Like other industrial groups, Wanxiang wants to increase its presence in developed markets, starting with A123.
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Some large industrial groups have long argued that the climate problem is real.
Sensing such a risk, Brazilian industrial groups nipped in the bud some recent discussions about a Brazil-China free-trade agreement.
One is the complicated web of cross-shareholdings that bind banks to insurers, industrial groups and other banks, especially in France and Germany.
In fact, Mr Yanukovich is sympathetic to large industrial groups and will guard their business interests more zealously than Ms Tymoshenko may have done.
China's Shanghai Composite slipped 0.1%, to a six-week low, after the country's National Bureau of Statistics indicated net income from China's largest industrial groups dropped 5.2% in the first two months of the year.
The graphene funding will be spread across 126 academic and industrial research groups.
During the first 30 months of the program, 126 academic and industrial research groups spread throughout 17 European countries will be coordinated by Chalmers University of Technology and have their collective pockets filled with an initial 54 million euro budget to kick things off.
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Clinton has done better in industrial states with large groups of blue-collar voters such as Ohio, which she won last week.
Interventionists once attributed Japan's success to industrial policy and to close relations between groups of firms and banks.
Japan, which has local police forces rather than a real national one and is hesitant, for historical reasons, about interfering with religious groups, may be the only industrial democracy where a sect like Aum Shinrikyo could have gathered so much destructive power.
The industrial logic converged with a cultural affinity between the two groups' top executives early this year, reflecting the easy relations that usually exist between Indian and British firms.
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Toshiba's ten major operational groups were pruned to just four: power and industrial systems, information equipment and consumer electronics, communication systems and electronic components and materials.
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