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...As well as developing rockets and engines to take cargo and crew to space, the company is leading a consortium to build a commercial space station....
...Origin, which owns the country’s largest power station, situated north of Sydney, would be broken up if the deal completes....
...The company — which initially provided haulage services to coal-fired power stations — was acquired by Severn Trent in 1991, which floated the business in 2006....
...They too would probably face significant challenges raising the necessary finance, given that both Asda and EG Group, the petrol station operator that made them their fortune, are heavily leveraged....
...and a senior researcher at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness When the European Space Agency announced its astronaut selection programme this year, its head of talent acquisition...
...Gazprom-Media declined to comment on whether its acquisition of a stake in VK increased government influence over the social media site....
...expressed doubts that either suitor could make a significant financial return on the company without selling off assets — possibly including some of its freehold stores, food manufacturing sites, petrol stations...
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...Allego is the latest provider of electric vehicle charging stations set to go public through a Spac merger, following US peers ChargePoint and EVgo last year....
...offer is less likely to attract detailed scrutiny from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, whereas a bid from CD&R may trigger an investigation because of the overlap between Morrisons’ petrol stations...
...CD&R’s offer may face antitrust scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority because the company also owns Motor Fuel Group, which operates more than 900 petrol stations....
...Morrisons’ wholesale business, which supplies convenience stores and filling stations, could also be expanded by acquisition....
...Beyond that, trips to Mars would become commonplace, he said, with the possible use of multiple space stations to form a “sky ladder” of stops for travellers along the route. 5....
...During that period it would also assess potential acquisitions, and review Morrisons’ long-term plans for its property portfolio....
...In a similarly bold play, Mohsin and Zuber Issa, the brothers who run the TDR Capital-backed petrol stations business EG Group, made their most audacious acquisition yet: buying Asda from Walmart — days...
...Smart reads Hot chip With its $35bn acquisition of Xilinx, the computer chipmaker AMD is establishing itself as a formidable force in the sector....
...The crucial step now is striking a deal with a big energy company that can help Nikola build its hydrogen fuel stations....
...Few, except for private equity with its mountains of “dry powder”, were thinking about acquisitions. But it was nothing a bit of financial stimulus couldn’t fix....
...Eldorado got the Caesars acquisition across the finish line in July. And since its shares bottomed in March, they have climbed almost tenfold to almost $60....
...CK Hutchison, the Hong Kong company once billed as the UK’s largest foreign investor, has over the years amassed a huge pile of infrastructure assets ranging from water companies, gas networks and power stations...
...Lifting off from a docking station, the device is the first product of Amazon’s push into “smart home” technology that can move under its own power — the progenitor of the home robots to come....
...Private equity firm TDR, which owns a 50 per cent stake in the petrol stations business EG Group, had held talks with EG’s co-founders Mohsin and Zuber Issa about a bid for Asda, another person briefed on...
...before the Cox acquisition”....
...At the annual Tulane mergers and acquisitions conference in New Orleans, there was more talk among US dealmakers about who was missing than over those that had turned up....
...In 2017 Colony abandoned plans to list a special acquisition vehicle on the New York Stock Exchange, which would have provided $300m for a single large deal....
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