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  • Commodity prices hit corporate spending – global capex down at least 10per cent dragged by sliding energy and mining sector

    The long slide of commodities prices is taking its toll on corporate spending, it seems: global expenditure is predicted to shrink by at least 10 per cent this year, according to new research from rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P). Spending is expected to continue falling well into next year, according to S&P’s forecast, before [...]

  • Royal Dutch Shell share price soars as it confirms 6,500 job cuts while £47bn takeover of BG Group “progresses well”

    Royal Dutch Shell's share price climbed this morning after confirming it is cutting 6,500 jobs while revealing a 35 per cent drop in profits for the three months to 30 June.  The figures The oil giant is struggling amid falling prices and heightened competition.    Profits were down more than a third to $3.4bn for [...]

  • Royal Dutch Shell expects to save “billions” through BG Group deal

    Royal Dutch Shell has told investors that the massive £55bn takeover of BG Group will produce “billions” in savings. Projected savings from cost reductions verifiable under takeover rules, such as merging headquarters, come to about £1bn, but the company has said that savings are actually likely to be a “multiple” of this, because of “value [...]

  • BG Group pre-tax profit plunges 62 per cent on plummeting oil prices

    May 8, 2015

    The figures BG Group said pre-tax profit plunged 62 per cent to $715m (£463m) in the first quarter, down from $1.9bn during the first quarter a year earlier. Total earnings were $233m,  including a post-tax loss of $332m on disposals, re-measurements and impairments in the first quarter of 2015. This was down from $1.1bn and included a post-tax loss [...]

  • Top PRs Roland Rudd and Sir Alan Parker brought together by Shell’s BG Group takeover

    April 9, 2015

    Rarely does one get the two titans of the financial PR world, Finsbury’s Roland Rudd and Brunswick’s Sir Alan Parker, in the same room – but that’s exactly what happened earlier this week in the prep meeting for Shell’s agreed £47bn takeover of BG Group. Observers say that Rudd stood up to shake his rival’s [...]

  • Helge Lund: The £28m BG Group man who missed his big day out in London

    April 8, 2015

    Oil giant Shell and its takeover target BG Group sent their top executives into the City yesterday to face questions over the proposed £47bn deal, a transaction that would create the largest company on the FTSE. However, one man was notable by his absence – BG’s chief executive Helge Lund, who was deemed so valuable [...]

  • BG Group boss Andrew Gould eager to quash rival bid speculation

    April 8, 2015

    BG Group chairman Andrew Gould yesterday refused to comment on rival bids that the firm might be considering, after speculation that Exxon could be preparing to make an approach. Gould said the BG board had assessed the Shell offer “very largely on the basis of what we felt was the ultimate potential of BG’s value”, [...]

  • BG Group chief executive Helge Lund may just have earned millions for two months’ work

    April 8, 2015

    After a brief two months at the helm of BG Group, its chief executive Helge Lund may be about to join – as the FT put it – "the ranks of history's footnote guys" – but it looks like he'll have last laugh. Back in December, two months before Lund was due to leave Norwegian giant [...]

  • Royal Dutch Shell BG Group deal: The 14 biggest M&A deals ever made

    April 8, 2015

    Royal Dutch Shell's takeover of BG Group for a pretty impressive price tag of £47bn makes it the 14th largest M&A deal in history. The latest deal may be big, but it doesn't even compare to the largest (though ultimately disastrous) merger of all time – AOL and Time Warner. The biggest deal ever made [...]

  • Royal Dutch Shell BG Group mega-merger: Are there more oil deals on the way?

    April 8, 2015

    Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell announced a takeover of gas producer BG Group today, in a deal worth £47bn. So is this the start of an oil mega-merger party? About 15 years ago low oil prices caused something similar. (Source: A.T. Kearney) Between 1998 and 1999, oil prices halved to just $10 per barrel, sparking a wave [...]

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