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...Much of his firepower derives from a humble source: a small oil refining and nitrogen fertiliser company in the US heartland....
...Taobao was the pioneer, launching shopping-channel style livestreaming in 2016, but all its main competitors were copying and refining the idea when lockdowns arrived....
...Here’s Goodbody: Cranswick provided a Q1 trading update this morning reporting a strong start to the year with c.19% LFL sales growth (25% inc. acquisitions)....
...Deleverage was sizeable, with net debt falling to £1.2bn (inc deeply subordinated bonds, pre IFRS16), or down £343m YoY....
...The company’s downstream business, which includes refining, marketing and distribution, generated operating income of €558m between January and March, lower than the €663m in the same quarter last year,...
...Tesoro said the combination will make a leading and geographically diverse oil refining, marketing and logistics company and would provide a “strong platform” for growth in profits and cash generation....
...Underlying pre-tax replacement cost profits from BP’s refining and marketing operations, known as the downstream business, were $1.5bn, compared with a loss of $1.9bn a year ago....
...Husky chief executive Asim Ghosh said the group will “maintain operatorship and preserve the tight integration between our heavy oil production, marketing and refining assets,” as part of the deal....
...Thus, we expect that companies will reinvest much of the cost savings from cheaper fuel in promotions and marketing to at least maintain sales volumes.”...
...Following the demerger of its downstream refining, marketing and chemicals businesses in 2012, Conoco has turned its focus to developed countries and North America in particular....
...Mr Dunand said this could include private equity firms that have expanded into energy and mineral extraction and refining industries....
...Wilmar entered in 2007 and has quickly expanded into 10 countries, involved in the cultivation of palm oil and rubber, edible oil refining and packing, and oilseed crushing....
...The news that oil producers could export a type of oil that is lighter than regular crude depressed shares of refiners and sent the S&P Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing Index to its biggest one-day decline...
...But Reliance’s earnings rely more on refining than exploring. It is, after all, a conglomerate – and one increasingly spending to build a telecoms business too....
...The top contenders for the CEO position are Patrick Pouyanné, the head of Total’s refining and chemicals division, and Philippe Boisseau, who runs marketing and new energy operations, the people said.”...
...The Toronto-listed company said it had been granted a licence to export crude produced in Canada through a subsidiary, Tidal Energy Marketing (US), confirming weeks of speculation in oil market circles....
...Don Thompson, chief executive, said the company’s “priority markets” – the US, Germany, Japan and Australia – drove the decline, adding the company was refining its menu and refocusing its marketing in order...
...(Financial Times) “China’s top refining company joined the country’s largest oil producer in saying it would cut capital spending this year....
...As for the “selling”, the cars can sell themselves thanks to viral, social and digital marketing....
...In particular, three of the five top slots in the oil and gas sector are taken by US refining companies, with San Antonio-based Valero Energy outpacing its peers Phillips 66 and Marathon Petroleum to show...
...Given its existing relationships with Mitsubishi and Isuzu – assembling, marketing and distributing some of their models in India – the Japanese would be obvious investors....
...Both Galaxy, a Chinese equity brokerage, and Sinopec Engineering, a unit of China’s biggest refining group, had good support from such cornerstone investors....
...The writer is a professor of marketing at Ceibs...
...He has worked upstream in exploration and production, and downstream in refining and marketing. Those roles took him to Africa, Malaysia, the US and, most recently, the UK....
...It was later revealed to be Fortune High Tech Marketing, a Kentucky direct seller....
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