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...Some financial groups, such as Mastercard, have responded to growing wariness of the porn industry with more stringent rules for “specialty merchants” due to take effect on October 1, the same date OnlyFans...
...Nuance is supposed to help Microsoft in its healthcare cloud offering — a specialty it has made a priority. Nuance is hardly a high flyer these days....
...His inclination towards primary, not specialty, care is out of favour....
...Grayer was most recently a senior executive at managing general underwriter Concord Specialty Risk....
...Bets on stocks such as Sanford Corp and Specialty Equipment paid off handsomely, helping Ariel make killer returns for its clients and proving that Rogers could manage money just like his idol Buffett....
...Indorama Ventures is part of Singapore-based Indorama Corp....
...This is driven by General Tool rental -18% (due to volumes, not rates), and Specialty Rental +9% y/y (benefiting from providing emergency response services)....
...Agriculture chemicals group UPL agreed to purchase a unit of Platform Specialty Products for $4.2bn on Friday, in a deal that will bolster the company’s offerings of pesticides for farmers....
...Last month Carlyle, the Washington-based private equity group, won a fiercely competitive auction to take over Akzo Nobel’s €10.1bn specialty chemicals unit after the business became a takeover target....
...“Taiwanese semiconductor makers put more focus on specialty memory products and niche markets, in which sectors there is few comparable rival company or capacity in the US,” Jian-Hong Lin, research manager...
...But there are risks attached with spending more on movies so Film4 tries to work with partners: it co-financed Three Billboards with Fox Searchlight, the specialty film division of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st...
...“As the market for leading-edge chip technology is shrinking with fewer customers, for the next two years, we see greater potential in directing our efforts towards specialty technology segments rather than...
...Loan portfolios are best grown slowly, says Mr Senturia, who is now advising a handful of fintechs and specialty finance companies....
...Strong demand for its high-margin specialty pharmacy services helped offset a 2.8 per cent decline in same-store sales of general merchandise like toothbrush and beauty products at the front end of its stores...
...Swiss chemicals group Clariant and US rival Huntsman Corp have abandoned a planned $20bn merger after opposition by an activist investor group that included Keith Meister’s Corvex hedge fund....
...Clariant is a specialty chemicals group that was in dire shape when Hariolf Kottmann took over as chief executive late in 2008....
...White Tale, which is Clariant’s largest shareholder, claimed the Huntsman deal would mark a shift in strategy from becoming a pure-play specialty chemicals company to an “unfocused and commodity-oriented...
...Akzo Nobel’s specialty chemicals unit is also for sale, with a price expected at about €9bn....
...Muscle Milk — a ready-to-drink protein-packed beverage — turned in a wimpy showing as well, contributing to a 14 per cent decline in specialty-foods segment profits for the quarter....
...This is a much tougher challenge – we are not aware of any major fertiliser producer that has such a market share for any of its products at the wholesale level, but Potash Corp, the world’s largest potash...
...Swiss specialty chemical maker Clariant confirmed it was pursuing a multi-billion dollar cross-border merger with US rival Huntsman Corporation....
...investor group that includes Keith Meister’s Corvex hedge fund has increased its stake in Swiss chemicals group Clariant to 15.1 per cent and repeated demands that it drop a planned $20bn tie-up with Huntsman Corp...
...The deal had “no strategic rationale and is in fact a complete reversal of the company’s longstanding strategy of becoming a pure play specialty chemicals company”....
...The manufacturing unit that includes industrials group Precision Castparts and specialty chemicals group Lubrizol reported a 4 per cent rise in revenues....
...It is intended to be split within 18 months into three companies: one in plastics and related materials, one in agricultural chemicals and seeds, and one in other specialty chemicals....
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