The retraction is a setback for the Chicago-based company, which has already had rejections for three offers for Shire, which is registered in Jersey and headquartered in Dublin.
1980: Nadir acquires a controlling interest in Polly Peck International, then an East End rag trade business, which he grows into a large, stock market-listed conglomerate headquartered in Berkeley Square, Mayfair.
We once had the Inquisition here (in fact, it was headquartered very near to where I live).
Next year Eurotunnel, which is headquartered in Paris, may begin to pay French corporate-profits taxes.Even now, the tunnel is operating at only a bit over half of its capacity.
The founding family's controlling shareholding, and a blocking stake held by the state of Lower Saxony, where VW is headquartered, allow it to resist short-term pressures to pull out of any market that turns difficult.
All insist that the quality of their workers is as good as in their western plants.In Dresden, it is hoped that a high-tech cluster will form around two firms that specialise in semiconductors: Infineon, a spin-off from Siemens, and AMD, an American outfit headquartered in California's Silicon Valley.
On November 14th, the shareholders of South Africa's largest financial firm, now listed and headquartered in London, gave their approval to the SKr45.5 billion ($5.5 billion) cash-and-shares bid.
But in another crime-ridden part of town, Edison, not far from the city centre, one of Mexico's most ubiquitous firms, the convenience-store chain Oxxo (a part of the bottling conglomerate Femsa) is making its own efforts to improve the neighbourhood where it is headquartered, with little support from the state or local government.
Vox Media, which is behind a string of media projects including the forthcoming venture from Mr Klein and which is headquartered in Washington, has an office in New York, as do other new media firms like Gawker Media.
Armani says that the management company for its hotel venture will be headquartered in Milan rather than Dubai, and that Mr Armani will be fully in charge of design.
