Aug 7, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, Western Europe
BBC News A Coventry manufacturing firm has been bought for £30m by a partnership between a Chinese automotive supplier and a Shropshire company. Covpress, in Canley, makes body panels for the likes of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and employs more than 450 people. Shandong...
Aug 7, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, North America
Bloomberg Hanergy Holding Group Ltd., the Chinese clean-power producer, acquired the U.S. photovoltaic manufacturer Global Solar Energy Inc. for an undisclosed amount, its third purchase in a year of a thin-film panel maker. Global Solar joins Miasole Inc., which...
Aug 7, 2013 | China, East Asia, News
Bloomberg 07 Aug. 2013 Yue Xiu Group, a trading arm of China’s Guangzhou city government, is considering a bid for Hong Kong family-run lender Chong Hing Bank Ltd., according to a person familiar with the matter. While talks are at an early stage, Yue Xiu is arranging...
Aug 6, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, North America
Bloomberg Shanghai Greenland Group Co., the developer building one of China’s tallest towers, is investing $1 billion in a downtown Los Angeles project, the latest Chinese builder to venture overseas. Shanghai Greenland signed an agreement to acquire a stake in the...
Aug 6, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, Southeast Asia
Straits Times A subsidiary of Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation (Keppel T&T) has agreed to buy a 60 per cent stake in Foshan Sanshui Port Development Co, a Chinese company engaged in the development and operations of a port in Sanshui District in...
Aug 6, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, Western Europe
Bloomberg Croda International Plc, the world’s second-largest maker of cosmetic ingredients, agreed to buy a Chinese maker of fatty-acid products for 38.2 million pounds ($58.8 million) to tap growing demand for lubricant additives for cars. The U.K. supplier of...
