Friendly sale ends showdown
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Friendly Ice Cream Corp.'s decision to sell the Wilbraham chain to a private equity firm has headed off a proxy battle showdown and ended a bitter lawsuit filed by the company's co founder that accused Friendly's chairman of mismanagement.
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The longest running saga of the January transfer window finally came to an end when Robbie Savage completed his move from Birmingham to Blackburn for a fee of around three million pounds.
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Charlie Hodgson's kicking earns Sale a narrow victory over Saracens at Edgeley Park.
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After 18 months of conflict, a friendly merger deal has been struck between Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc. after the former raised its &quot;final&quot; offer by 10 per cent.
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The battle for control of Gold Fields starts in earnest on Friday with the closing, at noon Johannesburg time, of the first stage of Harmony&#39;s two-part merger offer to the bigger company&#39;s shareholders.
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Shares in telecommunications firm Sonae.com closed up over five percent after Portugal's competition authority cleared its hostile bid, the nation's largest-ever takeover attempt, for larger rival Portugal Telecom if certain conditions are met.
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A titanic legal tussle turns friendly.
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An England football shirt stained with Paul Gascoigne&#39;s tears has sold for almost Â£30,000 at auction. The number 19 shirt, signed by his England team mates, was bought by a private buyer at Christie&#39;s in South Kensington, London, on Tuesday.
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Sports Direct sells Umbro shares worth Â£56m to Nike and agrees to back a bid for the football kit maker.
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The long-running battle for control of business software company PeopleSoft looks to have finally been concluded in rival Oracle&#39;s favour.
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Non-memory sale to go ahead next month
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Blog: Long-running dispute between the server and software company and the smaller Java hardware maker ends with an undisclosed settlement, and both sides say they're content.
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Oracle Corp. has completed its acquisition of rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc., bringing a formal end to a tumultuous takeover saga.
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NAGOYA-A second weekend baseball strike was averted Thursday after team owners conceded to players&#39; demands and ended the often-nasty labor dispute.
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Manchester United win 5-1 on aggregate. Manchester United will hold top-level talks today in their attempt to bring Everton and England striker Wayne Rooney to Old Trafford.
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The For Sale sign has gone up over Manchester United for the third time this year after the world&#39;s richest soccer club officially disclosed it held another round of tentative
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Comps are on the slide, as competitors appear to be gaining the upper hand.