Takeover threat as Qataris raise Sainsbury stake
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Business & money: Â· Shares hit record high after Â£732m market raidÂ· Emirate royal family is now biggest shareholder
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Asda, the British grocer of Wal-Mart  Stores Inc., could counterbid for J. Sainsbury  should  a private equity consortium launch an offer for Britain's  number three supermarket owner, Citigroup analysts believe.
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Sainsbury's is approached by a Middle Eastern investment fund about a possible takeover worth some Â£12bn.
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Private equity firm Texas Pacific Group  is considering a bid for J. Sainsbury  and is working on building a consortium, the Financial Times reported.
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Representatives of the Qatari Investment  Authority have indicated a willingness to pay as much as 15  pounds a share for Nasdaq&#39;s  31 percent stake in the  London Stock Exchange  the Sunday Times newspaper said.
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Shares in Sainsbury&#39;s have risen more than 3 percent to a five-week high as investors digested reports of a possible 8 billion pound plus bid for the supermarket chain.
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Gulf Arab state Qatar has made a bid approach for J Sainsbury Plc, which newspapers said valued Britain's third-biggest supermarket group at about 12 billion pounds ($24.5 billion), including debt.
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London equities continued to make gains in opening trade on Friday, after news of take building in J Sainsbury lit up the retail sector.
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J Sainsbury Plc , Britain's third-biggest supermarket group, confirmed it had received a preliminary bid approach from Qatari investment group Delta Two.
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Sainsbury's suitor Delta Two agrees to raise an extra Â£500m to increase the cash element of its bid.
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The royal family of Qatar is considering a full takeover offer for supermarket J Sainsbury, a report says.
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J Sainsbury will take a Â£550 million ($991 million) hit to profits this year as it invests to boost sales and reverse falling market share, Britain&#39;s third-biggest supermarket chain said Tuesday.
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Supermarkets group J Sainsbury faces fresh takeover speculation today after it emerged that dealmaker George Magan might try to raise financing for an offer.
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Shares in J Sainsbury, the supermarkets group, have been surging all week on renewed bid speculation. Yet I think the company has to be believed when it insists that there have been no approaches, nor would
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A Qatari investment fund, the Delta Fund, said it was talking with J Sainsbury, the British supermarket operator, about a takeover, the second bid this year for Sainsbury. Delta, which already holds a 25 percent stake in the grocer, said it was in preliminary talks to buy the rest. Sainsbury confirmed it had received an offer, but neither side disclosed a price. Earlier this year the company fended off a Â£10.1 billion ($20.6 billion) bid from a group of buyout funds.
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Supermarket group J Sainsbury said Thursday it would open its books to takeover suitor and Qatari investment fund Delta Two.
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J SAINSBURY&#39;s shares picked themselves up from a near-18 month low today as long-suffering shareholders&#39; appetites were whetted by talk of &#39;dream team&#39; bids for the ailing supermarkets giant.