How about a buyout offer from, say, the French conglomerate Schneider Electric S.A., owner of U.S. electrical-equipment maker Square D?
The outcome of the Schneider Electric case should also increase the amount of time that the Commission spends investigating mergers and companies in the future.
The roll-up of energy-efficiency start-up companies by large energy services companies like Schneider Electric is largely resulting from the structure of the market more than anything else.
Schneider Electric created its own internal metrics back in 2005.
Schneider Electric and Johnson Controls to start-ups like BuildingIQ and JouleX are scrambling to take advantage of this convergence by developing integrated building information, management and controls platforms.
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Ron Ashkenas l ooked at Schneider Electric, of Paris, to see how to avoid a problem many companies face as they grow, getting dangerously too big to fail, or at least too complex to succeed.
Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
On Wednesday the Commission was ordered by the EU's second-highest court to pay losses to French electrical equipment maker Schneider Electric, on the grounds that it had wrongfully refused to let the company buy rival compatriot, Legrand Holdings in 2001.
On Wednesday the Commission was ordered by the EU's second-highest court to pay losses to French electrical equipment maker Schneider Electric (other-otc: SBGSF - news - people ), on the grounds that it had wrongfully refused to let the company buy rival compatriot, Legrand Holdings (other-otc: LGROF - news - people ) in 2001.
Among the globally-exposed stocks that UBS says look cheap relative to their sector are embattled oil giant BP, which is struggling to contain the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, drug-makers Sanofi-Aventis and Novartis, media and advertising companies Pearson and WPP, tobacco concern BAT, metals and mining giants, ArcelorMittal, Rio Tinto and Anglo American, financial firms ING and Aegon, capital goods companies Philips and Schneider Electric and energy company Repsol.
Schneider acknowledges the Smart Car fiasco hurt the company's credibility, but he swears electric vehicles are closer than we think.
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