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October 11, 2011
Merger of two US oil services providers

Superior Energy Services has announced an agreement to acquire Complete Production Services for $2.7 billion.

Superior Energy Services has announced an agreement to acquire Complete Production Services for $2.7 billion.

The boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement combining the two companies into a diversified mid-cap oilfield services company.

New Orleans, Louisiana-based Superior Energy Services was founded in 1989 as an oilfield products manufacturing company before branching out into services.

April 1, 2011
Licensed to thrill

New James Bond theme park to open in Maldives in summer 2011.

Regular readers of the Business Excellence magazines will be familiar with our coverage of exotic locations and luxurious hotel resorts. Indeed, we currently have a magazine issue on our home page dedicated to the genre, under the headline “the greatest of escapes”.

August 19, 2010
Supply chain: Risk management

It is tempting to think of supply chain risk in terms of a catastrophic and unpredictable event; but potential threats are often closer and more preventable than many people think, as Andrew Kinder explains.

It is tempting to think of supply chain risk in terms of a catastrophic and unpredictable event; but potential threats are often closer and more preventable than many people think, as Andrew Kinder explains.

 

Even without the recent turbulence in the capital markets, executive minds were already spinning with the relentless onslaught of events in the past year that have threatened to disrupt their continuity of supply.