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...The IPO would make Azelis the world’s fourth-largest listed chemicals distributor in a highly fragmented €117bn market....
...deal with Sinopec follows an announcement on Monday from Cheniere Energy, a US natural gas producer, that it had signed a 13-year agreement to sell gas to a subsidiary of ENN Natural Gas, a Chinese gas distributor...
...Shareholders of AmerisourceBergen delivered a strong message to the US’s third-largest drug distributor in March....
...The closest in chemical composition to polyhalite is potassium magnesium sulphate (SOPM), a 1.7m tonne per year market....
...Mr Fyrwald joined Syngenta in 2016, after many years in senior management with US-based chemical companies, most recently as chief executive of Univar, a global chemicals distributor....
...Sinochem controls the world’s largest fertiliser distributor Sinofert, China Seeds and a portion of China’s national oil reserves thanks to its past as a monopoly importer....
..., National Starch & Chemical Company 1992 Consultant, Arthur D....
...Repsol, which is working with Deutsche Bank and Citigroup to find a buyer for the domestic gas distributor, has received separate expressions of interest from Temasek, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund,...
...A federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, on Wednesday confirmed the damages award to thousands of chemical manufacturers and distributors that said they paid excess prices for urethanes, an intermediate product...
...ENN’s vision is shared by others, including Clean Energy Fuels Corp, the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, and Royal Dutch Shell, the energy group....
...Major shareholders of China Gas include a subsidiary of SK Group of Korea, China Gas founder Liu Minghui, and rival gas distributor Beijing Enterprises Group....
...The company, one of the world’s biggest chemical groups, dropped 2.3 per cent to $49.43, as analysts estimated that the US chemical group’s second-quarter earnings would suffer....
...It also has a majority holding in Brazil’s largest natural gas distributor, Comgás, and a stake in a gas pipeline between Latin America’s largest economy and its neighbour, Bolivia....
...The vast bulk, about 85 per cent, is earned by distributors in the US. (European figures are similar.) It is the inadvertent washing of these dirty dollars that HSBC was accused of....
...Hong Kong-listed China Gas recently rejected a hostile offer from Sinopec, China’s largest oil and gas refiner, and ENN, a Chinese gas distributor....
...The deal may value the Hong Kong-listed gas distributor at about $2bn, based on a 25 per cent premium, the newspaper says, citing a person familiar with the matter who said Sinopec and ENN were expected...
...But once granted, this proposed acquisition of one of China’s biggest gas distributors by another (assisted by Asia’s largest refiner) may play out much like battles elsewhere....
...Mr Rubin said such strategies helped him win a new contract with Akzo Nobel, the Dutch paint and chemicals group. Mr Rubin has also instituted a “customer of the month” award....
...Richard Evans, head of chemical practice at KPMG, the professional services firm, says the chemicals sector had shrugged off the downturn....
...Premier Farnell dropped 7.9 per cent to 158p after the electronics distributor’s sales guidance disappointed, even though management saw cost savings offsetting the weakness....
...A profit warning sent Premier Farnell lower by 20.1 per cent to 195p, with the electronics distributor flagging just three weeks after results that demand had deteriorated....
...The company provides innovative solutions to photographers’ problems, and operates through a network of distributors in 55 countries....
...“The difference today is the added challenge of replenishing the fertiliser pipeline – from farmers’ soils to the distributor supply chain – which will be essential to meeting global food demand,” the company...
...Sinochem is China’s largest fertilizer distributor, and until 1998 held a government monopoly on fertilizer imports....
...These included Amadeus, the Spanish travel reservation group; Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s biggest cable operator; and Brenntag, the German chemicals distributor....
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