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...The company, which was founded in Iraq in 1924, has a long history in the Middle East and merged with Africa-focused Elf in 2000....
...Earlier this year, the FDA issued enforcement orders allowing customs officials to seize shipments of Elf Bar/EB Design, Esco Bar and Breeze vaping products....
...They now account for 17 per cent of total sales and Marroco said the company was “well on track” to achieve 50mn customers in non-combustible products by 2030, up from the current 24mn....
...That propelled Pouyanné first of all into advisory and chief of staff jobs in the French government before Elf came calling....
...Neither Lost Mary or Elf Bar, which combined account for more than half of all vapes sold in the UK, had a stand there....
...Total said it was “wrong to claim that the climate risk was concealed by Total or Elf in the 1970s or since”, adding that the company’s historic knowledge of climate risk was no different from that published...
...The United States secretary of education Betsy DeVos demonstrates a total lack of credibility while posing by an empty shelf....
...Now, we must salute the bravery of any media figure who dines with our chief feature writer; who can forget his lunch with mogul Richard Desmond (total cost: £758.81)?...
...As Bloomberg recalls, he first set about trying to get France’s largest oil producer at the time, Elf, to acquire the company. But once they resisted, he tapped Elf’s smaller rival Total....
...And don't forget your elf and safety . . ....
...The total cost to the finance industry of clearing and settling trades is estimated at $65bn-$80bn a year, according to a report last year by consultants Oliver Wyman....
...Elf costumes are not compulsory for the 100,000 temporary staff the ecommerce group is now hiring, but reports suggest that employees need to be able to perform under pressure....
...De Margerie replaced Thierry Desmarest, the chief executive who turned Total into the world’s fourth-largest oil company by acquiring Petrofina of Belgium and Elf Aquitaine of France....
...In France, Total combined with Elf. In the US when BP bought Amoco (and later Arco), Chevron grabbed Texaco and Exxon merged with Mobil over the space of a year....
...A year later, Elf Aquitaine fired up a $51bn Pac-Man defence against TotalFina....
...It is the fifth-largest in the history of the natural resources sector, ranking alongside the mega-mergers between Exxon and Mobil, BP and Amoco, Chevron and Texaco and Total and Elf that transformed the...
...and Elf that transformed the oil industry in the late 1990s....
...Driven by a low oil price, it kicked off a string of the follow-on tie-ups between Exxon and Mobil, Texaco and Chevron, and Total with Fina and Elf. Indeed BP has a history of being a “first mover”....
...The takeover is the fifth-largest in the history of the natural resources sector, ranking alongside the mega-mergers between Exxon and Mobil, BP and Amoco, Chevron and Texaco and Total and Elf that transformed...
...Remarkably, it was found within three metres of where the French explorer Elf Aquitaine, now part of Total, drilled but failed to find oil in 1971....
...He was a pillar of the opaque networks that entwined Paris and the capitals of its former colonies in Africa through clientelism, freemasonry and then Elf Aquitaine, the French oil company now part of Total...
...In 1999, the two brothers, drafted in by French oil group Elf Aquitaine to defend it against a hostile takeover from Total Fina, its rival, devised the first “Pac-Man” defence in France, whereby a target...
...The siblings have worked alongside each other in other deals, including when they advised Elf Aquitaine in 1999 to defend the French oil group against a hostile takeover from rival Total Fina and in 2004...
...The retail federation has forecast a 4.1 per cent rise in total retail sales over the full length of the holiday season following a 5.6 per cent increase in 2011....
...For years, Total was wrapped up with absorbing rivals Elf Aquitaine and Petrofina. But speaking to investors last month, he admitted that for some time the enlarged group had “lacked new projects”....
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