Fresenius Medical Care runs 3,513 dialysis clinics treating about 290,000 patients, and under Giza it finished a programme that took about €1.2 billion out of its cost base. The change comes with five days' notice…
The finance angle is cost: advisers are the largest expense in a wealth business, and HSBC is replacing most of them with digital service only three years after it set out to hire more than 100 wealth managers towards…
For Frasers the outlay is small, about $80 million, but it follows a pattern: the owner of Sports Direct takes holdings in brands it sells, which has in the past led to closer supply arrangements or, as with Hugo Boss…
Two costs rose at once for European companies: energy, with Brent back above $100, and borrowing, with French yields near 4.85% lifting the benchmark that banks, utilities and property companies in the euro area fund…
At Tuesday's value, a 10.2-point stake is worth about 3.5 billion euros, sold gradually into the market rather than in one block, which puts steady supply into the shares for the length of the plan. The bank itself…
Shareholders are being asked for new money and given a smaller payout at the same time, the reverse of what income investors hold a utility for. It shows how England's water upgrade is financed: the regulator allows…
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