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...Wood is midway through yet another turnaround after the calamitous 2017 takeover of Amec Foster Wheeler. It is a troubled mid-cap, with a market value of £971mn and negative free cash flow....
...Descriptions of them by Martinson and her sources vary from eccentric, tax-shy wheeler-dealers to dapper, ballroom-dancing gentlemen who took care of their friends, loved their mum and who gave generously...
...nathalie.thomas@ft.com...
...The FT’s Helen Thomas dissected the move neatly this week. Unlike eighties rock goddess Bonnie Tyler, I can’t say I’m holding out for a (new) hero....
...No matter: A World Restored by Henry Kissinger supplied an early sign of what Thomas Harding calls the publisher’s “remarkable perspicacity”....
...As his admirer Sir Mortimer Wheeler used to recall, Curzon appointed Marshall in error, mistaking him for a namesake, but nonetheless, Marshall became a titan of archaeology at Taxila and other famous sites...
...agent of Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited....
...Thanks to the producer Anna Sinfield, executive producer Joe Wheeler, production assistants from Lee Maier and Amalia Swartland and mix from Chris O’Shaughnessy....
...Wood said it expected to reach settlements with UK, US and Brazilian authorities by mid-year over their investigations into possible corruption and bribery at Amec Foster Wheeler, the rival energy services...
...“It was just clinging on” thanks to a wheeler-dealer manager whom Jones described as a “Polish Del Boy”....
...Wood has been diversifying away from its North Sea oil and gas roots in recent years, a strategy that was accelerated by its £2.2bn takeover of rival engineering group Amec Foster Wheeler in 2017....
...In May, General Electric finally announced the sale of its lightbulb business, which traced its history back to Thomas Edison’s invention....
...He has been married twice before and in February divorced his second wife, barrister Marina Wheeler, with whom he has four children....
...“Things have definitely been precarious – initiatives cancelled and art fairs postponed… so it’s difficult to generate cash flow to support artists,” says Hugo Wheeler, who runs the young gallery Hot Wheels...
...The three departing members of the management board — head of sales Tim Rainsford, general counsel Rachel Wheeler and private fund labelling head Martin Jufer — will continue to hold key senior roles, the...
...Then numerous cities staged protests against overtourism; Thomas Cook collapsed; Venice flooded and the Australian bush burnt. And then came the virus....
...His move follows the resignation last month of Karen Wheeler, the official in charge of ensuring “frictionless” trade at borders after leaving the EU....
...Until recently, the majority of viable electric two-wheelers have been bicycles or urban-orientated maxi scooters such as the Vectrix VX-1 (€8,250) and BMW C-Evolution (from £14,035), with Piaggio adding...
...(NYT) Learning a hard lesson Alphaville’s Thomas Hale walks readers through the £100m student accommodation scheme that went wrong....
...“Retainer” added a rhapsodic grand piano interlude, bassist Kaya Thomas-Dyke sang folk-inflected R&B on “Falling” and Mist rapped convincingly on “Closer” from an earlier CD....
...The reality of the slowing housing market has begun to catch up with the listed property agency industry — if that is indeed the right collective term for the wheeler dealers that offer to help home buying...
...Thomas Hale of the FT’s Alphaville blog noted that Anglo’s $1m commitment to the climate-smart mining facility represented about an hour of its earnings....
...and associated persons in respect of the Foster Wheeler business”....
...“Amec Foster Wheeler continues fully to co-operate with and assist the SFO,” the company added....
...Wood Group’s £2.2bn takeover of rival Amec Foster Wheeler would accelerate its strategy to reduce its heavy reliance on volatile upstream oil and gas markets by “three to four years”, its chief executive...
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