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January 30, 2012
Technip Asia Pacific

With a number of new subsea oil and gas mega-projects on the horizon in the Asia Pacific region, Technip is gearing up for growth. Hallvard Hasselknippe, COO of Technip’s Asia Pacific Subsea Division, talks to Gay Sutton.

With a number of new subsea oil and gas mega-projects on the horizon in the Asia Pacific region, Technip is gearing up for growth. Hallvard Hasselknippe, COO of Technip’s Asia Pacific Subsea Division, talks to Gay Sutton about building people, assets and technology.

November 25, 2011
Dialog Axiata

As Jeff Daniel learns, the very latest telecommunications technology isn’t necessarily found in Western countries.

As Jeff Daniel learns, the very latest telecommunications technology isn’t necessarily found in Western countries.

 

It’s not so long ago that travellers from the West, wanting to make a phone call back home from some less developed country in the world, could be left tearing their hair out in frustration. Back street booths, poor quality and unreliable connections were commonplace and were easily disparaged as examples of lack of technological development.

November 25, 2011
Otto Energy

Otto Energy has been producing oil from its assets in the Philippines for the last three years, and has fantastic prospects going forward: it is all about balance, say its senior executives.

Otto Energy has been producing oil from its assets in the Philippines for the last three years, and has fantastic prospects going forward: it is all about balance, say its senior executives.

 

November 25, 2011
Telekom Malaysia

Bazlan Osman, group chief financial officer of Telekom Malaysia, talks to Jayne Alverca about the company’s achievements and challenges in one of the world’s most competitive markets.

Bazlan Osman, group chief financial officer of Telekom Malaysia, talks to Jayne Alverca about the company’s achievements and challenges in one of the world’s most competitive markets.

 

2011 has been an excellent year for Telekom Malaysia (TM). Despite fierce competition, the company has continued to attract new customers and maintained its leadership position in the broadband segment with 1.7 million customers in June 2011, showing growth of almost 12 per cent over the previous year. 

December 14, 2010
Yule Catto snaps up rival for €443 million

UK chemicals company Yule Catto has agreed to acquire its German rival PolymerLatex for €443 million (£376 million).

UK chemicals company Yule Catto has agreed to acquire its German rival PolymerLatex for €443 million (£376 million).

PolymerLatex, which makes a range of rubber-based products similar to Harrow-based Yule Catto’s, is currently owned by private equity house TowerBrook Capital Partners.

Under TowerBrook’s ownership, the company built a €60 million plant in Malaysia and created a new R&D facility near Dusseldorf, Germany.

October 27, 2010
Avocet Mining Plc

A major shift in strategy is now seeing this company adjusting its focus from South East Asia to West Africa, as Andrew Pelis discovers.

The saying “Go West, young man” has been a part of our language for over 150 years; and while its origins may have referred to America’s growing empire, the idea has been followed to the letter by one gold mining company, as Andrew Pelis discovers.

 

 

 

 

September 2, 2010
Retailers bid for Carrefour assets

Retailers from Europe and Asia are in an auction battle for the south-east Asian assets of the French supermarket chain Carrefour.

Retailers from Europe and Asia are in an auction battle for the south-east Asian assets of the French supermarket chain Carrefour.

The French company put the stores on the market after a strategic decision to withdraw from Asian countries where it stood no chance of becoming market leader.

The portfolio consists of 40 supermarkets in Thailand, 19 in Malaysia and two in Singapore; and is expected to fetch around €780 million.

August 16, 2010
Vedanta agrees Cairn stake

India’s Vedanta Resources has said it will acquire a 51 to 60 per cent stake in Cairn Energy’s Indian unit for between £5.4 billion to £6.1 billion.

India’s Vedanta Resources has said it will acquire a 51 to 60 per cent stake in Cairn Energy’s Indian unit for between £5.4 billion to £6.1 billion.

The move represents Vedanta's first foray into oil and gas, and will help Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy fund a drilling programme in Greenland.

Cairn India operates the country’s largest onshore oil field, and has a market value of approximately £8.6 billion.

August 7, 2010
Technip Oceania

Thanks to a boom in Australian oil and gas exploration and development, this company is positively thriving, as Gay Sutton finds out.

Australia is enjoying a boom in oil and gas exploration and development. Frans Roozendaal, managing director of Technip Oceania, tells Gay Sutton how the company is thriving in this increasingly competitive environment, and responding to the challenges it presents.

 

 

 

 

August 1, 2009
Cluff Gold

Success driven
Many of the world’s gold-rich locations have long-since been found and mined but there’s still rewards to be had for entrepreneurs who are willing to take chances, as Alan Swaby learns.
Cluff Gold chairman Algy Cluff is a colourful figure in the best boys’ own tradition. After all, he’s spent a lifetime taking risks and proving that fortunes can be made in the most challenging of situations.

March 24, 2009
Technip Claremont

Cracking on A year after our first article on Technip Claremont, Martin Ashcroft finds Jeroen Snijder, vice president of operations, very happy about the company’s growth, its ventures into new technologies and the consolidation of its reputation for safety. Since I first spoke to Jeroen Snijder, vice president of operations for Technip Claremont, the company has enjoyed a period of solid growth. “We’ve almost reached 500 employees now,” says Snijder. “I think when we talked a year ago it was around 450, so I’m very happy about that.”