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...But Andersen had spied something in Skou, calling him a “visionary guy”. The former executive says: “That was the last thing you would think of for Soren Skou....
...Denmark went on to beat Germany in the final, an event that Friis called “a Hans Christian Andersen adventure” for the nation of 5.8m people....
...Thomas Thune Andersen, chairman, said at the time that the divestment meant the name Dong was “no longer suitable for the company”....
...He will replace Nils Andersen from Friday next week....
...In his first interview since starting the job last Friday, Soren Skou told the Financial Times that the group was buffeted by short-term “headwinds” in all of its businesses — from the world’s largest container...
...Equally clearly the reason is lower prices in every market we are in — freight rates, oil prices, terminals, tankers,” Soren Skou, Maersk’s chief executive, told the Financial Times....
...He will be replaced by Søren Skou, currently CEO of Maersk Line, the group’s container shipping business....
...Soren Skou, chief executive since the end of June, is the man charged with delivering a strategic review by the end of next month....
...Soren Skou....
...Both have been facing what Nils Andersen, who will step down as chief executive on Thursday, has called “a perfect storm”....
...We expect to order more vessels, which we can add to our fleet from 2017 and onwards,” said Søren Toft, Maersk Line’s chief operating officer....
...Last November, Nils Andersen, chief executive of AP Møller-Maersk, signalled he would switch investment to its other divisions: oil, drilling rigs and ports....
...Søren Skou, who took over in mid-January, was speaking in London on Monday a week after AP Møller-Maersk, Maersk Line’s parent, announced a $537m net loss for 2011 for its container activities division,...
...But in 1992, Jan Tøpholm, chief executive of Widex, Søren Westermann, executive vice-president, and Svend Vitting Andersen, invented a way to computerise the process, forever making the devices cheaper and...
...The benefits of trade are still there and we don’t expect European and US consumers to stop consuming,” says Soren Andersen, vice-president of ships for Maersk....
...The deal is the third significant shipping transaction Nils Andersen, Maersk’s chief executive, has undertaken since taking over in 2007....
...Trond Westlie, a Norwegian, will take over as chief financial officer on January 1, following Soren Thorup Sorensen’s resignation in May....
...Nils Andersen, the outgoing chief executive, had spoken publicly about the merits of merging Carlsberg with Scottish & Newcastle....
...Soren Kruse, Copenhagen Martin Wolf: This is a nice point. We have do decide what is constitutional and what is not....
...His fame came not, as he hoped, from being a serious writer (like his contemporary, the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, regarded as the forerunner of existentialism), but as the children’s author of such...
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