Hints and tips:
...Brookfield Business Partners, the Canadian asset manager’s private equity unit, will take over the automotive battery-making business alongside Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, the public pension...
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...Mr Britt’s leap from corporate lawyer to entrepreneur was triggered by his experience working with internet companies in London....
...He says big utilities are copying his company’s business model now, purely because “the economics are right”....
...Eventually, he hopes, the car companies and even oil companies will embrace fuel choice. He sees the barriers more as problems of corporate inertia and ignorance than of opposing interests....
...Similarly, Tesla Motors, the electric carmaker, sees placing its stores in “high-visibility” locations such as shopping centres as helping to normalise electric cars....
...Smaller companies may occasionally find a COO useful, too. The co-founders of BSO Network Solutions, a French telecoms company, who are in their late 20s, appointed Gilles Fabre as COO in April....
...Cognizant, Capgemini in race for Oracle’s financial services business Cognizant Technology Solutions and Capgemini are among the bidders in talks to buy Oracle’s India-based financial services business unit...
...The company provides innovative solutions to photographers’ problems, and operates through a network of distributors in 55 countries....
...One trader calls it “a European solution to a global problem”....
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