11.   In addition, the group will invest in the design and manufacture of factory automation equipment and distribution of personal computers.

12.   The group also is investing in plants in Azerbaijan and Southern Russia.

13.   He told reporters that in the coming year the group would invest heavily in petrochemicals, one of the fastest growing industries in Thailand.

14.   Chairman Sir Richard Greenbury has that the group would invest more than one billion pounds during the next three years to develop its stores in Britain and abroad.

15.   Despite this, the group will invest more than three billion dollars on research and development in the next three years, it said.

16.   The spokesman declined to say how much the group would be investing in such a move nor how many outlets the new unit would operate.

17.   The group would also invest a few billion marks in chemical complexes in the port of Mangalore in India and in another country in the region.