Ratner 'to bid Â£350m for Signet'
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Gerald Ratner is set to table an improved bid of Â£350m for the UK operations of jewllery company Signet.
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Rupert Murdoch is moving. The owner of News Corporation was said yesterday to have offered $44m (Â£22m) for an elegant, three-level penthouse apartment facing Central Park on Manhattan&#39;s fashionable Fifth Avenue.
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ONE of the UK&#39;s biggest industrial companies is set for Mexican ownership after agreeing to a Â£2.3bn takeover offer. Directors of Egham-based RMC - the world&#39;s largest ready-mixed concrete producer - have
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Defence Secretary Des Browne details a Â£3.8bn contract for two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers.
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Concrete maker RMC is set to be bought by Mexican rival Cemex in a deal valuing it at around Â£2.3 billion, it was announced today.
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Â· Rose also promised Â£4.5m in shares if targets are met  Â· Shopworkers in line for payouts of Â£500 each
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According to the deal worth $35 million, it will supply and install human resources software to help the US Postal Service manage its staff of about 700,000.
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A preferred buyer for the National Irish and Northern banks is expected to be announced by their parent this morning. National Australia Bank is due to make an announcement to the stock exchanges in Melbourne and London.
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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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Warner Chilcott Plc, Northern Ireland&#39;s largest drugmaker, said it&#39;s talking with an unidentified bidder that has offered about 1.56 billion pounds ($2.
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Goldman Sachs is close to completing a  15 billion pound ($29.5 billion) financing package to be used  by suitors for UK lender Northern Rock , the Sunday  Times reported, adding details may be unveiled this week.
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Oracle yesterday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft by 14%, to $8.8bn (Â£4.37bn), and for the first time set a deadline for acceptance of the bid.
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The cost of staging the 2012 Olympics could soar to nine billion pounds - nearly four times the 2.35 billion estimated by London ahead of sealing the bid.
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Private equity firm Alchemy Partners is  lining up a 3 billion pound ($5.9 billion) bid for U.S. car  maker Ford&#39;s  luxury UK brands Jaguar and Land Rover, the  City A.M. newspaper said on Monday.
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A string of bidders are vying to pay about $5bn (Â£2.6bn) for a chunk of prime real estate in Lower Manhattan.
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Lachlan Murdoch and the gambling magnate James D. Packer have made an offer of 3.3 billion Australian dollars ($2.9 billion) to buy Consolidated Media Holdings.
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UK BUILDING materials firm and world market leader RMC has agreed to a Â£2.3 billion takeover bid from the worldâs third largest concrete-maker, Cemex of Mexico.