Organisation: Koch Industries

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business

Novartis and Molex cuts may be tip of iceberg

The decisions by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis to shed 320 of the 550 jobs at its Cork campus over the next three years and by Koch Industries to close its Molex manufacturing facility in Shannon, with the loss of 500 jobs, may be the tip of the manufacturing industry closures’ iceberg in Ireland.

comment-analysis

Republicans have the cash — but the cast is ever-changing

comment-analysis

‘No dough, no go’ for presidential hopefuls

world

Gates tops Forbes US rich list with $72bn

business

Bill Gates still America's richest person

news

Mexican telecoms chief top of world rich list

Chavez orders takeover of Smurfit Kappa lands

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez ordered the removal of Irish cardboard maker Smurfit Kappa Group Plc from all its farm land in an agricultural state as he deepens a push to seize large land holdings from private owners.

Fri, 02 Sep, 2011

That’s rich: No recession for world’s billionaires

THINGS are on the up for US billionaires with more than half of them adding to their net worth in a year which once again saw Bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said.

Fri, 24 Sep, 2010

Anna Nicole Smith dies after hotel collapse

Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marriage to an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died today after collapsing at a Florida hotel, her lawyer said.

Thu, 08 Feb, 2007

DuPont to cut costs by billions

Number two US chemical maker, DuPont, said it is planning to announce layoffs on April 27, 2004, the day it releases its fourth-quarter results, as part of an overall plan to trim $900m (€749.53m) in costs by 2005.

Mon, 01 Dec, 2003