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...Continental’s deal to buy the Wyoming oil assets comes as Hamm, who owns more than 80 per cent of the company, strengthened his focus on US oil after another acquisition last year in Wyoming and a more recent...
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...Then in 1977 came two Supreme Court decisions, first Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat and then Continental TV v. GTE Sylvania....
...Simon Kirby, chief operating officer at Rolls-Royce, is stepping down just 19 months after taking the post, becoming the first high-profile casualty of the FTSE engineer’s latest restructuring....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...This is a profound shift for a company whose previous thesis was that physical store costs would increase over time, while technology costs declined....
...Inside story on Google’s Euro VC efforts Murad Ahmed has been delving into why Google Venture’s European VC fund has disappeared and finds there were frustrations for the continental team over stalled deals...
...At 27 he started out in insurance, offering accident and health cover to railroad employees at the Continental Casualty Company of Chicago....
...However, TPG had to overcome tough questions about the performance of TPG V, its boom-era buyout fund, which invested $15.5bn but suffered some high-profile casualties....
...But western oil companies are also among the losers....
...On Monday, shares in Goodrich Petroleum, a small oil and gas producer, fell 30 per cent, making it the day’s most spectacular casualty, but much larger companies were hit too....
...The main casualty of the deal was Qantas’ 17-year-old partnership with British Airways although the Australian carrier, which is still a Oneworld member, continues to fly to London’s Heathrow airport....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...“Supervalu could become the next casualty in the troubled supermarket space as its fundamentals have finally begun to show real signs of distress after years of steady underperformance,” said Edward Kelly...
...continental Europe and the UK....
...His task is to rebuild confidence in a company that became one of the highest-profile casualties of shareholder anger about executive remuneration....
...Dairy Crest said a failure to make further acquisitions in continental Europe to drive synergies sparked the review....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Lionel Assant, senior executive at the US private equity group, said: “Our aspiration is that in five years we will have formed a company with £500m in sales and a strong UK and continental European footprint...
...The cleanest escape is through a sale, but many insurers, particularly in continental Europe, remain concerned about the reputational risks of handing long-term customers to another company that may be aggressive...
...… Power Player: Lorraine Baldry, LCR chairman Property veteran Lorraine Baldry is taking over as chairman of London & Continental Railways as the government-owned group looks to focus on property development...
...Jeff Smisek, chairman and chief executive of Continental, noted that the company was seeing a slight improvement in the business traffic segment but warned that returning the company to full-year profitability...
...But that damage has been done – the Citi v Fabulis saga has been picked up by a slew of high-profile technology blogs, including GigaOm, Mark Maunder and TechCrunch....
...Rather, JAL has become an embarrassing casualty of the aviation recession sparked by the 2007-2008 financial crisis, which has so far claimed only much smaller carriers....
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