Converting aspirations into hard, profitable sales is the challenge, particularly at a time when global economic uncertainty is putting budgets under strain

Europe's steelmakers, like their iron ore suppliers, have been hit hard by the crisis. ThyssenKrupp is fighting back.

Completion of deal makes the Thai group F&N's biggest shareholder, adding to pressure on Heineken in bid battle for APB

British subsidiary that supplies communications and surveillance equipment now subject of a criminal probe by the UK's SFO

Oil group remains exposed to Gulf of Mexico liabilities, while TNK-BP stake sale is a reminder of how badly its Arctic ambitions have come unstuck

Iraq has told oil company it must sell minority stake in Halfaya oilfield unless it cancels acquisition of stakes in Kurdish-controlled licences

Chief executive says deal marks a career-defining opportunity to push ahead in a market where scale is becoming the name of the game

Electrical retailer, formerly called Kesa, to work with activist investor on strategy, with its chairman leaving early to appease fund

Many currency investors are negative on the pound, arguing that Britain's sluggish economy and loose monetary policy make it unattractive

An IPO is possible for the uranium enrichment group that is owned by the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, but any sale will be highly sensitive

Russia's energy industry has been through two great rounds of changes since the collapse of communism. Now it is entering its third

Carlyle Group is to acquire Los Angeles-based asset manager TCW from French bank Société Générale for an undisclosed sum