following the break-up of the engine and transmission manufacturing partnership with GM, and now operates 26 factories in 12 countries. Teksid specializes in the production of metal automotive components,

It continued to supply engines and car chassis in return for branding in what became the Lotus F1 team, but instead began supplying engines to the Red Bull team. That relationship soured during 2014,

engine development, and ultimately also on the design of three small cars on a shared platform. As a by-product of that alliance, PSA suspended further sales of CKD vehicles to its Iranian customer. However

Branding agency Wolff Olins and ad agency WCRS worked with Hutchison to come up with an equally distinctive name for the product. Renamed Orange, the service enjoyed an extremely successful launch, supported

still Carrefour's engine house. In several international markets (such as Brazil and China), the group has begun closing down its supermarket outlets to concentrate on hypermarkets. Its international

Yet with no new Harry Potter movie to keep the engine stoked in 2003, sales collapsed, and the company experienced a disastrous shortfall in sales over Christmas 2003. At the same time it wholly failed

and mounted an ill-fated takeover of US search engine Lycos. Merged entity Terra Lycos had ambitions to be the world's most visited online destination, but persistently lagged far behind its American

installed sophisticated software in some of its diesel engines to cheat emissions tests, making its vehicles appear more environmentally friendly than was in fact the case. The repercussions of that scandal

the first Golf with TwinDrive petrol-electric hybrid engine in 2010. All VW's fuel-saving and emission-reducing technologies are now marketed under the BlueMotion Technologies umbrella. The group's best-

It was already the real engine of the group prior to acquisition, contributing almost two-thirds of Wella Group operating profits. It is the world's leading supplier of salon products. Core Wella sub-