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...“Thanks to biotech we have been able to create micro-organisms that can offer new, superior, even unequalled performance,” says Colonna....
...Blame car insurance and repair inflation (for details, listen to the Unhedged podcast)....
...He realised the best way to market insurance to repair broken boilers, plumbing and water damage was via utility companies. Investors have cooled on the stock in the past two years....
...HomeServe fixes pipes and boilers, operates an online portal for tradespeople and is branching out into electric charging and other services....
...“We want the man who buys one of our cars never to have to buy another,” Henry Ford said in 1922 of his Model T, a car that came with a repair kit for customers to keep it going....
...But it is hard to believe Screwfix is not cannibalising sales from B&Q, to which it is superior....
...However, Google and Facebook then adjust the bids to re‡ect their best guesses of what the user wants to see, and in that way try to leverage their superior data. Get that?...
...(Financial Times) Retail sales in Japan fell at a record pace in April, after the government pushed ahead with the first consumption tax rise in 17 years to repair its tattered finances....
...In the Cool Britannia era of the late 1990s and early 2000s there was a degree of smugness about Britain’s post-industrial economy, based on an Anglo-American model of capitalism held by some to be superior...
...The Baxi Partnership, which controls a £20m fund, was founded by Philip Baxendale, former owner of the Baxi business that made central heating boilers....
...“Some people already think that authoritarian mass democracies will provide the functionally superior model under conditions of a globalised world economy… Today many people are intimidated by a growing...
...There was a time on Wall Street when insider trading was rampant, when sellside analysts would pump stocks under the guidance of their superiors only to have their corporate finance colleagues do an equity...
...But it could take years for households to repair their balance sheets....
...In seeking to repair General Electric’s reputation for meeting investors’ expectations, Jeff Immelt is eyeing a plan that will sever ties to some of the businesses that helped make its enviable track record...
...The plants are functioning at 60 per cent capacity following expensive boiler repairs. Work has been scheduled to raise the deliverable load to 70 per cent over the next year....
...Maybe Bear’s managers just accepted the small risk of losing the lot in return for superior returns in the meantime. Hedge fund investors who put money into black-box funds make exactly that bet....
...British Energy suffered a series of long unplanned outages last year with boiler problems at its Hinkley Point B and Hunterston B plants and repairs to ironwork at Hartlepool....
...The company suffered a series of long unplanned outages last year with boiler problems at Hinkley Point B and Hunterston B and repairs to ironwork at Hartlepool....
...While shares in the nuclear power generator have fallen 23 per cent this year amid fears that boiler repairs at its Hinkley Point and Hunterston facilities are taking longer than expected, Friday’s bearish...
...It will now shut down Hunterston B unit 4 and Hinkley Point B unit 4 “to undertake any repair work required so as to be satisfied to the integrity of the boilers”....
...Landsman’s superior officer at the precinct is his ex-wife, Bina Gelbfish, and she has been brought in to pack up the last remaining open cases....
...In August, the company said it had discovered cracks in its boiler tube at Hunterston B, a 1,190 MW power station in Ayrshire....
...By James Mackintosh After Toyota was forced to recall a record 1.4m cars for repair last October, it got serious about fixing problems in an attempt to head off damage to its reputation for quality....
...Extracted from Customer Experience Management: A Revolutionary Approach to Connecting with Your Customers (John Wiley & Sons Inc)...
...We try to stay focused on the areas in which we have expertise: molecular oncology, immunology and the biology of tissue growth and repair,? says Mr McCracken. ?...
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