Ensco currently owns one ultra-deepwater semisubmersible and 43 jackups, which operate worldwide.
Molson Coors, which operates a worldwide network of over 100 brands, already had mechanisms in place for translating its values across multiple cultures.
Brambles said costs at CHEP, which operates a worldwide pool of 130 million pallets and containers, were rising as the company installed a new computer system, closed some pallet depots in the United States and started a plastic crate business.
The company, which operates 100 hotels worldwide, said full year profits came in at £157.7m, down from £184.7m and marginally below analyst expectations.
Luxottica, owner of LensCrafters, the largest optical retail chain in North America, is to pay $11.50 a share for Sunglass Hut, which operates 1,962 stores worldwide.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, which operates 450 hotels worldwide (Park Hyatt in the Maldives, below), and MGM Resorts International, which has 12 hotels in Las Vegas, will link loyalty programs starting this month.
"We get very little price resistance," said Simon F. Cooper, the president and chief operating officer of the Ritz-Carlton Hoperatespany, which operates 55 hotels worldwide and has entered a venture to open new five-star hotels branded with Bulgari, the Italian luxury jeweler.
Monster Worldwide, which operates the Monster.com job-search Web site, is returning to the roster of Super Bowl sponsors for the first time since 2004.
Monster Worldwide, which operates the popular Monster job-search Web site, said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire Emailjob.com, a French jobs-search Web site, from the British-Dutch publishing concern Reed Elsevier, for $26 million.
