Hints and tips:
...Abattoirs switched to slower electrical stunning and wholesalers rationed beer....
...You need access to (property) in the right place, electrical substation access and redundant connectivity to lots of (telecoms) carriers....
...Electrocomponents has operations in 32 countries and distributors in a further 37. Its shares fell 1.3 per cent to 209p in early trading....
...The group has operations in 32 countries and distributors in a further 37. More than two-thirds of group revenues are earned outside the UK....
...Of course,” said Eric Slifka, chief executive of Global Partners, a New York-listed company that is one of the north-east region’s biggest gasoline distributors....
...Harriet Green, who has spent her entire career in the electrical components industry, is to leave Premier Farnell at the end of July....
...She has led Premier Farnell, a distributor of electronic and industrial components, since 2006, having joined from Arrow Electronics, where she was president of Arrow Asia Pacific....
...But from her perch as chief executive of Premier Farnell, the electrical components distributor, Harriet Green warned that the US and Chinese economies are stuck in a “twilight zone”....
...When Kesa sold the electrical chain Comet to private equity, for example, Needham was sent a detailed breakdown of the deal as a shareholder....
...Mr Robinson said competitive deals struck with manufacturers and their distributors were responsible for protecting Richer Sounds’ profit levels....
...In fact, it helped internationalise the business: “It gave us access to50 distributors around the world.”...
...He points to US electrical goods retailer Best Buy. It pulled out of China earlier this year, after finding that Chinese consumers are less likely to value its customer service and warranties....
...Among CD&R’s portfolio businesses are Hertz, the car rental company, Rexel, the French distributor of electrical supplies, and BCA, a car auctions company....
...We are not only talking to the companies, we talk to their distributors, their suppliers. Our performance has been outstanding in the last few years.”...
...EADS, the European aircraft-making consortium, faced problems installing the 500 kms of electrical wiring in each of its Airbus 380s....
...Harriet Green, chief executive of electrical components distributor Premier Farnell, is among those made an officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to industry....
...Its portfolio includes, Rexel, the electrical supplies distributor and US Foodservice, the food distribution and deliver company....
...of Fertilizer Distributors....
...This month, Hagemeyer, the electrical equipment distributor, will vanishfrom the bourse following the team-up between Rexel and Sonepar to buy it....
...Hagemeyer, the Dutch electrical equipment distributor, has entered into exclusive talks to be acquired by Rexel after its French rival agreed to raise its all-cash offer by 5.4 per cent to €4.85 a share....
...Cinven, which raised a €6.5bn fund for European buy-outs, has made acquisitions in Sweden, including Ahlsell, the plumbing and electrical equipment distributor, and Phadia, the diagnostics maker....
...Last month, CD&R floated Rexel, the French electrical products distributor, on the Paris stock market in a listing that valued the business at about €4.2bn ($5.7bn)....
...products distributor and another CD&R portfolio company is also on the auction block....
...The cost of buying protection on Rexel, the world’s biggest distributor of electrical equipment, fell sharply on Wednesday as hopes rose that the company will announce an initial public offering....
...European credit derivative indices opened stronger again this morning, particularly the junk-rated index, which was spurred on by a big move for Rexel, the private-equity owned electrical equipment distributor...
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