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“The market is also strong in India, where the company will start producing Land Rover models next year.”
“But although the company is hoping to grow, it is still planning to go ahead with its plan to close either its factory at Castle Bromwich or its Solihull factory within 10 years.”
“We will need to manufacture at least two models in China,”
“We'll take one to two years to set it up,”
“where it is planning to hire an extra 1,000 workers this year.”
“It takes a year or two before the jobs become permanent,”
“During the year to March, 193,982 vehicles were sold and this year the company expects to sell more than 200,000.”
“Jaguar sales rose 38% and Land Rover sales rose 55% during the year.”
“The fund was set up in 2001 to support projects by non-profit organisations to attract more holidaymakers.”
“The panel said it asked the minister if private sector organisations could also apply for grants.”
“Peter Scott & Co has been in operation for more than 130 years in the town.”
“A Borders knitwear firm has gone into administration with the loss of more than 100 jobs.”
“Last year it signed a multi-million pound contract with a German retail group which it hoped would make it one of Europe's biggest brands.”
“A spokeswoman for the firm confirmed that administrators had been appointed on Friday morning.”
“They made 119 of the company's 140-strong work force redundant and now hope to sell the business as a going concern.”
“In January more than 100 jobs were lost after Innerleithen-based JJ & HB Cashmere went into administration.”
“And it notes that at Andersonstown library last year, there were almost 31,000 through the door...”
“...while at another axed facility in Ballymacarrett there were almost 32,000 vistors.”
“Cowell will receive his honour at the Bafta TV awards on 6 June”
“Later this year the 50-year-old will be honoured with an International Emmy award in recognition of his television work.”
“In 2010 a propoosal by satellite broadcaster Multichoice to offer a 24 hour pornography channel was abandoned after a deluge of complaints.”
“The firm employs 12 people”
“Looking at it now I can tell you that's at least £2m to £3m of damage, although I don't know exactly until we get confirmation of the extent of the damage.”
“The firm employs 12 people and manager Azher Shareef said:”
“Toyota, the world's biggest car maker, said it made more than 591,000 vehicles last month - up 61% on last year. Its exports also more than doubled.”
“with Nissan reporting an 80% increase in exports to North America. Nissan said its production rose by 57% compared with April last year, with exports rising by more than 70%.”
“Mazda's production was up 51%, with exports rising 37%.”
“Lewis's, which has been part of the city's fabric for 150 years, shuts for good on Saturday.”
“construction work will start to convert the building into a mix of offices, a 125-bed boutique hotel and new shopping and leisure space.”
“Lewis's department store was founded in 1856 by David Lewis”
“It was burned down in 1886 and then bombed during World War II but was rebuilt in 1956.”
“Fixtures and fittings, some of them dating back to the 1950s on the unused fifth floor, are being sold.”
“If you are looking at cuts of this nature so quickly, clearly it will affect jobs,”
“the production of a major report that set out a strategy to grow the British space industry over the next 20 years, creating 100,000 jobs in the process.”
“Shell has agreed to buy US natural gas explorer East Resources for $4.7bn (£3.2bn).”
“East Resources holds more than 650,000 acres in the Marcellus shale, a rock formation running from West Virginia to New York, said to have vast amounts of natural gas.”
“KKR invested $350m in East Resources for a substantial stake only 11 months ago, according to the Wall Street Journal.”
“Shell also revealed it had bought 250,000 acres of mineral rights in the Eagle Ford shale in south Texas.”
“Most of this money for this transformation will go in redundancy payments and the higher up the level you get in staff, the more in jeopardy these jobs will be.”
“prices which range from $150 to $70,000”
“profits for last year rose 23%”
“saw April sales rebound by 24%”
“Kate Veale has been working on her Mr Moon series for 10 years”
“Mr Moon will debut on the Disney channel this summer.”
“It took 10 years for her to realise her screen dream.”
“She realised her idea had potential following a 'lucky' meeting with a chief executive from Universal Studios at an international fair 10 years ago.”
“It would take 10 years of hard work before I saw any reward from the project.”
“Ms Veale has the option to remain as art director on a second series but is also considering developing two or three other ideas.”
“there are about 30 abattoirs in Wales.”
“We went down this route 11 years ago”
“to be published on creator Ian Fleming's birthday - 28 May - next year.”
“Recent condition surveys estimate such properties in the Wigtownshire area will require repairs costing nearly £1.5m over the next five years.”
“and, since September last year, has been discussing with unions how it will implement them.”
“Plans for directors to submit to an annual shareholder vote form part of an overhaul of the code of conduct for the UK's top 350 listed companies.”
“directors are currently re‑elected every three years”
“At present, a quarter of FTSE 100 companies have no female board members”
“Half of all consumers are female but only 12 per cent of FTSE 100 directors are”
“The new edition of the code will apply to financial years, starting after 29 June”
“The FRC aims to report back with a final code by the end of June”
“It is a seen as a way to increase accountability, as directors are currently re-elected every three years. The Financial Reporting Council's new code will also demand that gender and diversity is explicity considered when new board member…”
“It is a seen as a way to increase accountability, as directors are currently re-elected every three years.”
“The new edition of the code will apply to financial years, starting after 29 June.”
“The FRC aims to report back with a final code by the end of June.”
“starting after 29 June.”
“by the end of June.”
“Russia supplies about a quarter of the EU's gas needs”
“There will be some stock on the shelves. But it's likely that it will only last for tomorrow”
“There will be some stock on the shelves. But it's likely that it will only last for tomorrow,”
“But now Brazil expects the region's forthcoming 2010-11 harvest to be its biggest on record, with a projected 33.5 million tonnes of sugar.”
“In recent years, 60% of the country's sucrose has been turned into ethanol instead of sugar, as Brazilian roads have seen a big increase in the number of "flex-fuel" cars running on a mix of petrol and alcohol.”
“More than 90% of new cars in Brazil can handle ethanol as a fuel, thanks to a biofuel programme that began in the mid-1970s, as a way for the military government of the day to reduce its dependence on oil imports.”
“About 3% of the country's electricity now comes from this source. Unica predicts that this will increase to 14% by 2020.”
“According to the country's agriculture ministry, it will produce 28.5 billion litres of ethanol in the 2010-11 season, up from 25.8 billion the year before.”
“state-owned Petrobras spent $920m on a 46% share of the country's fourth-largest ethanol group, Acucar Guarani.”
“Royal Dutch Shell announced a $12bn tie-up with Brazilian firm Cosan, the world's biggest ethanol and sugar processor, that will see them merge their ethanol and fuel distribution units.”
“In the past three years, the proportion of Brazilian cane ethanol mills with foreign backing has gone up from 7% to 22%, according to consulting group Dextron Management.”
“Brazil intends to carry on exporting a steady 15% of its ethanol.”
“In recent years, 60% of the country's sucrose has been turned into ethanol instead of sugar”
“More than 90% of new cars in Brazil can handle ethanol as a fuel”
“About 3% of the country's electricity now comes from this source”
“Unica predicts that this will increase to 14% by 2020”
“it will produce 28.5 billion litres of ethanol in the 2010-11 season, up from 25.8 billion the year before”
“state-owned Petrobras spent $920m on a 46% share of the country's fourth-largest ethanol group, Acucar Guarani”
“Royal Dutch Shell announced a $12bn tie-up with Brazilian firm Cosan”
“In the past three years, the proportion of Brazilian cane ethanol mills with foreign backing has gone up from 7% to 22%”
“Brazil intends to carry on exporting a steady 15% of its ethanol”
“At the moment, we have no pipeline for ethanol," admits Mr Desplechin”
“The industry is well aware of the potential security concerns that smart meters present. Their customers' security is a key priority”
“Mr Holland explained that the business is only four months old and said concurring with the demands of Harrods would cost him well over £10,000.”
“He said they received the letter from Harrods on 15 May, which told him that the sign and logo should be changed by the end of the month.”
“the business is only four months old”
“would cost him well over £10,000”
“they received the letter from Harrods on 15 May, which told him that the sign and logo should be changed by the end of the month”
“In 2008, it paid out 1.3 billion euros ($1.6bn) in penalties and fines as a result of US and German investigations into bribes to foreign officials between 2000 and 2006, making it the biggest scandal in corporate German history.”
“BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in April.”
“almost a third of the US oil supply and about a quarter of its natural gas, but it is prone to hurricanes - especially early in the season, which officially begins on 1 June.”
“but it is prone to hurricanes - especially early in the season, which officially begins on 1 June. Researchers lowered sensors to the ocean floor to measure the changes in underwater currents”
“The region provides almost a third of the US oil supply and about a quarter of its natural gas”
“He added police were already working across the organisation to find savings and make the best use of resources. Chief Constable Stephen Otter said the force had been preparing for funding cuts for some time and he had been open and upfron…”
“Hundreds of jobs were lost when the blast furnace was shut down A delegation of union leaders and MPs are due to attend talks with a firm in Thailand about bidding to buy Teesside Cast Products. National union officials said they were hope…”
