Companies & CEOs
FT: Billions of dollars of Western companies' profits are stuck in Russia - 09/19/2023
Western companies that continue to do business in Russia gained more than $18 billion in profits in 2022. However, Russia had frozen these cash, The Financial Times writes. Raiffeisenbank recorded the highest profit for 2022 at $2 billion. Raiffeisen Bank International confirmed that it has "no access" to Russian profits. US PepsiCo made $718 million, while Philip Morris made $775 million....
De Beers refuses plans to sell engagement rings with synthetic diamonds - 09/14/2023
The group revealed plans to introduce engagement rings with lab-grown synthetic diamonds in 2018. De Beers Group's intended launch of lab-grown synthetic diamond engagement rings has been shelved, said the one of the biggest producers of natural diamonds in the world. According to market studies, there is an unsustainable demand for synthetic diamonds, according to a statement by De Beers, as...
Inditex increases half-year net profit by 40% - 09/13/2023
One of the biggest apparel retailers in the world, Spain's Industria de Diseno Textil SA (Inditex), saw a 40% increase in net profit and a 13.5% increase in revenue in the first half of its fiscal year 2023 (February to July). Net profit for the first half of the year increased from €1.79 billion to €2.51 billion for the company. Revenue grew to €16.85 billion from €14.85 billion a year earlier....
Qualcomm to supply modem systems for iPhone for three more years - 09/12/2023
Qualcomm Inc. will continue to provide Apple Inc. with modem systems for the iPhone for at least another three years. A press release from Qualcomm reads that the business has agreed to provide Snapdragon 5G Modem-RF systems for Apple handsets scheduled to debut in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The deal's financial details weren't made public. According to Qualcomm, they are the same as in the prior...
JM Smucker to pay $4B for baked goods maker Hostess - 09/12/2023
According The Wall Street Journal sources, US food producer J.M. Smucker Co. stated that it would pay $4 billion to acquire Hostess Brands, a maker of baked goods. The Smucker Company was founded in Ohio in 1897. The company's primary business segments are jam, syrup, and peanut butter manufacture. The producer also produces Jif peanut butter, Milk-Bone dog food, Folgers and Cafe Bustelo coffee....
British Virgin Media O2 to buy Internet provider Upp - 09/07/2023
The amount of the deal is still unknown. The multinational investment firm LetterOne, which is linked to Russian investors Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman, has agreed to sell the local Internet service provider Upp to British telecom giant Virgin Media O2. LetterOne attempted to dispute the British government's decision to order the sale of regional Upp in December 2022 because to security...
Reuters: Arm to be valued at $50-54B in IPO - 09/05/2023
According to Reuters, which cited its own sources, Arm plans to set the opening price of its shares as part of the initial public offering on Nasdaq in the region of $47 to $51. As a result, the business will be valued at $50–54 billion, far less than earlier projections. Late in August, British microprocessor maker Arm, which is owned by Softbank of Japan, said that it had applied for a US...
Nikkei: Toyota to produce over 10 million cars in a year for the first time in 2023 - 08/31/2023
6.8 million of them will be produced overseas and 3.4 million will be made in Japan. For the first time ever, Toyota Motor Corporation will assewmble more than 10 million vehicles over the course of a year, reports Nikkei newspaper. The plan is set at a level of 10.2 million cars, as the company’s data suggests. Of them, 3.4 million cars will be made in Japan, and the remaining 6.8 million will...
Switzerland to probe UBS’s takeover of Credit Suisse - 08/29/2023
According to Patrik Ducrey, the organization's director, the Swiss Competition Commission (Weko) is reviewing the terms of UBS's acquisition of Credit Suisse. "We will present our position to the Financial Markets Supervisory Authority at the end of September," Ducrey stated. He made no mention of the specific antitrust laws that may have been broken. The price of Credit Suisse shares on the...
Evergrande shares fall by 80% after trading resumes - 08/28/2023
The company had previously submitted an application to start trading its shares again on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on August 28. After nearly a year and a half without trading, shares of Evergrande, one of China's major real estate development businesses, have returned to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with an 80% decline. During the morning session, Evergrande shares were down 87%, but...