ICI Rebuffs Pounds 7.2bn Bid From Dutch Rival
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DULUX paint-maker ICI, one of the last remaining stalwarts of British industry, could fall into foreign hands.   Dutch chemicals group Akzo Nobel has in the past few weeks had a 600p-ashare indicativeoffer, that valued ICI at Pounds 7.2bn, rebuffed.
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British brewer Scottish and Newcastle (S and N) rejected a takeover bid Thursday from Denmark's Carlsberg and Dutch peer Heineken worth 6.8 billion pounds, dismissing the offer as an effort to get hold of S and N business "on the cheap."
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British brewer Scottish and Newcastle on Thursday rejected a takeover bid from Denmark's Carlsberg and Dutch peer Heineken worth 6.8 billion pounds (9.7 billion euros, 13.9 billion dollars).
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Deutsche Boerse, the company which operates the Frankfurt stock exchange, said Monday it had offered to buy the London Stock Exchange for around two billion euros, but that the LSE had rejected that offer.
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Britain&#39;s Cadbury Schweppes Plc   rejected a private equity bid for its North American drinks  unit over the terms rather than price after it was asked to  finance a third of the deal, industry sources said on Friday.
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SYDNEY: Directors of Australian mining giant WMC Resources Ltd. have rejected a renewed A$7.4b (US$5.7b) takeover offer from British-Swiss Xstrata Plc.
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Gold Fields has rejected a $US7.2billion ($9.5billion) takeover offer by fellow South African gold producer Harmony Gold Mining, calling its rival &quot;financially stretched&quot; and suggesting Harmony could face a cash crunch.
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South Africa's Competition Tribunal has rejected a request by Gold Fields Ltd. to block a &#36;7.1 billion hostile takeover by Harmony Gold Mining Co. that would create the world's largest gold mining company.
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Deutsche Boerse chief executive Reto Francioni has said he would keep trying to convince Euronext shareholders to merge with his group, but ruled out a hostile bid for the pan-European stock market operator.
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Imperial Chemical Industries PLC rejected an informal 7.2 billion pound ($14.2 billion) takeover bid by Akzo Nobel NV, the company said Monday.
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The London Stock Exchange has rejected a Â£1.35bn offer from German market Deutsche Boerse, but says fresh talks are possible.
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Deutsche Boerse has made a Â£1.3 billion ($2.49 billion) approach for the London Stock Exchange, and the LSE&#39;s rejection of it on Monday left observers doubting a much better offer would emerge.
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ABN Amroâs board said Sunday that it would not recommend either of the two takeover offers it had received.
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) today rejected an offer from Deutsche Borse, its bigger German rival, valuing it at about Â£1.35 billion ($2.6 billion), or 530pence per share, a significant premium to Fridayâs closing price of 430 pence.
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The British insurer Prudential said on Sunday that it had rejected an approach from a potential bidder for its online bank Egg.
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Akzo Nobel, the Dutch maker of Crown paint, says it has made a bid approach for UK rival ICI, but that it was rejected.
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ABN AMRO  stuck to its  neutral stance on Sunday on competing takeover bids for the  Dutch bank, saying it could not support a break-up under the  financially superior RBS-led  consortium&#39;s bid.