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...That move is part of a broader shake-up, with the company intending to move most staff into its £1bn office in King’s Cross which is under construction....
...Agricultural machinery company John Deere and Diageo make up the rest of the top five, while further down we find Canada’s national railway system; car seller AutoNation; Spanish construction company FCC...
...It’s an important win for activists in Korea Inc., where corporate behemoths including Samsung and Hyundai operate without much interference....
...He was previously a managing partner at Deloitte’s financial services advisory in London....
...KPMG has, for its part, stopped providing non-audit services for the FTSE 350 companies it audits under instruction from Michael, but that has made the company more exposed to a fall in audit fees compared...
...The company now has three factories and more than 1,200 employees in China, supplying equipment and providing fabrication services to clients in North America, Japan and Europe....
...Transparency is essential, with investors able to check easily on the rationale behind an index, its construction and methodology....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...Institutional Shareholder Services, the other big advisory firm, has not yet made a recommendation....
...These companies join Oliver Wyman, Baringa and Simon-Kucher in a cluster of seven consultancies that won the top ranking in one sector or service....
...Among buildings that have been completed are two 28-storey towers housing about 8,000 employees of various companies, including Tata Consultancy Services and Oracle....
...The Internal Revenue Service will soon start informing companies that have not complied with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) how much they must pay, according to the IRS and two US officials....
...That service ― “Betterment Plus” ― will cost 40 basis points, up from 25bp for the digital-only service....
...Samsung still lags behind competitors on software and services, say analysts....
...Overnight, Wall Street closed weaker, with US investors focusing on the EU’s decision to slap a tax penalty on Apple of up to €13bn, which weighed on sentiment toward the company and others that have enjoyed...
...It looks more like the campus of a California tech company, such as Pixar or Google, than the outskirts of an industrial estate in Isleworth.”...
...(Bloomberg) Brazil blocks WhatsApp A court in Brazil has ordered telecommunications companies to block popular messaging service WhatsApp for 48 hours, citing a failure to respond properly to a criminal...
...A partial answer arrived in the following months with the initial public offerings of Cheil Industries — with businesses ranging from construction to theme parks — and the software services company Samsung...
...The future for companies such as Charter and market leader Comcast, which is in the midst of its own $45bn mega-merger with Time Warner Cable, will lie in the provision of broadband services....
...Investment in central and eastern European property surged 25 per cent last year to €7.8bn, according to JLL, a property services company, flooding leading markets such as Warsaw, the prime location in the...
...It promises to offer the service at a fraction of the cost of the average financial adviser, 0.3 per cent of assets annually compared with an industry average of more than 1 per cent....
...Founded in 1915 to move coal along the Kentucky River, the company freights a wide range of goods, from chemicals and fertilisers to construction materials, coal and grains....
...Analysts said it would probably be central to any activist’s demands for change at the company....
...(Financial Times) The head of Saga and the AA is in line to reap an estimated £80m windfall from the expected sales of the services provider to the over 50s and the roadside recovery group....
...He asks why an investor would choose to weight a bond portfolio based on a company’s appetite for taking on more debt, rather than considering its ability to service that debt....
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