Sara Lee mulls $8.2bn disposals
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US consumer goods and food giant Sara Lee plans to either sell or spin-off businesses with annual sales worth $8.2bn (Â£4.4bn).
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The chief executive of Gold Fields, the South African gold producer, yesterday said he would urge the board to turn down an $8.1billion (Â£4.
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Austria's government and glitterati are in a quandary: Should next month's lavish Vienna Opera Ball be canceled out of respect for victims of the tsunami disaster? Or should the show go on, if only to help raise cash for survivors?
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Incurable romantic Stuart Conway has spent the last 10 years throwing messages in a bottle into the sea off Britain -- but now his local town council says it's time to recycle.
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A Lazard board meeting today could set in motion a $3.2bn (Â£1.8bn) stock market flotation of the 156-year-old investment bank. Bruce Wasserstein, the bank&#39;s chief executive, has been working to win support
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Stocks to watch Tuesday: SARA LEE CORP. :
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The cost of decommissioning ageing nuclear reactors has risen by Â£12bn in the past few years, according to an official report.
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The first S$700 million ($457 million) phase of Singapore's massive underground oil storage project will be completed in four years, a government minister said on Thursday, two years later than initially planned.
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Sara Lee Corp.  on Tuesday said  it has entered into an agreement to sell its European meats  business to Smithfield Foods Inc.  for &#36;575 million in  cash and the assumption of &#36;39 million in pension and other  liabilities.
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Sara Lee Corp. SLE.N on Monday stood   by its sales and earnings targets for the current fiscal year,   as it moves forward after a restructuring in which it sold or   spun off business that had accounted for about 40 percent of   its sales.
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Sara Lee Corp.  on Monday stood  by its sales and earnings targets for the current fiscal year,  as it moves forward after a restructuring in which it sold or  spun off business that had accounted for about 40 percent of  its sales.
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Christie's is eyeing to break its HK$1.2 billion ($154.2 million) Asia sales record next week when it auctions artworks and jewelry from a region that is all the rage with wealthy international and Chinese buyers.
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Sara Lee Corp.  on Thursday said it would spin off or sell businesses representing 40 percent of its revenue and promoted President Brenda Barnes to chief executive as it tries to jump-start sluggish profits.
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The trader accused of costing French bank Societe Generale $7.2 billion (3.7 billion pound) may yet carve out a new career for himself, judging by Thursday's bidding war for interviews with Nick Leeson, who brought down Barings.
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Business & money: Â£2.2bn stake in nuclear power generator to be used to help clean up the company's existing sites.
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IN simple and unambiguous terms, if Ziggy Switkowski continued as Telstra chief executive it was likely to cost the telco&#39;s 51.8 per cent shareholder between $3 billion and $6 billion.
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The first S$700 million ($457  million) phase of Singapore's massive underground oil storage  project will be completed in four years, a government minister  said on Thursday, two years later than initially planned.