S&N accepts Â£7.8bn takeover deal
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UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle agrees to be bought by Heineken and Carlsberg for Â£7.8bn.
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Shareholders in Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano approve the takeover of UK bank Abbey.
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_ Kidde PLC, the British fire and safety company, said Thursday it had agreed to a 1.4 billion pound ($2.8 billion) takeover by United Technologies Corp.
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Australia's Qantas Airways  agreed on Thursday to a sweetened $8.7 billion buyout offer from a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group in the world's biggest airline takeover.
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Utility firm AWG has said it had agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds (3.272 billion euros, 4.145 billion dollars) -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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Business & money: Heineken takes another step to becoming Britain's biggest beer group after Â£7.8bn bid is confirmed
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Triad Hospitals Inc.  agreed to accept a $4.7 billion takeover offer from two private equity buyers, including the investment unit of Goldman Sachs, amid pressure from a hedge fund to boost its stock performance.
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Shareholders in Marks &amp; Spencer yesterday voted overwhelmingly to accept the board&#39;s proposal for the largest tender offer made in Britain by a company for its own shares.
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Spanish bank Santander claimed victory for its 8.7 billion pound (&#36;15.6 billion) agreed takeover of Britain's Abbey National after its most likely rival, UK bank HBOS, pulled out of the race.
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Standard Chartered has won a bid for a controlling stake in Indonesia&#39;s seventh-largest bank for about $278 million (155 million pounds), the British bank&#39;s third attempt to buy an Indonesian financial institution, a source says.
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Two of the UK's largest life insurers, Friends Provident and Resolution, agree to merge in a deal worth Â£8bn.
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Shareholders of the company approved a $19.5 billion buyout on Tuesday, more than 10 months after the deal was proposed.
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Britainâs largest brewer, agreed to a Â£7.8 billion ($15.4 billion) takeover by the European rivals Carlsberg and Heineken.
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Spanish bank Santander claimed victory for its 8.7 billion pound ($15.6 billion) agreed takeover of Britain&#39;s Abbey National after its most likely rival, UK bank HBOS, pulled out of the race.
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BRUSSELS  - The European Union has cleared Banco Santander Central Hispano SA's acquisition of British rival Abbey National PLC.
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Peoplesoft agrees a $10.3bn takeover bid from rival business software firm Oracle, after an 18-month corporate battle.
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Scottish & Newcastle enters talks with Carlsberg and Heineken after an improved 800p-per-share bid proposal.