
SWEDEN— According to Dagens Industri, The Wallenberg Family has cashed in on its previous investment into 24 state-owned Apoteket pharmacies for SEK 600 million after purchasing them for SEK 225 million. The venture capital company Investor Growth Capital, owned by Investor AB, a Swedish investment company largely controlled by the Swedish Wallenberg family, purchashed the [...]

DETROIT – Woodlawn Post participated in the General Motors conference with Kurt McNeil(vice president of U.S. sales operations) to review GM’s April 2013 U.S. sales results. “We’re Very Optimistic,“ Kurt McNeil(vice president of U.S. sales operations) said about GM U.S. Sales being up 11% and more. Cadillac was the industry’s fastest-growing brand in Q1 2013 and Cadillac [...]

VANCOUVER - Woodlawn Post participated in the Goldcorp Conference Call with Chuck Jeannes(President & CEO). Gold sales in Q1 2013 were 595,100 ounces on production of 614,600 ounces. This compares to sales of 545,700 ounces on production of 524,700 ounces in the Q1 of 2012. Silver production in Q1 2013 totaled 5.6 million ounces compared to silver [...]

(Woodlawn Post )Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 Q2 ended March 30, 2013 and the company will focus on re-distributing 100 billion in Apple accumulated cash through Company share repurchases and increasing the dividend by 15% to investors seeking yield by 2015. Apple earned the #1 spot in Japan for an entire calendar year in [...]

SWEDEN—- Peab has refinanced existing credit agreements totaling SEK 5.4 billion maturing in May and September 2014 with a new credit facility of SEK 5.0 billion maturing on 1 September 2016. The transaction involves five banks, and all five of them were granting banks of the credit facilities which have been refinanced. The [...]

DETROIT – General Motors sold 245,950 vehicles in the United States in March, up 6 percent compared with a year ago. Retail sales increased 4 percent, fleet sales were up 12 percent and the fleet mix was 27 percent of total sales. “GM delivered its best March sales in five years thanks to a strengthening economy and new products” [...]
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DENVER - Newmont is one of the world’s largest gold producers and is the only gold company included in the S&P 500 Index and Fortune 500. Newmont’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.425 per share of common stock, payable on March 28, 2013, to holders of record at the close of business on March 13, 2013. The company reported [...]

FLORIDA– Office Depot Inc will acquire smaller rival OfficeMax Inc in a $976 million all-stock deal, the companies said on Wednesday, confirming an agreement inadvertently announced earlier in the day, before it was completed. “Clearly, you can’t make this deal work unless you close a bunch of stores,” he said. “Store rationalization is long overdue, [...]

DETROIT– Two Harvard-educated venture capitalists abandon Silicon Valley and head home to Detroit, with hopes of finding new opportunity and capital to grow a business in a city that is on the radar of international investors & destined for growth. (Reuters) twitter@andrwmitch34 twitter@woodlawnpost

De Beers expects moderate growth in diamond jewellery demand in 2013. Anglo American believe’s that this will be supported primarily by a more positive picture emerging from China and India compared to 2012. In November 2011, Anglo American agreed to acquire the Oppenheimer family’s 40% interest in De Beers. In August 2012, Anglo American completed the [...]