Australian Publisher Proposes Merger
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The newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings is making an effort to become harder to swallow.
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Qantas Airways Ltd. ,  Australia's top airline, is expected to announce a takeover  offer of around A$10.9 billion (US$8.55 billion) from a  consortium led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  this week,  possibly as early as Wednesday, sources said.
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The proposed merger between Constellation and The Robert Mondavi Corp. has been finalised. The two companies yesterday (3 November) signed a definitive merger agreement in which Constellation will acquire
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Lachlan Murdoch, son of media tycoon  Rupert Murdoch, and Australian gaming magnate James Packer  launched a joint A$3.3 billion ($2.9 billion) offer on Monday  to buy out the Packer-backed publishing company Consolidated  Media Holdings.
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Australia said it was considering signing a new security agreement with Indonesia to replace a treaty between the countries that was scrapped when Canberra sent troops into East Timor in 1999.
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A merger with Biomet would be good in many ways. But what's the right price?
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By Bill Condie, Evening Standard, London  Feb. 16--The sale process for deeply-troubled IT provider iSoft could be  salvaged by an Australian bidder.
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Australia's APN News and Media   on Monday agreed to a revised A$2.8 billion ($2.2 billion)  offer from a consortium including Tony O'Reilly's Independent  News and Media Plc. .
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XM and Sirius feel the urge to merge.  What does the future hold for the former rivals?
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The conglomerate's pending breakup could unlock new-media value.
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Australia's competition regulator said on Friday it has started a review into an $8.7 billion buyout offer for Qantas Airways Ltd.  from a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group.
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AustraliaÂs national carrier, Qantas, said that it had been approached by Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group amid speculation of a takeover.
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Business & money: Punch Taverns confirms that it has approached rival Mitchells & Butlers with details of a merger
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Seeking to cut costs and encouraged by UK regulatory changes, Australia&#39;s QBE Insurance group Ltd. (QBE.AU) Tuesday said it will merge its Lloyd&#39;s division with other European operations.
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Shareholders in The News Corporation Ltd (publisher of The Australian) voted overwhelmingly to endorse the final act in five decades of expansion: to shift the company&#39;s domicile from the South Australian capital to the US state of Delaware.
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GLOBAL media giant News Corp succumbed to intense institutional pressure yesterday and agreed to retain its full foreign listing on the Australian Stock Exchange if shareholders approved the company&#39;s proposal to shift to the United States.
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NEWS Corporation would continue to grow its publishing business in Australia following the company&#39;s move to the US, chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch stressed yesterday.