Cancer drugs have propelled Roche Holding AG's profit by more than 20 percent a year since 2004. To continue the pace, the Swiss company is racing to break into the fast expanding, $21 billion-a-year diabetes market.
For years, Northern Ireland was a byword for brutality and fear. But now, the tiny province is selling itself as a central, low-cost land of business opportunity, and investors are buying.
Adidas AG, the world's second-largest sporting-goods maker, reported a 32 percent increase in first-quarter profit after squeezing suppliers for cost reductions and opening stores under its own brand.
Samsung Heavy Industries Co, the world's second-biggest shipyard, said first-quarter profit climbed 29 percent after building vessels and offshore platforms at higher prices.
Oleg Boyko, the Russian billionaire who controls Eastern Europe's largest gaming company, said his businesses plan to raise $1.5 billion this year to fund expansion in gambling, retail and real estate.
High-tech gyms, free breakfasts, and programmes to help people lose weight or stop smoking: modern Swedish companies pamper their employees in a bid to combat one of Europe's highest absenteeism rates.
Automotive trends traditionally don't change nearly as fast as fashions in clothing or music.
Sprott Asset Management Inc's initial public offering this week will make a billionaire of the hedge fund company's founder, spurring speculation Canada's decade-old commodities boom is ending, investors say.
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