California the golden state: Known simply as 'the coast', California has become the primary destination for sunrise industries supported by massive venture capital spend
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California's economy has been reborn with the business emphasis moving from large defence firms to smaller, entrepreneurial high tech sector companies. There are more than 970,000 firms in the state, producing $1.1 trillion of goods and services each year. The state has benefited from being the US gateway to Asia, but is currently feeling the effects of the financial crisis there. California is committed to high tech industries, particularly information technology and biotechnology.
Publication Name: The Director
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0012-3242
Year: 1998
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Landing the best deal in Brussels: the 1994 joint venture between TI Group and Snecma Grou of France created a 250m pounds sterling business. Steering the merger through Brussels was crucial to its outcome
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Tony Sumner, is the director responsible for clearing the TI Groups' successful joint venture with Snecma Group of France, through the European authorities. The resulting company, Messieer Dowty, now dominates the European landing-gear business and is challenging top US manufacturers. The EC Directorate-General housing the merger task force DG IV, looks critically at expansion in some markets, so TI and Snecma emphasised the placing of their joint venture in the world market.
Publication Name: The Director
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0012-3242
Year: 1995
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Over-litigious, overbearing and over here: with American-style litigation encroaching on one side and an army of EU regulations entrenched on the other, British business runs the risk of emasculation at the joint hands of the US and Brussels
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The categories of potential litigation claims are widening in the UK, and the amounts of damages being sought are increasing. Also legislation from Brussels is encroaching on British business life. UK subsidiaries of US companies are particularly at risk, being subject to US jurisdiction, and directors are increasingly exposed to legal action over a wide area, from the Comapnies Act to the Insolvency Act.
Publication Name: The Director
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0012-3242
Year: 1995
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