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...Luno’s sponsorship of All Points East suggests the crypto industry’s advertising blitzkrieg hasn’t yet died a complete death. Here, Luno has form....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...“Our agricultural industry needs to become a smart industry by utilising technologies like ICT and data linkage,” he said....
...Mitsubishi Chemical has hired Jean-Marc Gilson as its new chief, the first appointment of a foreign boss in Japan since the 2018 arrest and ousting of Carlos Ghosn....
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Rolling Stone described the bank as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity”....
...Ilyas Khan, chief executive of Cambridge Quantum Computing, a start-up that is designing applications for the technology, suggests that one of the first sectors to benefit will be the chemicals industry....
..., freezers Home electronics inc....
...Today, he cuts a burly figure weighing in at 13 stone. But when he entered treatment six months ago he was barely nine stone, having hardly eaten for a year....
...Schiller joins from Goldman, where he was a Frankfurt based managing partner and also the bank’s global co-head of chemicals. He will remain based in Frankfurt....
...This year Ganfeng Lithium, one of the country’s largest producers of the battery chemical, bought a 19.9 per cent stake in an Argentine lithium project....
...The Rolling Stones spent years trying to get out of their contracts with former manager Allen Klein....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
...Whereas traditional chemical-based pills can be copied easily by generic manufacturers when their patents expire, “biologics” are impossible to replicate precisely....
...Environmentalists, in turn, must look to incentivise farmers, rather than criticise the industry for its preoccupation with profits....
...The history of the advanced biofuels industry resembles nothing so much as the alchemists’ pursuit of the Philosopher’s Stone: a procession of false promises and broken dreams....
...It had been bought in 1980 by John du Pont, the chemical industry millionaire, sportsman and collector who kept it locked away in a vault....
...He describes turning up to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 wearing “a V-neck tennis sweater in the traditional white, maroon and black, over white pants”....
...The kindest thing one can say about the policy is that it constituted an overgenerous subsidy to an infant industry....
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
...Strategically, the Biennale is good for the jewellery industry, but how does it fit in with the art and antiques? The jewellery is not antique, so is it art?...
...Two other US manufacturers – Lyondell Chemical and Smurfit Stone – sold USD 1.5bn of exit loans last month with the same covenant-lite structures investors purportedly swore off for good just a few years...
...The Institute for Turnaround, with some 250 members, is working hard to improve quality controls in the recovery industry....
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