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...Green groups and investors are shining a spotlight on the need for energy efficient and resilient homes to play a part in that process....
...New York-based Lemonade, which provides home insurance to renters, sold $10m of policies last year and says that it managed to pay one claim within three seconds of it being made....
..., consumer products and natural resources....
...The move may be pre-emptive: president-elect Donald Trump has pledged to push US companies to make more of their products at home....
...(New York Times) Cisco Systems’ quarterly sales and profit forecasts exceeded analysts’ estimates, an early sign that the company is overhauling its product line fast enough to stay ahead of shifts in the...
...A round up of some of the week’s most significant corporate events and news stories. US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...Japanese companies are under intensifying pressure to demonstrate better corporate governance and return on equity Meiji’s lunge for StanCorp — an Oregon-based company that sells insurance and retirement...
...The result has been a collective lunge by Japan Inc for businesses ranging from banks and niche cigarette brands to logistics companies and the Financial Times....
...Ace operates across a broader range of products and is more global....
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...(FastFT) Despite the UK’s economic recovery, productivity growth is “still abysmal”, real wages are running below the rate of inflation, and gross domestic product per head is unlikely to return to pre-crisis...
...Travelers Companies gained 2.1 per cent to $86.35 after the insurance group said it would boost its quarterly dividend after reporting strong first-quarter results....
...Selling the stakes in their affiliates could be a boon for Samsung Life and other financial subsidiaries such as Samsung Card and Samsung Fire & Marine – they might be able to put the proceeds to better...
...Petsmart, provider of products and services for pets, also beat profits and revenue estimates on strong sales and operating efficiencies. The company also raised its full-year outlook....
...& Sons Textiles t/a Brisbane Moss Mackays Marine Data Systems Marks and Spencer Group (S) Medaxial Meech International Metricell (I) Mettler Toledo Safeline Millers Oils Milmega (I) Milspeed...
...In the non-life sector, Tokio Marine, one of Japan’s leading non-life insurance companies, acquired Philadelphia Consolidated, a US property and casualty insurance company, for $4.7bn in 2008....
...Nevertheless, he points out, some companies in a range of industries “have continued to experience difficulties getting products and materials in and out of Japan, not just in the region worst hit by the...
...RSA will join a handful of marine insurers prepared to take on business of this size – including Navigators and General, Travelers, Chartis, Markel and Watkins, a Lloyd’s syndicate specialising in the marine...
...access to capital to serve companies and retail customers around the world....
...It is the largest insurance industry deal since St. Paul merged with Travelers in a $16bn deal in 2003....
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...Now in demand as a motivational speaker for business audiences, his face has also been seen on advertisements for consumer products such as Flora ProActiv, the cholesterol-busting spread, and Admiral insurance...
...Third sector insurance products occupy a position in between life and damage insurance and were first provided by foreign insurance companies in Japan....
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