Diageo to launch 600 million pound share buyback
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British drinks giant Diageo said that it planned to return 600 million pounds (863 million euros, 1.09 billion dollars) to investors through a share buy-back.
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Drinks giant Diageo sees a small rise in annual sales, as rising global demand offsets a decline in Europe.
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An investment group is expected to announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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IPE.com 5/Oct/04: UK - Drinks firm Diageo has transferred four million shares in US cereal maker General Mills to its UK pension plan to help cut the schemeâs 750 million-pound (1.
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London - Marks and Spencer, the struggling British retailer, on Monday began buying back more than one quarter of its shares in the biggest tender offer ever seen in Britain.
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Diageo Plc, the world's biggest   alcoholic drinks group, reported a 10 percent rise in   underlying earnings on Thursday but its shares fell on dashed   hopes that the group might raise current year targets.
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The London Stock Exchange confirmed Saturday it was buying the Borsa Italiana for 1.6 billion euros (2.15 billion dollars) in shares, according to a joint statement.
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LONDON  - Diageo PLC, the beverage company behind Guinness beer and Smirnoff vodka, said its earnings surged in its latest fiscal year from a year earlier when it sold the Burger King restaurant business at a heavy loss.
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Vodafone is to hand out Â£6bn to shareholders this year thanks to a doubling of its dividend and an increase in its share buy-back programme.
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Sydney - Global resources giant BHP Billiton on Tuesday announced a share buy-back of A$1 billion to A$1.5 billion (R4.65 billion to R6.
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Telecommunications giant Telstra Corp. on Monday revealed details of a 750 million Australian dollar (US$532 million, euro 432.2 million) share buyback that is part of a three-year plan to increase the value of its stock.
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Vodafone Group Plc plans to hand 6.0  billion pounds ($11.12 billion) back to shareholders this year  after doubling half-year and full-year dividends and boosting a  multi-billion pound share buy-back program.
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Britain's BAE Systems said it had agreed to buy DigitalNet Holdings Inc, a provider of computer networks for the US government, for 600 million dollars (489 million euros) in cash.
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The worldâs third-largest oil firm also said it planned to dispose of Â£5.6bn to Â£6.7bn of non-core businesses over the three years and would look at &quot;focused acquisitions&quot; to create value.
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Diageo has raised $2.26bn (â¬1.84bn) from the sale of 49.9 million shares of common stock held in General Mills. The shares were sold for â¬45.
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General Mills Inc. GIS.N on  Monday said it would sell an $835 million stake in its cereal  unit to a private equity group and use the money to buy back  part of Diageo Plc's DGE.L 20 percent interest in the  company.
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General Mills Inc. GIS.N on  Monday said it will sell an $835 million stake in its cereal  business to an affiliate of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc.  LEH.N and use the money to buy back 16.5 million of its  common shares from Diageo Plc DGE.L.