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Toyota’s North American finance arm also plans to move its headquarters to this new shared campus. Operating units in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Altogether, these moves will affect approximately 4,000 employees. to its campus in York Township near Ann Arbor. Calty Design Research facilities. Toyota InfoTechnology Center.
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a Mexico-based investing and management company, are forming a new agricultural biotechnology company, Agradis. Agradis also announced the closing of a $20-million Series A financing round which will be used to establish the company infrastructure and to support product development and commercialization. (SGI) and Plenus, S.A.
billion) were all in the top 10 of investing countries while more than $1 billion was invested in Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Kenya and Turkey. There were seven billion-dollar-plus financings of offshore wind projects, boosting the investment totals for the Netherlands, the UK and Germany. billion set in 2011. billion), India ($7.4
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