LeBoeuf (pronounced le-buff) did not exactly roll off the tongue, but Dewey was a name upon which you could build a world-class firm.
He aims to save €150m over five years, by rationalising supply chains and research and development activities among the various units.Bolshy unions and weak Italian governments have long stymied attempts to revamp Finmeccanica and turn it into a truly world-class firm.
India has produced a clutch of world-class firms in technology and pharmaceuticals, and its crusty conglomerates have been revived.
Much of what is left of its industry is in high-tech or research-based fields such as aerospace engines and pharmaceuticals, where its world-class firms are more than holding their own.
Foreign direct investment, apart from a couple of big bank takeovers, has fallen from 3.5% of GDP in 1994 to less than 2% a decade later.Mexico does have a handful of big world-class firms.
A sale or float of BP's American interests would leave one of our few world-class firms dismembered, an historic moment in declining British industrial prestige and power.
"I think we are totally capitalistic, but we just won't say so," says Laurence Parisot, the head of MEDEF.Don't mention the G-wordFrance's big world-class firms are as global as they come, striding into new markets from China to India and reaping record profits.
Both tournaments are world class and firm favourites with many.
Japan is the world's second biggest nation in terms of patent application filing, but which company is leading the race in the country that's home to world class tech firms like Sony, Toshiba and Thanko?
Scott Stanford is one of the legends in venture capital and I have the utmost admiration and respect and faith in his ability to continue to build Sherpa Capital into a world class venture capital firm. .
The bride's father is the founder and president of World Class Consulting Group, a firm in Newport Beach that consults to manufacturers.
