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Aggreko
Aggreko is a global supplier of mobile and modular power, temperature control equipment and energy services, headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland. The business was founded in 1962 and previously listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1997 to 2021. Aggreko was acquired by TDR Capital and I Squared Capital in August 2021. History Aggreko was founded in Netherlands, The Netherlands by Luc Koopmans in 1962. It moved to Scotland in 1973. In 1984, it was acquired by Christian Salvesen, Christian Salvesen plc, a Scottish transport and logistics company. In 1997, the business demerged from Christian Salvesen and then listed on the London Stock Exchange. In December 2001, its chief executive Chris Masters departed the business. He was succeeded by Phil Harrower who had worked his way up in the company from a junior salesman. Harrower was killed in a train collision in the USA where he was based in December 2002. In 2003, it appointed Rupert Soames as its new chief executive who served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Weston (businessman)
Christopher Weston (born 5 January 1964) is a British businessman. He is chief executive of Thames Water. Early life Weston was an officer in the Royal Horse Artillery for seven years and did a PhD in quantitative finance at Imperial College London after his time in the Army. Career During a civilian career with Centrica, Weston worked his way up to be managing director of its British Gas subsidiary. He became chief executive of Aggreko (based in Glasgow) in June 2014. It was announced on 19 November 2021 that he was leaving Aggreko. Thames Water announced that he would become chief executive in December 2023. Weston took up the position on 8 January 2024 and will be paid an annual salary of £850,000 and a performance-related bonus of up to 156 per cent, taking his total package to about £2.25 million. In December 2024, Weston defended executive bonuses at Thames Water at a time when the firm has £16 billion in debt and is calling for water bill increases to bail out the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Soames
Rupert Christopher Soames OBE (born 18 May 1959) is a British businessman. He is chair of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and was the chief executive of Serco from 2014 to 2023. He is a grandson of Winston Churchill, a nephew of one-time Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and his wife Diana Churchill, of journalist Randolph Churchill, and of actress and dancer Sarah Churchill. Early life and education Soames was born in Croydon, to Christopher and Mary Soames. He is a grandson of Winston Churchill, a nephew of one-time Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and his wife Diana Churchill, of journalist Randolph Churchill, and of actress and dancer Sarah Churchill, and is a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, the 1st Baron Baden-Powell and his wife, the Baroness Baden-Powell. Soames was educated at St Aubyns School in Rottingdean, East Sussex: in 2025 he revealed that he had been sexually abused by a master at the school. He continued to Eton College and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Younicos
Younicos was a German-American technology company that developed and sold energy storage systems and control software. The company integrated battery technologies, power electronics and control software to create systems that respond to the energy management requirements of power networks of all sizes, including micro-grids. Younicos had two primary facilities: Younicos AG in Berlin, Germany, and Younicos Inc. in Austin, Texas. It employed a total of about 130 people as of 2017. History The company was founded in Berlin, Germany, in 2005 under the name Solon Laboratories by executives of German solar manufacturer Solon. In 2009, Solon Laboratories merged with I-Sol Ventures GmbH and the company was renamed Younicos AG. In 2009, Younicos began operating a one-megawatt/6-megawatt-hour sodium-sulfur battery testing facility at its Berlin headquarters, which was the first of its size in Europe. In 2012, the company added a 200-kilowatt lithium-ion battery array and integrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Squared Capital
I Squared Capital is an American private equity firm focusing on global infrastructure investments. The company invests in energy, utilities, transport and telecom projects in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. As of November 2024, I Squared Capital controls more than $40 billion in assets under management. History I Squared Capital was founded in 2012 by former senior executives at Morgan Stanley, including Sadek Wahba, Adil Rahmathulla, and Gautam Bhandari. In 2015, the firm closed its first fund, ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund LP, with $3 billion in total commitments with investments from the Rhode Island State Investment Commission, the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, and Mitsubishi Corporation. As of June 2018, the firm's first fund had delivered 23 percent in gross annualized returns. Originally headquartered in New York, the firm relocated to Miami in 2018. In September 2018, I Squared Capital also announced the closing of its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund II aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Salvesen
Christian Salvesen was a Scottish whaling, transport and logistics company with a long and varied history, employing 13,000 staff and operating in seven countries in western Europe. In December 2007, it was acquired by France, French listed transport group Norbert Dentressangle. History Salve Christian Frederik Salvesen (1827–1911) was born in Mandal, Norway, Mandal, Vest-Agder, Norway. Christian Salvesen was the son of Norwegian merchant shipowner, Thomas Salvesen (1787–1853). In 1846, his older brother Johan Theodor Salvesen (1820–1865) had gone into the partnership of Turnbull, Salvesen and Company with George W. Turnbull and established an affiliate office in Leith near Edinburgh, Scotland. The oldest brother, Carl Emil Salvesen (1816–1877) also moved to Leith but his role in the company is unclear. Christian Salvesen joined the partnership after migrating from Mandal in 1851. He lived and operated from 20 Charlotte Street in Leith (now known as Queen Charlotte St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe, and comprises Wards of Glasgow, 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for finance, shopping, industry, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. In , it had an estimated population as a defined locality of . More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people (its defined functional urban area total was almost the same in 2020), around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chillers
A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid coolant via a vapor-compression, adsorption refrigeration, or absorption refrigeration cycles. This liquid can then be circulated through a heat exchanger to cool equipment, or another process stream (such as air or process water). As a necessary by-product, refrigeration creates waste heat that must be exhausted to ambience, or for greater efficiency, recovered for heating purposes. Vapor compression chillers may use any of a number of different types of compressors. Most common today are the hermetic scroll, semi-hermetic screw, or centrifugal compressors. The condensing side of the chiller can be either air or water cooled. Even when liquid cooled, the chiller is often cooled by an induced or forced draft cooling tower. Absorption and adsorption chillers require a heat source to function. Chilled water is used to cool and dehumidify air in mid- to large-size commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities. Water c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryder Cup
The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States, with hosting duties alternating between venues in Europe and the United States for each edition. The cup is named after the English businessman Samuel Ryder who donated the trophy and it is jointly administered by the PGA of America and Ryder Cup Europe, the latter a joint venture of the PGA European Tour (60%), the PGA of Great Britain and Ireland (20%), and the PGAs of Europe (20%). Initially contested between Great Britain and the United States, the first official Ryder Cup took place in the United States in 1927 at Worcester Country Club in Worcester, Massachusetts. The home team won the first five contests. Still, with the competition's resumption after the Second World War, repeated American dominance eventually led to a decision to extend the representation of "Great Britain and Ireland" to include continental Europe from 1979 onwards. The inclusion of continental Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Load Bank
A load bank is a piece of electrical test equipment used to simulate an electrical load, to test an electric electric power, power source without connecting it to its normal operating load. During testing, adjustment, calibration, or verification procedures, a load bank is connected to the output of a power source, such as an electric generator, Electric battery, battery, servoamplifier or photovoltaic system, in place of its usual load. The load bank presents the source with electrical characteristics similar to its standard operating load, while dissipating the Electricity, power output that would normally be consumed by it. The power is usually converted to heat by a heavy duty electrical resistor, resistor or bank of resistive heating elements in the device, and the heat removed by a forced air or water thermal management (electronics), cooling system. The device usually also includes instruments for metering, load control, and overload protection. Load banks can either b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has been held every four years since the 1930 FIFA World Cup, inaugural tournament in 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 due to the Second World War. The reigning champions are Argentina national football team, Argentina, who won their third title at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022 World Cup by defeating France national football team, France. The contest starts with the FIFA World Cup qualification, qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 32 teams compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over the course of about a month. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
