There are rumours in Seoul that Kim Woo Choong, the boss of the giant Daewoo group and one of those pardoned by the new amnesty, acted as some sort of special envoy during a recent visit he made to the North.
Her appointment may herald a further dip in the fortunes of Juan Villalonga, the mega-rich head of the giant Telefonica group, who has been relentlessly chastised by the opposition, especially in the election campaign, because it is said he benefited from his friendship with the prime minister.
The financial crisis that began in Asia in 1997 dealt a huge blow to the giant business group, or chaebol, to which Hyundai once belonged.
The giant insurance group, which owns 22% of Dresdner directly and sells insurance through its branches, is thought to hold sway over 40% of the bank's shares in all.
In addition to Ron Baron, two other Forbes 400 members addressed the crowd: David Rubenstein of private equity giant The Carlyle Group and Kevin Plank, founder and CEO of Baltimore-based Under Armour.
The American Medical Association, the giant doctors' group, believes pay-for-delay agreements undermine the balance between spurring innovation through patents and fostering competition through generics, AMA President Dr. Jeremy A., Lazarus said.
General Electric has said it would like to sell shares in China, but the American giant was not in the group of companies mentioned by the business paper.
The giant Mizuho financial group, for instance, which brings together the house banks of three keiretsu (corporate groups), contains plenty of affiliated life insurers and non-life companies, whose fate is still uncertain.
The idea to collect and analyze buying habits of grocery store customers came to LaValle and He while both worked brutal hours in the technology group for the investment giant Morgan Stanley in late 2009.
The latest buzz is that a Chinese consortium may step up with a higher bid, with the name of chemical giant Sinochem Group being mentioned as taking the lead on such a deal.
Chung Yong-Jin announced his resignation as vice-chairman of the board of retail giant Shinsegae Group in late February 2013, following investigations by the labor ministry into charges that the group was illegally monitoring employees to prevent them from joining a union.
David Lawee, head of the mergers and acquisitions group at the Internet search giant, says its fasting will end any day now.
Our Dec. 10 story on the Chinese shipping giant Cosco Group referred to a Hong Kong-listed unit, China Cosco Holdings.
But even as the fates of Lehman and Merrill hung in the balance, another crisis loomed as the insurance giant American International Group appeared to teeter.
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Meanwhile, shares of the giant insurer American International Group, or AIG, dropped again as investors questioned whether it would be able to come up with enough money to stay in business.
The brief (timed, not coincidentally, to help make President Obama look tough on BP going into the home stretch of the presidential race) was filed in U.S. District Court in Louisiana where BP is in the process of settling the civil damages case brought by a giant group of fishermen, hoteliers and citizens damaged by the spill.
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It will work alongside the giant Spain-based construction group FCC Construccion, whose work on racing tracks includes the Circuito de Jerez, in Cadiz.
As CarMax was struggling, along came AutoNation, the giant new-car dealership group, with a plan to compete with CarMax head-to-head in used cars.
On September 29th Jamie Dimon reshuffled his generals, ousting Bill Winters, co-head of the group's giant investment bank, and replacing him with Jes Staley, formerly head of the asset-management business.
Likewise, 46% of the 401(k) plans administered by fund giant Vanguard Group offered a Roth option by the end of 2011, and only 9% of participants who had access to a Roth 401(k) were using it.
Though the company has lost several patent suits aimed at halting production of those pods, Chief Executive Jean-Marc Duvoisin says the competition is a positive for Nespresso, which represents roughly 5% of the Swiss food giant's group sales.
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By insisting that an auction is the only fair way to allocate spectrum, the Supreme Court has cast into question other licences granted before 2009 by different means, including those of Reliance Communications and the Tata group, two giant firms.
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To delve into this a little bit, I decided to go to SciVal Analytics, a consulting group at the giant publisher Elsevier that has access to a database called Scopus, which contains more than 18, 000 scientific journals just about the entire scientific publishing universe.
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Trying to build a car cheap enough for motorcycle buyers seems to make sense now but seemed crazy several years ago when Ratan Tata, longtime chairman of Tata Motors and scion of the nation's giant Tata Group conglomerate, first mentioned his dream of building a one-lakh car in 2003.
During the defence giant's merger negotiations with the Franco-German aerospace group, Invesco said it would vote against the proposal.
One of the bright spots for the chip giant was its Data Center Group, which continues to grow at a steady pace, with revenues up 7 percent sequentially and 4 percent year over year.
The text messages had referred to the bank's losses through exposure to American International Group (AIG), the global insurance giant that was in effect taken over by the American government on September 16th, and Lehman Brothers, the Wall Street bank that collapsed a day earlier.
Now, there is even more anger in Germany over French attempts to stop Siemens, the German industrial giant, buying parts of Alstom, the near-bankrupt French engineering group.
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