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...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...The buyout group valued CAA at about $1bn when it took majority ownership in 2014....
...The company now has three factories and more than 1,200 employees in China, supplying equipment and providing fabrication services to clients in North America, Japan and Europe....
...He played a leading role in the arrival of Japanese companies in Hollywood three decades ago, advising Sony on its 1989 purchase of Columbia Pictures and the sale a year later of Lew Wasserman’s MCA (later...
...Shelley Pisarra, senior vice-president of research and insights at Wasserman, said: “Especially coming off the Olympics, you can go into a dry period....
...From humble beginnings running public relations for a Cleveland nightclub, he took a job as an agent at Music Corporation of America....
...It’s also the largest shareholder in truckmaker Volvo Group after buying a €3.25bn stake from activist investor Cevian late last year. Here’s the FT’s take on the company’s rapid rise to the top....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Group, an IPO adviser, and previously part of Google’s IPO team....
...Lello Della Ragione, an analyst at Italian investment bank Intermonte Sim, said VW’s trucks business could be worth about €20bn at Volvo’s multiples....
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...However, ULA’s reliability record may be challenged by a significant looming upheaval facing its main rocket, the Atlas V....
...As a result, the group was likely reported a smaller-than-expected net loss of ¥470bn, according to its preliminary figures....
...ULA is developing a new rocket system called Vulcan to replace the Atlas V and Delta rockets and end the company’s reliance for Atlas engines on the RD-180 , built in Russia....
...Volvo says it will take on liability for its autonomous vehicles — because if it did not, consumers would never trust it enough to ride in one....
...“The test of fire will be in North America,” says Mr Asumendi....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...The company announced on Tuesday that Bain had agreed to buy the group from rival Oaktree Capital....
...The hearing had debated the timetable for developing a new, US-built alternative to the Russian RD180 rocket engine, which powers the Atlas V rocket that handles many launches of US spy and other military...
...Freemium v paid: Streaming competition swells YouTube is one of several Spotify competitors bringing streaming services to the market this year....
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
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