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...chief Fred Goodwin on the fly to see if he’d finance a deal....
...B&N grew from a single store in New York in 1971 to a national chain under the ownership of Leonard Riggio and his family. But both companies were beaten by Amazon....
...The kingdom has already announced plans to boost its output capabilities to 13m barrels a day from 12m b/d....
...The two parts to be shut, which are both 70 years old, are a 65,000 b/d crude distillation unit and a 25,000 b/d fluid catalytic cracker used in the making of petrol....
...Chrysaor’s output was forecast to naturally decline over the next five years to fewer than 150,000 barrels a day, according to Wood Mackenzie, but should now hold above 200,000 b/d....
...He wants to be a world-class football coach, not a B-grade actor. He is sacked halfway through the first episode, a stunning moment in reality that the documentary naturally glosses over....
...It’d only be worse if they owned an airline as well.”...
...The unit, which traded up to 2.5m barrels a day of oil and products, has the potential to boost Vitol’s trading volumes to more than 9m b/d and reinforce its position as the world’s biggest independent oil...
...How can luxury goods companies thrive in a time of rapid political, economic and technological disruption?...
...d this year....
...Its revenues are estimated at $61.2m, according to D&B Hoovers, a business information database. The company did not respond to inquiries....
...Bernard Looney, head of BP’s exploration and production business, said on Friday that the deal should allow oil output alone to increase from 10,000 b/d to 200,000 b/d by the mid-2020s....
...B Riley FBR has hired Alex Rohan from Guggenheim Securities....
...To keep up with their peers, Watford are increasing their spending on acquisitions....
...— above 9m b/d....
...Trafigura is expected to have a growing role supplying crude to the 400,000 b/d Vadinar refinery and marketing its refined fuels domestically and internationally....
...In Algiers on Wednesday, Opec committed itself to reduce output to between 32.5m barrels a day and 33m b/d....
...Following talks in Algiers on Wednesday Opec committed to reducing output between 32.5m barrels a day and 33m b/d....
...Canada produces around 4.5m b/d of crude, of which 2.3m b/d comes from oil sands....
...Viewed through one lens, Arm’s $350m acquisition of its tech neighbour Apical is a rare instance of a FTSE 100 tech business keeping ahead of the smart revolution....
...Duncan Robinson EARNINGS Anheuser-B InB Q4 $1.46 ($1.51) BAT FY 210.47p (208.10p) D Telecom Q4 €0.168 (€0.09) Engie FY €1.104 (€1.27) Hot property For a moment last year, it looked as though the world...
...When the merger was called off, in May last year, Publicis was forced into extending Mr Lévy’s tenure, buying valuable time to come up with a plan B....
...Poor organic revenue growth over the past year has left many with the feeling that the company did not have a “Plan B” after its much-touted $35bn mega-merger with US rival Omnicom broke down in May last...
...Moreover, HRG needs surgery rather than light pruning from a green-fingered chief executive. It would make sense to split off Homebase, which lags a distant second behind B&Q....
...In Panama, energy investment group Gator Partners is planning a 400MW ethane-fuelled power plant mounted on barges that would consume 20,000 b/d of US ethane likely to be shipped from Marcus Hook, according...
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