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...These are bad for two reasons — first, backing by the holding company is unfair to independent firms that compete with the conglomerate’s subsidiary, and second, the conglomerates (like WR Grace in the 70s...
...Iain Conn will step down as chief executive of Centrica, Britain’s biggest energy supplier, after next year’s annual meeting....
...The business fell out of the family hands only once, for a decade, when it was sold to US chemical conglomerate WR Grace after the cost of a new factory took a huge financial toll....
...The accusations relate to Mr Jung’s alleged trades in stocks including WR Grace, the American chemicals company, and SanDisk, the flash memory manufacturer acquired by Western Digital in 2015....
...Other groups including Air Products and WR Grace have launched radical restructuring programmes, and all of them have had to re-evaluate their strategies following a profound upheaval in market conditions...
...Under a 2011 plan, WR Grace will fund a trust to pay people who contracted lung disease as a result of exposure to asbestos. WR Grace was not alone in falling to asbestos-related claims....
...This month Dow announced a disposal as part of that plan, selling its business providing technology and catalysts for making propylene for $500m to WR Grace....
...However, in the past few days several companies including WR Grace, Gardner Denver and Stanley Black & Decker have said they are keeping a close watch on demand and have identified savings that could be...
...While at Kirkland, Mr Freedman was based in the firm’s New York offices and was involved in the restructuring of WR Grace among other companies....
...The fund also owned $491m in shares of WR Grace, a chemicals and materials group where Mr Weschler worked in the 1980s....
...Hudson La Force, chief financial officer of WR Grace, the chemicals company, said: “We are digging through our customer order data to ensure that if we do see any slowdown in demand, we pick that up very...
...One of those companies is WR Grace, a chemical company that needs cerium and lanthanum to manufacture fluid-cracking catalysts, which help to break down heavy crude oil into gasoline....
...His past business experience is varied and includes working in the computer industry as national product manager for WR Grace and NEC Information Systems....
...The German provider of dialysis equipment and services has had its fair share of controversy since its 1996 merger with National Medical Care, whose erstwhile parent, WR Grace, fell prey to asbestos litigation...
...WR Grace has a number of outstanding liabilities related to the dangerous insulation material....
...Shares in WR Grace shot up 32.2 per cent to $10.63 while USG put on 24.5 per cent to $43.90....
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