Australia&#39;s Coles accepts 18.7 billion dollar buyout offer
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Australia&#39;s second largest retailer Coles said Monday it had agreed to a 22 billion dollar (18.7 billion US) buyout offer from conglomerate Wesfarmers, the largest corporate deal in Australian history.
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Shares in Australian flag carrier Qantas have jumped more than four percent amid expectations a takeover consortium is finally ready to formally table a multi-billion dollar offer for the airline.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia's Qantas Airways has been approached by Macquarie Bank and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group about a takeover that analysts said Wednesday could be worth almost 11 billion Australian dollars, or $8.5 billion.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Coles Myer Ltd. (CM) and Macquarie Bank Ltd. (MBL.AU) were Wednesday night close to finalizing a fresh bid for pubs and liquor group Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group Ltd.
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BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecommunications group, has agreed to a C$51.7 billion ($48.5 billion) offer from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, in what the purchasers said was the largest buyout in Canadian corporate history.
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Britainâs largest brewer, agreed to a Â£7.8 billion ($15.4 billion) takeover by the European rivals Carlsberg and Heineken.
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Australia's national carrier Qantas Airways was expected to announce it has accepted an improved takeover offer worth around 8.7 billion US dollars from a private equity consortium, reports said.
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Australia&#39;s biggest retailer Coles Myer has posted a record net profit of Aust. $576.5 million ($403 million) and says it is on track to achieve its 2006 target of A$800 million.
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Silk Cut cigarette maker Gallaher receives a takeover approach, which values the company at Â£7.5bn.
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Australia's flagship airline Qantas accepts an improved takeover bid by a consortium led by Macquarie Bank.
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An $8.7 billion takeover bid for Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.  by a consortium led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  is fair and reasonable, an independent expert said on Monday.
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Australia's Qantas Airways  has received a buyout offer from investment firms Macquarie Bank  and Texas Pacific Group that could be worth more than A$10 billion ($7.77 billion), sending its shares up 15 percent.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--The world&#39;s largest owner of shopping malls, Australia&#39;s Westfield Group (WDC.AU), bid GBP585 million for Chelsfield PLC (CLF.
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Shares in Australia&#39;s Coles  Group Ltd.  fell nearly 4 percent on Tuesday after  private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts  pulled  out of a consortium planning to bid for the retailer.
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Trading in the shares of Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd.  and conglomerate Wesfarmers Ltd.  was halted on Monday for talks on a bid by Wesfarmers for Coles that could be worth up to A$20.7 billion ($17.7 billion).
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CVC Asia Pacific, a buyout firm, said it had agreed to buy the DCA Group for 1.7 billion Australian dollars ($1.3 billion) to gain control of an Australian provider of hospitals for the elderly. CVC will pay 3.50 Australian dollars for each share of DCA, 35 percent more than the stockÂs price on Sept. 8, when DCA said it had received takeover offers. DCA owns 229 X-ray clinics and 6,000 nursing home beds, mostly in Australia. CVC Asia is owned by Citigroup and CVC Capital Partners of London.
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An $8.7 billion takeover bid for  Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.  by a consortium led by  Macquarie Bank Ltd.  is fair and reasonable, an  independent expert said on Monday.