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Toyota Recalls 116,000 Hi-Lux Vehicles

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
The recall is to check support brackets

Categories: Chemical & Related

The Payoff from Investing in Pricing Capabilities

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
In an analysis of the 1,200 largest public companies around the globe, a 1% increase in price levels would net, on average, an 8.7% improvement in profit.

Categories: Chemical & Related

HP Files Complaint Against Former CEO Over Oracle Job

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
Said Hurd would be placing HP's 'most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril'

Categories: Chemical & Related

Solar Plane Plans First Flights Across Switzerland

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
Solar Impulse HB-SIA's first successful 24-hour flight occurred in early July.

Categories: Chemical & Related

Accenture Wins $73 Million Energy Supply Chain Integration Contract

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
When the energy integration is complete, the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency DLA will have added more than $18 billion in traceable items to its fully integrated logistics supply chain.

Categories: Chemical & Related

Chevron to Explore Three China Deepwater Sites

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
In accordance with Chinese regulations, the explorations will be done in partnership with China National Offshore Oil Corp.

Categories: Chemical & Related

LaCrosse Footwear Opens New Danner Factory in Oregon

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
Company says it will use lean manufacturing techniques to improve operating efficiencies

Categories: Chemical & Related

Former HP CEO Named Oracle Co-president

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
'Mark Hurd did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he'll do even better at Oracle,' Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said.

Categories: Chemical & Related

Dollar Falls to 15-year Low Against Yen

Industry Week - 2 min 5 sec ago
The steady rise in the value of the yen in recent weeks has unnerved Japanese authorities who see the trend as a threat to Japanese exports and ultimately to the country's recovery.

Categories: Chemical & Related

Web-Bargain Luxury Comes to Japan

A surging yen is encouraging third-party websites to jump in with deep discounts on high-end luxury goods in Japan, where high-end retailers have been able to charge premiums for decades.
Categories: Business

India Court Rules Against Vodafone

Wall Street Journal - US Business - 10 min 13 sec ago
An Indian court ruled that the country's authorities have the right to tax Vodafone International Holdings's purchase of a majority stake in a local mobile-service provider.
Categories: Business

Global-Bank Deal Targets Reserves

Wall Street Journal - US Business - 15 min 53 sec ago
Global banking regulators appear poised to demand larger reserves, which they believe will prevent a future financial crisis, and reserves of higher quality, under so-called Basel 3.
Categories: Business

Mercedes-Benz India Car Sales Surge

Wall Street Journal - US Business - 19 min 12 sec ago
The Indian unit of German luxury car maker Daimler said car sales in August more than doubled, driven by the introduction of the new E-Class and C-Class sedans.
Categories: Business

GGP to Start New CEO Hunt

Mall owner General Growth Properties will soon launch a search for executives to replace CEO Adam Metz and COO Thomas Nolan as it prepares to exit bankruptcy court protection.
Categories: Business

Biggest Battles in Biopharma

FiercePharma - 27 min 13 sec ago

You know the picture: Two pharma CEOs, shaking hands and smiling as cameras flash and video rolls. It's been common enough, especially recently, as Pfizer and Wyeth, Merck and Schering-Plough announced their big mergers.

But that's not always the way M&A goes. While many pharma deals over the past 20 years have been relatively friendly, others haven't. Hostile bids, media grandstanding, warring press releases--unfriendly mergers have triggered them all.

The following list includes some of the biggest battles of the last two decades. We've covered a few of them ourselves, but others are before our time, such as Pfizer's Warner-Lambert takeover. Click below to get all the details on some of the industry's biggest takeover battles.
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Report by BP Finds Several Companies at Fault in Spill

NY Times Business - 32 min 8 sec ago
The internal report tries to undermine the notion that BP acted negligently, focusing on decisions by contractors like Transocean and Halliburton.

Categories: Business

BP: No Single Factor Caused Gulf Spill

Wall Street Journal - US Business - 32 min 59 sec ago
BP issued a long-awaited investigative report that says a complex series of failures and bad decisions—by itself and other companies—led to the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Categories: Business

Britain Backs New E.U. Oversight Plan

NY Times Business - 44 min 5 sec ago
Britain’s chancellor of the Exchequer endorsed new agencies to supervise financial actions.

Categories: Business
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