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...Operating margins for the division have trailed behind the two remaining businesses by no less than 500 basis points....
...Waterford Wedgwood was burning cash at a rate of $110m a year when it was taken over by KPS....
...WWRD has since swung into the black, with operating profits last year of £36m. The group still makes its most expensive china and crystal domestically....
...Waterford Wedgwood was bought out of receivership by KPS, a US private equity firm, in 2009....
...Ted Gaffney, Waterford, CT, US...
...After four successful decades at the company, however, he agreed in 1986 to a £250m “white knight” takeover bid by Waterford, the Irish crystal manufacturer, and watched with sadness as Waterford Wedgwood...
...The collapse this year of Waterford/Wedgwood, in the latter’s 250th year (and despite the mitigating Art Fund prize to the Wedgwood Museum) seemed the final blow to a city that was already reeling....
...The three measures come after a sharp fall in US gas prices pushed the Aim-listed oil and gas explorer into an operating loss of $175.2m (£106m) in 2008....
...His son Gavin, who has been chief operating officer of INM for the past eight years, will take over as chief executive upon Mr O’Reilly’s retirement....
...Waterford Wedgwood collapsed into administration earlier this year. Royal Doulton is no more....
...Microsoft achieved something similar in information technology when it developed the Windows operating system....
...Wedgwood, which merged with Waterford of Ireland in 1986, was set up in the Staffordshire city 250 years ago....
...What may seem like a meagre sum is actually about 25 per cent of NAMI-Racine’s operating budget....
...Operating profits are expected to rise between 5.1 per cent and 7.32 per cent this year. “We effectively managed the sales through a period that was going to be difficult,” says Mr Wolfson....
...Sales of Waterford Crystal fell 6.6 per cent to €206.5m. But at the ceramics division sales rose 20 per cent. FT Comment: Waterford Wedgwood is not out of the woods yet....
...Operating losses widened to €69.4m compared with €47.4m last time, hampered by operating costs which rose to €463.3m....
...It has opened an office in Waterford, in Ireland, with a view to launching the service there....
...Mr Cameron has been group chief operating officer since June 2004 after joining the company in June 1999 following Waterford Wedgwood’s acquisition of All-Clad, the premium cookware business where he was...
...“In the event, the business recorded an operating loss of €82.2m, which greatly disappoints all of us.”...
...Falling volumes and the strong dollar caused operating losses of €21.4m (£15m), against profits last time of €4.2m. Waterford makes half its sales in the US....
...Trading volumes of 4.2bn shares was swelled by 400m shares traded in Waterford Wedgewood, the china maker, after it completed a 5-for-3 rights issue....
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