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...By the end of September, his personal debt to the tech group topped $5bn....
...This century saw the hotel undergo a full renovation, re-emerging in 2011 as part of the Rosewood group....
...“It has become a bigger company and this could create the perception that it needs more insurance,” said Kevin Lacroix, an attorney and executive vice-president at RT ProExec, a unit of RT Specialty, an...
...The lighting conditions at the South Pole are very peculiar, so you have really low incident angle light....
...Famous faces from Silicon Valley to Wall Street to Washington seem to be churning out Spacs at lighting speed....
...But a multi-month shootout to acquire German lighting and sensor group Osram moved closer to completion this week as Austria’s AMS raised $1.8bn in a rights issue to help pay for the deal....
...And in October, Austrian chipmaker AMS’s €4bn bid for lighting group Osram did not convince enough investors. The lone deal that was accepted: KKR’s €6.8bn bid for publisher Axel Springer....
...Token, see Tollgard Design Group. Tollgard Design Group, tollgard.com. Workstead, workstead.com. Yabu Pushelberg, yabupushelberg.com and see Henge...
...Just this week, German lighting group Osram, with a market value of €4bn, said it was in talks to be acquired by Carlyle and Bain Capital....
...US media and telecoms groups have hurtled towards consolidation in recent years to defend their business against one common enemy: Netflix....
...Aspen, the Bermuda-based insurer, is to be bought by private equity group Apollo in a $2.6bn deal, the latest in a string of transactions in which specialist insurers have been bought out The consolidation...
...Charles Shaver will become the chief executive of Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals once Carlyle and GIC complete the deal to buy the unit, Carlyle said in a press release....
...Today it is no longer even the US’s most valuable industrial group (it was overtaken last year by Boeing, a Dow survivor)....
...He was an entrepreneur who ran a theatre lighting company....
...AkzoNobel has also put its specialty chemicals unit up for sale, and Sanofi is selling a drug unit. Both auctions have attracted interest from private equity....
...Hagen, retired President and CEO of Polymer Group, Inc. (later renamed AVINTIV Specialty Materials Inc).Julie A. Hill, owner of The Hill Company....
...Akzo Nobel’s specialty chemicals unit is also for sale, with a price expected at about €9bn....
...Under its alternative proposal, the specialty products company would have four separate business divisions — electronic specialities; nutrition and biosciences; specialty materials; and silicones — each...
...Mr Liveris’s departure will come as the merged group is broken up....
...Westinghouse’s alternating-current method, which could send power across far distances and which Edison said would “kill a customer within six months”, eventually won out to become the industry standard, lighting...
...Lumileds had been run as a standalone company since 2015 as part of a wider restructuring that has seen Philips shed its lighting businesses, which culminated in the IPO of Philips Lighting earlier this...
...He likens his vision for Vevo to that of a specialty record store, in contrast to YouTube that is a “one size fits all supermarket”....
...Tech Pro’s assets include an LED lighting business, a Shanghai real estate group and the French second division football club Sochaux Montbeliard....
...Industrial company OM Group thinks so, too. In June, OM agreed to sell itself to Apollo and its partner Platform Specialty Products for $34 per share (about $1bn in total)....
...Since the Fed last raised rates in 2006, the banking landscape in the US has changed radically, with specialty finance outfits such as Ally Financial, American Express and Discover Financial Services converting...
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