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...Scaringe told a local radio station that the Normal area, with a diverse economy that includes agriculture, universities and the headquarters of the State Farm insurance company, was different from other...
...Some companies own both electricity retailers and power plants, balancing the risks....
...Asia’s ‘airpocalypse’ Thailand's verdant north, free of both industry and tourists, has somehow found itself at the epicentre of a global crisis....
...Changchun High & New Technology Industry SECTOR: Healthcare / HQ: changchun, china This state-owned drugmaker based in China’s industrial north-east has recorded steady profit margin growth in 2020, in...
...There, in the middle of nowhere, she ran into Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of rival outdoor-gear company The North Face and, after he had sold it, the global fashion brand Esprit....
...Subtlety and nuance about complex issues are the casualties....
...The industry has long been in the line of fire over drug pricing and its monopolistic power....
...“A lot of large agricultural companies are dominated by state-owned players and it is very hard to collaborate with them,” she says....
...companies are unplugging from the state utility....
...power to international corporations. —————- The case for trade and the TPP has largely been won in Nebraska, a proud farm state that sends beef and soybeans around the world....
...Mr Kenwright started out from his bedroom in a council house in Runcorn, and founded Evolution on a converted pig farm....
...But Mr Einhorn has identified important weaknesses in the shale oil business model, and there are likely to be further casualties, even if the industry itself manages to survive and grow....
...TPG Capital is poised to announce it has raised an initial $5bn for its latest buyout fund, securing backing from long-time investors including the pension schemes of the State of Oregon and the State of...
...As the oil and biofuels industries and commodities traders await the EPA’s decision, they are watching the price of Rins (Renewable Identification Numbers)....
...Farms versus industry For all the accusations of water hogging made against Coke or any other business, however, industry comes a very distant second to the world’s biggest water users: farmers....
...(Financial Times) Corporate America’s overseas cash pile rises to $947bn: Total cash reserves of US companies climbed to $1.64tn last year, according to the report by Moody’s Investors Service, the credit...
...Shareholders including the employee pension funds of New York city and state said this week they would file resolutions for the annual meetings of companies including Exxon, Chevron, EOG and Pioneer Natural...
...Creativity, Inc , by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace (Bantam/Random House), is a great book for anyone interested in inspiring and managing creative talent....
...(AA) predicted stronger demand in the biggest developing nations and Credit Suisse Group AG forecast growth in China’s car market. http://bloom.bg/VOnBj2 Police fire rubber bullets at South Africa farm...
...The primary insurers are more exposed, so the likes of State Farm, Allstate and Travelers, which have big market shares in the affected areas, will be the ones to watch....
...Analysts say the biggest hits will be taken by primary US insurers including Allstate, State Farm and Travelers. Yet even among these companies investors have been mostly cool-headed....
...Mr Chacko cites the example of State Farm, the US insurer, which wanted to cut claims from turkey-fryer fires with a Thanksgiving information campaign....
...As much a metaphor for bloated, consumerist America as it is a very good tale....
...Bayer as part of its push to increase farm production - Carl Icahn seeks directorships for himself and 10 others as part of his attempts to take over Clorox - Liberty Media will pay $204m for a 16.6 per...
...Its capital ratio is already among the highest, and the group has in the past 18 months been withdrawing from businesses most prominently in the regulators’ line of fire....
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