Swedish energy company Vattenfall launches bid for Danish rival
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Sweden's leading power supplier Vattenfall issued a bid for Danish energy market leader Elsam, offering 1,250 kroner (220 dollars, 168 euros) in cash for each share in the company.
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French advertising group Havas said last night it would bid for US rival Grey Global, joining expected bids from the UK&#39;s WPP and an American buyout firm.
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The retail unit of Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa launched a bid to take over troubled French toiletries retailer Marionnaud in a 900-million-euro deal that could create the biggest company in the sector.
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Scania SCVb.ST Chief Executive Leif   Ostling met institutional shareholders this week to discuss   MAN's MANG.DE 9.6 billion euro ($12.2 billion) bid, the   Swedish truckmaker said on Wednesday.
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Archipelago Holdings, US owner of ArcaEx, the world's largest electronic stock market, is leading the race to buy Instinet, an electronic brokerage owned by the British news and information giant Reuters.
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French-Dutch airline Air France KLM  is planning to team up with two Spanish firms to bid for Spain's Iberia  against a group led by private equity group TPG, Expansion newspaper said on Wednesday.
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A European consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland launched a record-breaking bid for ABN Amro worth almost 100 billion dollars on Tuesday, challenging an agreed takeover from rival bank Barclays.
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With EU membership bringing new openings for investment in Hungary, Swedish firms are particularly eyeing opportunities in the food industry, auto parts supply, and the provision of renewable energy sources.
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After a two-month search for a buyer, the National Australia Bank announced Tuesday that the Danske Bank Group of Denmark, one of Scandinavia&#39;s largest banks, would acquire
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Denmark is to undertake an expedition to try to back its bid for the North Pole, the country's Science Ministry says.
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A three-bank consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday launched an rival bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro, already the target of a friendly takeover bid by Barclays.
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Germany's MAN AG is preparing a more   attractive offer for Swedish truck maker Scania, the Wall   Street Journal on Friday quoted MAN Chief Executive Hakan   Samuelsson as saying.
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Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto launched a 38.1-billion-dollar offer for Canada&#39;s Alcan on Thursday, trumping US rival Alcoa in a mammoth bid to create the world&#39;s largest aluminium company.
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ZAGREB, Croatia Iceland-based Actavis Group HF filed a new offer to take over Croatian drug maker Pliva on Thursday, topping an earlier bid from the rival U.S.-based Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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German industrial conglomerate MAN is hoping its planned takeover bid for Swedish truck maker Scania can remain amicable and has invited Scania to enter into friendly talks.
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Euronext, the Paris-based stock exchange, yesterday confirmed its intention to enter the race to buy the London Stock Exchange, opening the way for a bidding war after last week&#39;s indicative offer from Frankfurt&#39;s Deutsche BÃ¶rse.
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Ericsson, the world's leading supplier of mobile telecommunication networks, bid on Monday for Norway's Tandberg Television to beef up its service to operators who want to broadcast television via the Internet.