Perrier owner lifts sale threat
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The Swiss owner of French brand Perrier lifts a threat to sell the iconic water producer despite continuing tensions.
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Business & money: Shares jump more than 12% after embattled bank reveals takeover offers.
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PACIFIC Hydro shares yesterday caught an updraught that sent them more than 20 per cent higher after the wind farmer moved to flush out a bidder.
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The company plans to recoup by raising its commission on items that sell.
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Pub group Mitchells & Butlers reports growing food sales and strong trading over the festive period.
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Food company shares regained a bit of their luster on Friday when several showed they could keep customers while raising prices.
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One of Scotlandâs most famous whisky brands has been sold to a French company for Â£300 million, it was announced tonight. The board of Glenmorangie confirmed
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Shares of casino operator Penn National Gaming (PENN) surged more than 25 percent on Thursday as its plans to buy riverboat gambling company Argosy Gaming (AGY) pushed stocks higher across the sector.
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Robert Mondavi Corp. is entertaining an offer to buy the entire company, not just the luxury assets that were put on the auction block last month.
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ServiceMaster Co. , which has faced higher costs while struggling to retain customers, said on Tuesday it was considering putting itself up for sale, sending shares up more than 10 percent.
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The company says its revenue is stabilizing. If so, a value stock is in the making.
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The owners of Fan Pier reached out to one of the losing bidders for the property over the last week to see whether the firm was still interested in the land, in case the winning team led by Lennar Corp. doesn't close the deal.
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Food purveyor Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL) -- owner of the SPAM canned meat bonanza -- had good news this morning, or so you would think. Sales were up 15%, unit volume was up 6%, and earnings, excluding a positive impact from the ...
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Shares of Alcan Inc. rose after reports of possible takeover offers from Norsk Hydro ASA and Rio Tinto Group raised expectations of a bidding war with Alcoa Inc. for the Canadian aluminum producer.
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The withdrawal of private equity bidders from an auction for Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd.  has underscored how the demands of increasingly risk averse borrowers threaten some of the more debt-laden deals.
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Speculation of a British bid for Societe  Generale, in the face of French opposition to a foreign  takeover, pushed shares in SocGen up sharply on Wednesday  nearly two weeks after it was plunged into a rogue trading  scandal.
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The company that makes the UK's best-selling malt whisky is being put up for sale by its family owners.