doubled from its issue price after its November debut....
...Rohit Sipahimalani, co-head of Temasek’s investment group, says the stepped-up pace and size of its investments is likely to be repeated in the current financial year....
...Foxconn, which is listed on the Taiwan stock market under the name Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, would pay T$20 a share for 582.9 million shares in Asia Pacific via a private placement, both companies...
...and all its Asian retail chains, including Watsons health and beauty shops, ParknShop supermarkets and Fortress consumer electronics stores....
...Shanghai Jahwa’s predecessor was Hong Kong Kwong Sang, a company that made its name with Shanghai Vive toilet water, a so-called secret weapon of pre-Revolutionary Shanghai ladies....
...Dairy, the biggest producer of dairy products. http://on.ft.com/11lnEuN China’s love of gold: not going anywhere Pure 24 carat gold has a special place in the hearts and minds of the Chinese, who love its beauty...
...” … Online marketplace/Ecommerce The first product sold on eBay, the auction website, was a broken laser pointer, writes Barney Jopson....
...“We were promised an explosion in the men’s market for years but it never really materialised,” says Vivienne Rudd, head of beauty and personal care research for Mintel....
...The Numi, which drew crowds at a Shanghai trade exhibition, has been viewed on YouTube by close to 400,000 people. It also stars in video adverts shown in 10,000 Shanghai taxis....
...AgBank’s $19.2 dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai last year was among the world’s largest ever offerings....
...Backing these operations are 200 people based in Gothenburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Chicago who handle global logistics....
...catching up, and how clever they are in combining western technology with their own and producing it at low cost levels,” says Peter Leibinger, deputy head and part-owner of Trumpf, the world’s largest laser-cutting...
...Despite that, Agricultural Bank still stands to raise $22.1bn in a record-breaking dual-listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, having closed the deal last night....
...That gives them a laser-like focus on return on their investment. But often they may not have the deep pockets to invest in the brands they acquire....
...The self-governing Chinese territory is a big player in the capital markets, hosting a succession of blockbuster initial public offerings of Chinese companies and preparing this summer to co-host (with Shanghai...
...Large state enterprises with easy access to credit have this year swallowed up private competitors in sectors from airlines to beauty products....
...A line of Barbie beauty products is planned, along with the launch of House of Barbie, an adult/child concept store (the first will debut in Shanghai) offering spa treatments and six floors of clothes....
...Trumpf of Germany, one of the world’s two biggest makers of machine tools, is for instance setting up in China not one but three plants to make some of its top-of-the-range laser-cutting equipment....
...For all the bling of the new DBS – complete with flashing “power”, “beauty” and “soul” lights on the dashboard – Aston Martin is still a quintessentially British sports car, just with a modern twist....
...The increases would have been greater if MBO had not adjusted for the so-called “Shanghai bubble” on stock markets last year, which would have given an inflated overall view of the banks’ brand value....
...In 2005 Boots pulled out of its lossmaking laser eye correction, dentistry, chiropody and laser hair removal businesses. In 2003 it closed centres that offered alternative therapies....
...The Shanghai-based insurer will on Tuesday hold a “beauty parade” of investment banks, including UBS, JPMorgan and Credit Suisse....
...Will blind American bar-owner Ralph Fiennes drift for ever around Shanghai, glumly fancying ex-Russian countess Natasha Richardson – a beautiful woman reduced to taxi-dancing, though she clearly sells her...
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