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- Boots awaits outcome in Swedish auction of pharmacies
- Alliance Boots, Europe's largest pharmacy group, is among bidders poised to learn their fate this week in an auction of Sweden's monopoly pharmaceutical retailer.The group best known for the Boots chain in the UK is bidding for one of two large clusters of stores being sold by the Swedish...
- External links 2009-11-08
- Nuclear fuel plant would safeguard 1,400 jobs
- A plant producing nuclear fuel for the new generation of reactors is set to be developed at Springfields in Lancashire, safeguarding 1,400 jobs at the site and securing for British industry some of the benefits of the revival of nuclear power.Westinghouse, the privatised nuclear engineering company now owned by...
- External links 2009-09-09
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- DrKW gears up to pitch for [euro]125bn French privatisations.
- Byline: Georgina Leslie Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein has appointed Vincent Hubert to a new role as head of French equity capital markets, to compete for large scale privatisations in France.Hubert joins from ABN Amro Rothschild, where he was head of French ECM for three years....
- Research articles 2004-04-20
- French utilities privatisations may start this autumn.
- Byline: Guy Paisner in Paris Francis Mer, the recently-elected French minister for the economy, finance and industry, has indicated that the hotly anticipated privatisations of French utilities Electricite de France EdF and Gaz de France GdF could take place as early as the autumn.In...
- Research articles 2002-07-12
- EGYPT - The Economic Base.
- Rapid GDP growth and privatisations, with the emergence of big private business groups going public and family empires branching into various sectors, have turned Egypt into a tiger economy. This is thanks to IMF's macroeconomic stabilisation plan l Rapid GDP growth and privatisations, with the...
- Research articles 2000-01-03
- Putin reassures jittery foreign investors at German trade fair
- HANOVER, Germany AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to reassure jittery foreign investors that his government had no plans to reverse controversial privatisations when he opened one of the world's biggest trade fairs with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. "I insist on the fact that all the speculation on...
- Research articles 2005-04-10
- Brazil: CVRD buys 152,000 steel ties from Acominas.
- Brazil, Oct 18, 2001 CVRD Companhia Vale do Rio Doce made a R$15mil deal with steel mill Acominas for the acquisition of 152,000 steel ties for Estrada de Ferro Vitoria-Minas. Until August any Latin American company made such product which used to be imported...
- Research articles 2001-10-18
- Govts Could Take 7 Yrs to Exit Bank Stakes
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Governments may take up to seven years to sell stakes in banks bailed out during the financial crisis, due to complexity of rescue deals and an unattractive disposal environment, PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Thursday.Any hopes of a swift government exit are misplaced, accountant PwC said, citing the...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Spanish socialists, privatising the right way?(Special Issue on Politics and Policy in Democratic Spain: No Longer Different?)
- Few students of contemporary Spanish politics have sought to explain the seemingly paradoxical commitment to privatisation of state enterprises by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party PSOE. Focusing on the sales of two major companies Seat and Enasa formerly belonging to Spain's National Industry Institute INI, this essay argues that INI...
- Research articles 1998-10-01
- Al-Jazeera to go public
- DOHA AFP — The satellite news channel Al-Jazeera which is financed by the state of Qatar is to go public, its spokesman told AFP. "The form of privatisation is to be decided over the coming months, on the basis of the final results of a study being carried out...
- Research articles 2005-01-31
- Privatisation of big Ukrainian steel company ruled illegal
- KIEV AFP — A Ukrainian court ruled that the privatisation of the country's largest steel enterprise, Krivorizhstal, was illegal. The decision paves the way for the sale to be annulled by the supreme court and comes a day after Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said the government planned to review...
- Research articles 2005-02-17
- You don't need to be filthy rich for a private bank anymore just rich
- Private bank accounts used to be available only to the super-rich but, these days, it appears we are all filthy rich because financial institutions are falling over themselves to offer wealth-management services. Anyone with a nest egg of between #25,000 and #50,000 can now get a private...
- Research articles 2001-06-24
- Rafsanjani pledges 'interactive' diplomacy -- but no mention of US
- TEHRAN AFP — Leading Iranian presidential candidate Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani released his election manifesto, promising a "interactive and constructive diplomacy" but without mentioning relations with the United States. In a 24-page "pact with the people", the top cleric also vowed Monday to "effectively" defend human rights, improve freedom of...
- Research articles 2005-05-30
- Greece signs memorandum with Greek-US group on Olympic Airlines
- ATHENS AFP — The Greek government has signed a memorandum with Greek-American consortium York Capital/Olympic Investors for the privatisation of ailing national carrier Olympic Airlines, the economy ministry said in a statement. "The inter-ministerial committee on privatisations ... has approved a memorandum between the Greek state and the York...
- Research articles 2005-08-05
- Tens of thousands protest at government policies in Athens
- ATHENS AFP — Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the centre of Athens against the conservative government's economic and social policies, calling for better working conditions and condemning privatisations. Journalists covering the demonstration put the turnout at more than 20,000, while the organisers, the communist-linked Front for Trade...
- Research articles 2005-11-12
- Airports are struggling to take off.
- May 15, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Australia's privatised airports have faced a series of challenges over the past five years. The Asian financial crisis, for example, hit just after Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth airports were sold. In 2001, the...
- Research articles 2002-05-23
- Prime Infrastructure plans A$400 million IPO.
- May 22, 2002 The Australian Financial Markets Newsletter ABIX via COMTEX -- Prime Infrastructure will float on the Australian Stock Exchange in July 2002. The offer of 284.5 million stapled securities at $A1 per security will help to create a $A400m listed investment vehicle....
- Research articles 2002-05-22
- Secondary operations a runaway success.(Brief Article)
- Apr 13, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Avalon Airport, west of Melbourne, is proving a success story for 100 owner Lindsay Fox, of Linfox trucking renown. Linfox paid $A10 million for the leasehold in 1997, in one of Australia's first ...
- Research articles 2005-04-13
- Official calls for limits on new banks in China.
- Jan 02, 2003 (The Asian Wall Street Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) Key suggestions have been made about the banking sector in China. In late 2002, the proposals came from Tang Min, an economist with the Asian Development Bank. He said the Chinese Government should...
- Research articles 2003-01-03
- Local governments in China gear up for privatisation wave.
- May 13, 2003 (The Asian Wall Street Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) The Chinese Government has granted local governments around the country the right to sell their assets. The central Government is hoping that the new round of privatisations will reduce bureaucracy and stimulate...
- Research articles 2003-05-13
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