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...So it came as a surprise to lenders when the tyre group collapsed less than a year later. Three years on, Blackstone is still trying to get its money back....
...Additional reporting by Johnnie Isaac in East London, Eastern Cape Data visualisation by Jonathan Vincent...
...That resulted in his first prototype, a motorised bicycle that did 60mph on tyres not much more than an inch wide....
.... ————— Today’s other Lombard note: Balfour Beatty looks like a rarity: a builder getting on with the job ————— matthew.vincent@ft.com...
.... ————— Today’s other Lombard note: Lookers versus the tyre-kickers ————— matthew.vincent@ft.com...
...All these works come from Tokyo’s Bridgestone Museum of Art, founded by rubber tyre magnate Shōjirō Ishibashi, whose Impressionist, modern and Japanese paintings now revisit Europe for the first time since...
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...The tyre plant closure is part of a restructuring of Michelin’s European business....
...Meanwhile, China National Chemical Corp’s agreement with the controlling shareholders of Italy’s Pirelli has paved the way for a €7bn takeover of the “Prada of the tyre industry”....
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...But from Portimão I turned tail, drove to Cape St Vincent, Portugal’s south-westernmost point, then rounded the corner and came upon a different world....
...Vincent Mifsud, head of technology (Europe), Cobham, defence industry contractor. Paul Noon, general secretary, Prospect, the trade union....
...But, as the US family found, maintenance remains a problem, with many bikes on Vélib’ stands suffering from faults, from flat tyres to broken chains and buckled wheels....
...“We’ve refurbished old plants to make them more efficient and use less fossil fuel by burning alternatives, like old tyres, and biomass, such as rice husks,” says Vincent Mages, vice-president of climate...
...He demonstrates a second artificial noise PSA is testing: a mixture of several sounds, including the noise tyres make on the road....
...other members of the nominations committee that will select the new Generali board are Alberto Nagel, chief executive of Mediobanca; Renato Pagliaro, the bank’s director general; the French businessman Vincent...
...over their alleged role in a spying case involving the use of telephone records of prominent Italian personalities between 1997 – when Telecom Italia was privatised – and 2006, by which time Pirelli, a tyre...
...“However, free trials attract tyre kickers and it’s much harder to get commitment to a buying process.”...
...The Italian conglomerate best known for its tyres on Wednesday said profits were sharply down last year....
...After all, says Mr Blake: “Behind his seemingly perfect life of glamorous friends, gold-plated tyre swings and personal chefs, there is a dark history of medical experiments, addiction and loss.”...
...Enhancements in car electronics as well as the development of more energy efficient tyres, such as Michelin’s new “energy saver” technology, are also expected to help reduce consumption and pollution....
...France’s Peugeot-Citroën also lost about 7 per cent; Porsche plunged 9 per cent, as did Continental, the German tyre and auto parts group, while Michelin, its French rival, fell 6.44 per cent....
...Its members are Cesare Geronzi, Mediobanca’s chairman, Vincent Bolloré, the French corporate raider, Dieter Rampl, the Unicredit chairman, and Mr Tronchetti, whose Pirelli tyre group is a historic Mediobanca...
...Pirelli, the tyre and real estate company, effectively nominates 16 of 20 directors at Telecom Italia, even though Pirelli and smaller partners own barely a quarter of the shares....
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