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...The most recent involved Japanese government efforts to shield Toshiba management from the Western-style activism it theoretically welcomes....
...Thyssenkrupp, whose businesses span steel and submarines, said earlier this year that it was considering a partial flotation of its elevators business after an attempt to merge its steel division with Tata...
...A sale of the division, which makes stairlifts and platform lifts that are installed in wheelchair users’ homes, would reduce the groups’ exposure to the elevator deal....
...Thyssenkrupp has previously said it will invest €1.25bn to keep a minority stake in the elevator business once it is sold off....
...The sheer scale of Thyssenkrupp, encompassing more than 800 companies at its peak, allowed it to shield any substandard units from the unforgiving glare of the markets....
...The $16bn race to buy Thyssenkrupp’s elevator unit may reach its conclusion while the conference is under way....
...Following weeks of a fiercely-contested bidding process, Thyssenkrupp finally selected the winning bid for its prized elevator unit....
...Beyond the Square Mile Thyssenkrupp has clinched what is expected to be one of the largest ever buyout deals in Europe by agreeing to sell its elevator division to private equity groups Advent and Cinven...
...But it would be ironic if this elevators deal someday comes crashing down. Read more on the sale here, and its back-story here....
...White v Panic should be overturned, so it cannot be used to shield boards that enable sexual predators. This is not just the right thing to do. It makes financial sense....
...“Using mixed reality, somebody that could be kilometres away could enter into the real space of our technician,” said Javier Sesma, general manager of Thyssenkrupp’s Elevator Innovation Centre....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Both Mr Hiesinger and Mr Lehner were in favour of keeping Thyssenkrupp’s disparate activities in submarines, elevators and industrial solutions under one roof, whereas many investors have been calling for...
...The 50:50 joint venture would cap an eight-year restructuring of ThyssenKrupp, a 200-year old conglomerate spanning elevators to submarines....
...The German conglomerate spans submarines to elevators but has long faced calls to quit steelmaking and concentrate on its more lucrative capital goods businesses....
...The group behind Otis elevators, Pratt & Whitney aero engines and Carrier air conditioners comes as General Electric, DowDuPont and ThyssenKrupp also work to break up into more specialised units....
...The departure from Brazil follows the 2013 sale of ThyssenKrupp’s US steel mill to ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp for $1.55bn....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...elevators and supplying components to industrials....
...An esprit de corps led to intense periods of seven-days-a-week work while Google’s car parks lay empty on the weekends....
...Steel and technology group ThyssenKrupp this month presented an elevator that operates without a counterweight, saving valuable space in buildings....
...Jane Wild EARNINGS EasyJet H1 -1.64p (-10.40p) ThyssenKrupp Q2 €0.28 (€0.45) RWE’s earnings from conventional power generation — gas, coal and nuclear — dropped by nearly a third to €979m last year....
..., the steel and elevator group, is targeting a return to the black when it unveils full-year results....
...(Financial Times) ThyssenKrupp returned to net profit for the first time in almost two years and lifted its full-year guidance as cost-cutting measures, divestments and demand for elevators and automotive...
...“Turning around,” the robot intones politely, “calling elevator.” Reaching a medical wing, the robot putters to a stop....
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