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The French will now be in charge of running facilities at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London and hundreds of UK schools and hospitals after Balfour Beatty sold its UK facilities management unit WorkPlace to GDF Suez for £190m. GDF looks to have secured a bargain; the business was expected to fetch £250m.
Call to help Co-op bondholders
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WPP buys a Brazilian brand
Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP has bought a Brazilian brand consultancy to boost its presence in Latin America. The advertising giant said its subsidiary Millward Brown bought a majority stake in BrandAnalytics Consultoria to increase its exposure to fast-growing markets.
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