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...Bluebell conducted its campaign after buying just a single Solvay share....
...Belgian chemicals group Solvay plans to create the second European site producing rare earths vital for the energy transition, as the continent rushes to break China’s dominance over the hard to extract...
...Even a 10 times multiple for Solvay’s new speciality business would value it at about €13bn or more than the current group total....
...Bluebell, which has been part of successful campaigns at foodmaker Danone and chemicals group Solvay, had accused Rupert of behaving like a “padre-padrone” or godfather-like figure, who makes most decisions...
...Barely two years after that business was acquired by Bain Capital, she was poached by Solvay....
...Belgian chemicals company Solvay, which formally adopted mobile working last year, has expanded its recruitment too....
...Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, a chemicals multinational, based in Belgium When I became chief executive of Solvay in March 2019, I made it a point to prioritise reaching out to key investors during my first...
...But this apparent paradise is a mere illusion; the area is just an open landfill of Solvay’s industrial chemical waste,” Bluebell said in a letter to Solvay....
...It marked the latest example of how Taricco and co-founder Giuseppe Bivona have taken on big companies such as Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena, asset manager GAM, and Belgian chemicals company Solvay...
...Mr Brudermüller must also bed down key acquisitions, such as of the Solvay polyamide plastics business — important to BASF’s nylon unit — as well as some Bayer agricultural units....
...Also on board were the US heads of the European groups BASF, Novo Nordisk, Shell, Solvay Chemicals and Zurich Insurance, as well as leaders from Mahindra of India, Samsung of South Korea, Japan’s Panasonic...
...Solvay catapulted into the top three players last year when it paid $6.4bn to acquire Cytec, a US-based provider of these materials to the aerospace sector....
...Solvay’s main shareholder — the Solvay family, which founded the group 152 years ago — has said it will back the deal and exercise its right to maintain its 30 per cent stake....
...for industrial companies is to increase the number of women in the talent pipeline, in the management of operations and in executive roles,” said Jean Pierre Clamadieu, chairman and chief executive of Solvay...
...presence,” said Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Solvay’s chief executive....
...The joint venture gives Solvay a way out of the PVC market, which has suffered from waning demand from the building industry since the downturn....
...Accsys is also finalising a similar contract signed last year with Solvay, the Franco-Belgian chemicals company, to manufacture Accoya, Accsys’s main brand of “acetylated” or toughened timber....
...So Solvay’s pivot towards speciality chemicals is right....
...However, both Solvay and Ineos did not define the amount of synergies they expected. See Lex...
...It comes ahead of a US Supreme Court decision on the case brought by the Federal Trade Commission against Solvay for payments to generic producers to delay rivals of its AndroGel product, with initial indications...
...In the US, the debate has advanced to the Supreme Court, where the judges are currently scrutinising a case brought by the FTC against Solvay, part of AbbVie and producer of the testosterone product AndroGel...
...Earnings failed to impress investors, with shares in Belgian chemicals group Solvay falling 2.5 per cent to €108.65, even after beating annual profit expectations....
...Schindler has provided engineers while Solvay has supplied polymers and parts for the aircraft and its batteries and photovoltaic panels....
...He was formerly chief executive of France’s Rhodia, bought by Solvay for €3.4bn last year....
...Alexa Joyce is an MBA graduate of Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, which she attended in 2000....
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