Bausch reportedly attracts rival offer
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc., a maker of eye-care and surgical products, bid $75 a share for rival Bausch &amp; Lomb Inc., topping an offer from private-equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Birmingham confirm they have been approached about a possible takeover bid.
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Germany's MAN AG  will soon  raise its bid for truck maker Scania (SCVb.ST), a Swedish  newspaper said on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
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An Internet entrepreneur and a Wall  Street group have joined a list of potential rivals to News  Corp.&#39;s $5 billion bid for Wall Street Journal publisher Dow  Jones & Co. Inc., an adviser to the Dow Jones employee union  said on Thursday.
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PREMIERSHIP football club Manchester United is facing the possibility of a fresh bid from US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer. The Old Trafford-based club said the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had indicated a &quot;potential revision&quot; to a previous proposal.
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An Internet entrepreneur and a Wall Street group have joined a list of potential rivals to News Corp.'s  $5 billion bid for Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , an adviser to the Dow Jones employee union said on Thursday.
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Premiership football club Manchester United was today facing the possibility of a fresh bid from US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer. The Old Trafford-based club said the owner
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The impending sale of Bausch & Lomb has convinced some that the incentive for executives to boost share price has been replaced by a temptation to score huge personal windfalls.
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The 31-year-old right-hander yesterday signed a two-year contract worth $4.15 million US. Speier will earn $1.9 million next season and $2.25 million in 2006.
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Switzerland&#39;s Barry Callebaut   said it is looking to sell U.S. candy maker Brach&#39;s, which  weighed on nine-month sales growth, and repeated that higher  commodity prices would burden the full-year results.
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Shares in Germany's Commerzbank , which has been persistently cited as a possible takeover target, jumped over 3 percent on Tuesday to near a seven-year peak on market talk that Citigroup  was likely to bid about 45 euros for the bank, traders said.
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Manchester United Plc, the world&#39;s biggest soccer club by revenue, said it may receive a takeover offer from an unidentified bidder.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  has offered to buy rival eye-care company Bausch & Lomb Inc.  for $4.23 billion, topping a $3.67 billion offer from private equity firm Warburg Pincus , according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Iowa City, Ia. - Kirk Ferentz had a chance to talk about someone else being mentioned for a coaching position in the National Football League on Monday.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.   has offered to buy rival eye-care company Bausch & Lomb Inc.   for $4.23 billion, topping a $3.67 billion offer from  private equity firm Warburg Pincus , according to the  Wall Street Journal.
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Commerzbank , which has been persistently cited as a possible takeover target, jumped 2.2 percent to 37.8 euros, its highest in nearly seven years on market talk Citigroup  was likely to bid about 45 euros for the bank.
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Business & money: Cable company says it has received a takeover bid and is considering potential sale.