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...Authentic, which is co-owned by former basketball star Shaquille O’Neal and whose portfolio also includes Ted Baker and Reebok, bought Hunter and some unsold stock for £70mn after a competitive bidding process...
...The month before he shipped welding electrodes, insulation silicone and generators to his base in CAR....
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...The switch to Vulcan will “raise the level of scrutiny” that ULA faces, says Mr Peluso....
...There was also substantial discussion about ULA’s prospects for delivering its planned Vulcan rocket system, which is meant to end the company’s reliance on Russian rocket engines....
...Aerojet said the AR1 would be ready to fly on Atlas V in 2020 and on Vulcan by 2021, only just behind the 2019 finish date that Blue Origin is targeting....
...ULA last week signed an agreement with Blue Origin to expand production of the BE-4 engine that ULA hopes to use to power Vulcan when it first flies in 2019....
...However, Vulcan’s more colourful innovations are likely to attract most attention....
...Charterhouse is considering a flotation of German insulation company Armacell, which it bought from private equity rival Investcorp in May 2013....
...A power panel in the aft electronics bay failed, leading to a fire involving an insulation blanket. Backup systems successfully engaged and the fire went out on its own, the company said....
...Insulation supplier SIG was up 4.2 per cent 106p in the wake of stakebuilding by IKO, a Canadian construction company....
...Building insulation and roofing group SIG slumped 7.2 per cent to 710p as Ireland’s Kingspan cautioned on the outlook for the building materials market....
...Overnight, US rivals Vulcan and Martin Marietta Materials both issued reassuring fourth quarter outlook statements....
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