WPP wins 'Â£750m' US takeover bid
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UK advertising group WPP beats France's Havas to win a bidding war for US firm Grey Global which could cost as much as Â£750m.
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The UK's largest mortgage lender HBOS says profits will "comfortably exceed" expectations and announces plans to buy back up to Â£750m of shares.
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WPP yesterday scored a victory for the big-is-best approach to the advertising business by winning a â¬1bn (Â£700m) Unilever account ahead of two smaller rivals.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - British advertising company WPP  WPP.L on Sunday said it has won an auction for U.S. rival  Gray Global GREY.O, with what sources familiar with the  matter said was a cash-and-stock deal worth about 750 million  pounds ($1.34 billion).
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British advertising group WPP said over the weekend it would acquire rival Grey Global of the United States in a cash and stock deal worth 1.520 billion euros (1.246 billion dollars).
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In the latest of a flurry of deals among internet service providers, UK firm Claranet buys the UK operations of US business Via.Net Works for Â£7.3m.
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British advertising company WPP  said on Sunday it won an auction for U.S. rival Grey Global, with what sources familiar with the matter said was a cash-and-stock deal worth about &#36;1.34 billion.
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SOFTWARE company PeopleSoft has agreed to a sweetened Â£5.4 billion buy-out by rival Oracle, relenting after a bitter 18-month takeover saga.
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Yesterday, the European Commission, the regulatory arm of the European Union, approved your proposed $7.7 billion takeover bid of business software maker PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT).
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Britain's WPP Group Plc has offered to  pay more than $1.25 billion for advertising firm Gray Global  Group, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing an  unidentified person familiar with the matter.
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US regulators approve Google's $3.1bn  takeover of online advertising firm Doubleclick.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 25 -- US and UK regulators Tuesday confirmed a $150 million settlement with Royal Dutch/Shell Group that the company first disclosed last month.
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TOM ELLIOTT, MM&amp;E CAPITAL: Well, the bid that received the most attention was London-based Xstrata&#39;s offer to buy WMC Resources, the old Western Mining, at $6.
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Nasdaq, the US firm which tried to buy the London Stock Exchange, offers to take over a Swedish rival for $3.7bn.
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LONDON, England -- UK-based advertising giant WPP Group says it has won the bidding to acquire US agency Grey Global. WPP, the world&#39;s second-largest advertising company, said Sunday it had reached agreement
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India's Tata Steel  won a bid battle for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group   on Wednesday by agreeing to offer investors 608 pence per share in cash, or 5.75 billion pounds ($11.3 billion).
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UK fire equipment manufacturer Kidde agrees a Â£1.4bn takeover by US manufacturer United Technologies.