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Industry’s Most Exciting Space: Untold Billions Showered on Battery and Electric Vehicle Technology and Production
Earlier this week, the first lithium-ion battery cell rolled off the assembly line of Europe’s newest so-called gigafactory – a novel phenomenon usually defined as a manufacturing plant capable of churning out at least 15 gigawatt hours of cumulative battery
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Sunny Misser: A Visionary in the New Business Environment
When Sunil (Sunny) Misser joined AccountAbility to become its CEO, it was with the aim of filling a gap in the market that he had identified – the “one-stop shop for all things Sustainability”. His background working all over the
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Right Place, Right Time, Right Attitude: Dutch Firm, Orange Capital Partners Plays Its Cards with Skill
Since its first acquisition in 2014, Amsterdam-based Orange Capital Partners (OCP) has been on a roll. Set up by two former Goldman Sachs executives, Victor van Bommel (founder and CEO) and Hedde Reitsma (CIO) the company employs 55 people at
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Meet the Orange Capital Partners Team
Orange Capital Partners founder and CEO Victor van Bommel is responsible for day-to-day management, strategic direction, and capital-raising. He chairs investment committees and leverages relationships to source investment transactions. He has been instrumental in raising the Orange Capital Partners investment
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Former Student Protest Leader Claims Presidency in Chile
A land of geographical and political extremes, Chile seems to have rejected moderation and elevated a former student protest leader to the presidency. However, the electorate did so reluctantly as it faced an almost impossible choice between a right-wing apologist
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EY Argentina: Argentina’s Promotional Tax System for Knowledge-based Companies is Gaining Ground in the Local Market
After more than two years of the enactment of the “knowledge-based” Law, time has come to ask whether this new promotional system have truly improved the capacity of the knowledge-based industries to generate employment, federal economic development, and foreign exchange
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Decarbonisation and “Greenflation”
Accelerating the transition toward low or net-zero carbon emissions is necessary to keep global warming at theoretically safe levels. That will likely bring price shocks associated with rising metal prices, energy costs, and carbon taxes – what has been called
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Right On Track: MTR Rail Empire Weathers the Pandemic in Style with Innovative Business Model
As public transport operators around the world battle sharp declines in patronage and revenues during the pandemic, MTR Corporation’s diversified “Rail plus Property” (R+P) business model is paying dividends. A long-term vision has enabled the company to maintain its solid
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MTR Corporation Finance Director Herbert Hui: Cool Head and Strong Hand at the MTR Tiller
With diverse revenue streams, including fare- and non-fare revenues from its property business, MTR has been able to ride out challenging economic cycles since its first railway line opened in 1979. The integrated Rail plus Property (R+P) business model, in
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Denise Coates Earns More Than Elon Musk, Would You Believe?
British business leader Denise Coates is the highest-earning woman in Britain — testament to the fact that the odds can sometimes be beaten. Easily able to pass unnoticed in public, Denise Coates’s net worth was recently estimated to be $5.3bn,
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