1:46pm

Atlas Copco hits success seam in services

Equipment repairs is gold mine for Swedish industrial group

From LEX 3:24pm

BAE Systems: on the defensive

Europe’s biggest defence contractor is in search of post-merger failure strategy

SUPPORT SERVICES 2:30pm

Ferrovial buys Enterprise for £385m

Spanish group to merge services company with Amey

From WORLD 2:18pm

Mercedes-Benz fined over price fixing

Three UK dealers also admit breaching competition law

INDUSTRIAL GOODS 12:12pm

Schneider predicts increase in sales

Power equipment maker and bellwether bullish on 2013

A model of a BAE Systems Plc Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet sits on display outside the company's stand on the first day of the Farnborough International Air Show in Farnborough, UK on Monday, July 9 2012. ©Bloomberg AEROSPACE & DEFENCE 9:44am

BAE launches £1bn share buyback

Defence group’s pension fund buys longevity insurance from L&G

Franz von Holzhausen, chief designer at Tesla Motors, talks about the Tesla Model X ©AP AUTOMOBILES 1:56am

Tesla hits critical production milestone

Manufacture of new Model S vehicle ramped up

From RETAIL & CONSUMER 11:42pm

Travis Perkins sees construction improving

16% rise in pre-tax profit for owner of Wickes DIY chain

US Goodyear Tire & Rubber workers hold a banner reading ''no the closure of PSA in Aulnay'' as they demonstrate in front of the group's headquarters in France, in Rueil-Malmaison, a Paris suburb, on February 12, 2013, at the time of an extraordinary central works council on the plan to shut down Goodyear's plant in Amiens, northern France. "Closing the factory is the only option after five years of unsuccessful negotiations," said a French-language statement issued on January 31, 2013 by Goodyear Dunlop Tires France, which employs about 3,200 people in the country across four sites. AFP PHOTO PATRICK KOVARIK ©AFP From WORLD 10:29pm

US tyremaker drives over French pride

Titan boss says it would be ‘stupid’ to take over local factory

From GLOBAL ECONOMY 9:56pm

Toll Brothers earnings miss hits shares

US luxury homebuilder swings to profit but misses expectations

From LEX 8:36pm

Toll Brothers: building up hopes

Earnings miss is reminder that US housing recovery will suffer plenty of fits and starts

AEROSPACE & DEFENCE 8:13pm

Hurdles in way of further BAE/EADS tie-up effort

Some see link-up between groups as unfinished business

Feb 20, 2013

Rexam enjoys strong American performance

Sales of aluminium cans help offset decline in healthcare packaging

From LEX Feb 20, 2013

Lafarge: solidifying nicely

Cement company is doing well but may not be sector’s most attractive play

From LEX Feb 20, 2013

Akzo Nobel: painting by numbers

New strategy may not be ambitious enough to get group firing on all cylinders

Andrew Hill Feb 20, 2013

‘The Grizz’ rejects France’s bearhug

AEROSPACE & DEFENCE Feb 20, 2013

Boeing staff split over pay and pensions

Dispute could disrupt efforts to deal with Dreamliner crisis

AUTOMOBILES Feb 20, 2013

Geely and Volvo to share R&D centre

Carmakers to develop C-segment vehicles together

From MARKETS Feb 19, 2013

Indian iron ore sector faces torrid time

Country looks overseas for further supplies

CONSTRUCTION Feb 19, 2013

Ferrovial net profits take a hit

Weak domestic demand weighs on Spanish group

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