Sentences with phrase «global arms companies»

The government's insistence on Australian industry involvement in projects can inflate costs but Dr Hellyer sees a bigger risk to competitive tension coming from consolidation in among global arms companies, reducing particular platforms down to one or two suppliers.

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Melnyk was an innovator in the field of building a company to utilize tax advantages: He personally moved to Barbados and set up many company operations there, including an arm that owned intellectual property and coordinated global R&D.

Listed real estate firm Agency Group Australia, formerly Ausnet Financial Services, has acquired three arms of struggling tech company Servtech Global Holdings for less than $ 1 million, while also announcing a $ 3 million capital raising.

That's the conclusion from a report published in August by Stratasys Direct Manufacturing (SSYS), the service arm of the global 3D - printer manufacturing company Stratasys.

Its global acquisitions included Minnesota - based Carlson Hotels, owner of the Radisson and Park Plaza Hotels; a 25 % stake in Hilton Worldwide Holdings; a 9.9 % stake in Deutsche Bank; the aircraft leasing arm of the New York financial firm CIT Group; and Ingram Micro, the Irvine - based company that is the world's largest distributor of technology products.

A spokeswoman for the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, endorsed member states» participation in the AIIB as a way of tackling global investment needs and as an opportunity for EU companies.

Bombardier and Siemens already know each other well, with the Canadian company's transportation unit based in Germany after the purchase of Daimler AG's Adtranz arm in 2001 made it a leading global player.

Mr. Robertson, president of Potomac Global Advisors, an international strategic and financial consultancy based in Washington, DC, announced that based on an internal market analysis, the U.S. arm of the company is prepared to invest as much as 50 million USD in the market, including 20 million USD in the first year.

Investment group DST Global, ride - hailing company Didi Chuxing and CITIC's private equity arm were among the investors, Reuters reported on March 1, citing a company statement.

BEIJING (AP)-- An American judge has ruled the China arms of global accounting firms should be barred from providing audits for U.S. - traded companies in a dispute that might force major corporate names such as oil giant PetroChina and search engine...

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The Houston - based Karbach Brewing Company, which was founded in 2011, confirmed it is partnering with the US arm of the global brewing giant, Anheuser - Busch, specifically its craft portfolio, The High End.

Flex Films is the global film manufacturing arm of India's largest multinational flexible packaging materials and solution company Uflex Limited.

The next - generation multi-media production company STUDIO RAMSAY has a joint venture with All3Media to develop and produce both unscripted and scripted television shows, creating new formats and innovative programming that includes a scripted arm focused on food - related themes, and development of new talent on a global front.

To move from isolated examples toward a fully generative economy, we may need a global movement of citizens, investors, and businesses, both profit and nonprofit, working together to create a pincer strategy — one arm aimed at reforming existing large companies, another aimed at promoting generative alternatives.

In the video, Nix is joined by his colleagues Max Turnbull, the managing director of CA Political Global (an arm of Cambridge Analytica), and the company's chief data officer, Alex Tayler.

Another firm prioritizing external visibility is the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and its global biologics R&D arm, MedImmune.

Last month, a group of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute, signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

Today, it is the American luxury arm of the global Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) company with a lineup that consists of the 300 and 200 sedans and the Town & Country minivan.

«Since 2001, Global Witness has exposed how Liberian logging companies actively organise and oversee the importation of arms for both the Liberian government and Liberian government - backed rebel groups in neighbouring countries (10),» says Blondel.

Despite years of denials, in April 2003 President Taylor's spokesperson Vaani Paasewe admitted in an interview that «it was true that, as Global Witness said in its report, revenues from Liberia's logging industry had been used to import weapons recently despite the UN arms embargo...» (1) Taylor referred to OTC as his «pepperbush» — a Liberian expression implying a personal interest, and a warning to people to leave the company alone.

As highlighted in recent letters to the United Nations by numerous international organisations (viii), the timber industry and shipping and corporate registries threaten both global environmental damage, and with regard to many Liberian timber companies, are actively engaged in financing human rights abusing militias and illegal arms transfers.

Recent UN Security Council resolutions have called on governments to take measures against those sourcing minerals from armed groups in eastern Congo, but so far member states have shied away from placing any companies or individuals under UN sanctions, despite abundant evidence published by the UN Group of Experts and Global Witness.

Global Witness's 2009 report showed that European and Asian companies, including Bangkok - based THAISARCO (a subsidiary of British metals group AMC), UK - based Afrimex, and Belgium - based Trademet bought minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that funded armed groups and fuelled conflict.

PHILADELPHIA — Nov. 15, 2017 — InOutsource, an industry - leading global legal consulting firm celebrating its 15th anniversary, today announced that Loeb & Loeb will work with the company to upgrade to FileTrail records management from ARM / FileSurf.

And in the US, InOutsource, an industry - leading global legal consulting firm celebrating its 15th anniversary, last week announced that Loeb & Loeb will work with the company to upgrade to FileTrail records management from ARM / FileSurf.

Global law firm Eversheds Sutherland has announced its adoption of legal AI company ThoughtRiver as part of its managed legal services arm, ES Ignite.

Loeb & Loeb Selects InOutsource to Implement FileTrail PHILADELPHIA — Nov. 15, 2017 — InOutsource, an industry - leading global legal consulting firm celebrating its 15th anniversary, today announced that Loeb & Loeb will work with the company to upgrade to FileTrail records management from ARM / FileSurf.

In order for your support of the UN Global Compact to have any credibility at all, your company must stop organising arms fairs such as DSEi and Helitech Latin America.

Global Atlantic was born of Goldman Sachs in 2004, and grew to host life insurance, annuities and reinsurance arms within its multi-faceted financial company.

Blockchain - based database provider Bluzelle today announced that it had received US$ 1M from NEO Global Capital, the investment arm of China's leading blockchain platform — cementing a strategic partnership between the companies.

Digital currency outfit Ripple Labs has closed a $ 28 million Series A funding round that includes IDG Capital Partners and the venture arms of CME Group and global data storage company Seagate Technology.

Wylie described Cambridge Analytica as just one arm of a global company, SCL Group, that gets most of its income from military contracts but is also a political gun - for - hire, often in countries where democratic institutions are weak.

While big, global corporations will no doubt offer schemes with a list of perks as long as your arm, don't ignore the smaller companies doing the same.

Ideal Companies: World Wildlife Foundation, Sergeant of Arms, White House, House of Representatives, Human Rights Campaign, Victory Fund, Global Giving, AARP, Kennedy Center

Teranet's parent company is Borealis, a global infrastructure investment manager and the infrastructure arm of the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System.