Metcash in bid for Aus Foodland
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Retail group Metoz Holdings on Monday announced that Metcash Australia had made an offer to buy out all the issued shares of Metoz at 2.65 rand a share.
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Business & money: Takeover battle looms after investment fund backed by government of Qatar confirms it is considering a Â£12bn bid for the supermarket chain.
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Foodland Associated Ltd., which owns supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand, said second-half profit rose 8 percent, boosted by sales of property to a real estate investment trust and reduced borrowing costs.
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IF Xstrata&#39;s Scotch CEO Mick Davis thought he could get WMC Resources on the cheap he now knows otherwise. The Swiss miner is offering $7.4 billion, or $6.35 a share, for Australia&#39;s third biggest resources company.
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Metcash Trading, Australia&#39;s largest grocery wholesaler, has made a surprise A$846m (US$661m) takeover bid for the local operations of Foodland Associated, the country&#39;s third largest
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Australian companies The Westfield Group and Multiplex, as well as the Reuben brothers said they will bid 585 million pounds ($1.
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Wholesale grocer Metcash Trading has announced that it intends to make an off-market takeover offer to acquire the entire issued share capital of Australian supermarket group Foodland Associated.
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German stock market operator Deutsche Boerse is offering to manage its derivatives business Eurex from London as a sweetener to convince the London Stock Exchange of the advantages of a merger, according to informed sources.
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PERENNIAL takeover target and suitor National Foods has identified SPC Ardmona as a merger partner in a deal that would add packaged fruit to its own dairy operations and build a major Australian food company.
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AUSTRALIAN companies could successfully trademark their &quot;feta&quot; cheese, &quot;kalamata&quot; olives and &quot;parma&quot; ham in the lucrative European food market after a significant win by Australia and the US at the World Trade Organisation.
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The region's biggest supermarket chain, Giant Food Inc., will launch a line of natural and organic foods this weekend in an effort to cash in on one of the supermarket industry's fastest-growing niches.
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FOODLAND Associated chief Trevor Coates has flagged an interest in buying Metcash Trading after revealing weak second-half earnings for the Australian business, as speculation about his own tenure continued.
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METCASH stunned long-term suitor Foodland (FOA) yesterday with an audacious $846 million takeover bid to create a supermarket heavyweight better able to compete with its bigger rivals.
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Australia's competition regulator will  not oppose Suncorp-Metway Ltd.'s  planned A$7.36  billion ($5.8 billion) takeover of rival Promina Group   to create the nation's second-biggest car and home insurer.
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Australia has had a win over the European Union in a case before the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO ruling stops Europe from insisting that other countries adopt its protection system for geographic names of food products.
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NATIONAL Foods hauled up the auction flag yesterday signalling that the Australian dairy giant could change hands for $1.81 billion.
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INDEPENDENT grocery wholesaler Metcash Trading has made a bold bid to become the third force in our supermarket scene behind Woolworths and Coles with a $846 million offer for Foodland yesterday.