World Business Briefing: Britain: Fund Bids for Sainsbury
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Delta Two, a Qatar-backed investment fund, said it submitted an offer to the board of J Sainsbury that valued the company, one of Britainâs largest retailers, at about Â£10.6 billion ($21.7 billion), or 600 pence a share. It was the second cash offer this year for Sainsbury; Delta owns 25 percent of the company. The fund proposed spending Â£3.5 billion to build and renovate Sainsbury stores and expand its range of nonfood goods.
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A corporate dealmaker and former Tory Party treasurer is reportedly planning a Â£5bn takeover bid for struggling supermarket chain Sainsbury&#39;s.
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J Sainsbury, the British supermarket chain, softened its opposition to Qatarâs Â£10.5 billion ($21 billion) takeover bid after Qatar said it would borrow less to pay for the deal.
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J Sainsbury, the country&#39;s third biggest supermarket, said Wednesday it had received a takeover approach from a Qatari investment group.
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ARCHIE NORMAN, the former chief executive of Asda, has been approached to lead a bid for J Sainsbury, the troubled supermarket chain.
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Private equity groups CVC Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone are mulling a takeover of J Sainsbury, the third-biggest biggest supermarket chain in Britain.
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GEORGE Magan, the legendary City corporate financier and former Tory treasurer, is understood to be planning a Â£5 billion swoop on the struggling food retail giant, J Sainsbury.
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Sainsbury's opens its books to the Qatar-based investment firm Delta Two which is planning a Â£10.3bn bid.
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Sainsbury's is approached by a Middle Eastern investment fund about a possible Â£12bn  takeover, the FT claims.
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A Qatari investment group said Friday that it has increased its shareholding in J Sainsbury to 25 percent.
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A Qatari investment group said Friday that it has increased its stake in J Sainsbury to 25 percent.
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A Qatari investment fund, the Delta Fund, said it was talking with J Sainsbury, the British supermarket operator, about a takeover, the second bid this year for Sainsbury. Delta, which already holds a 25 percent stake in the grocer, said it was in preliminary talks to buy the rest. Sainsbury confirmed it had received an offer, but neither side disclosed a price. Earlier this year the company fended off a Â£10.1 billion ($20.6 billion) bid from a group of buyout funds.
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THE Leeds United board today demanded proof of funding after considering a &amp;pound25 million ($61.58m) takeover deal headed by Sebastian Sainsbury.
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Sainsbury says it will take a 550 million pound hit to profits this year as it invests to boost sales and reverse falling market share.
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The emirate's investment arm needs to find $1 billion in two weeks to buy British retailer Sainsbury.
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Shares in J Sainsbury, the supermarkets group, have been surging all week on renewed bid speculation. Yet I think the company has to be believed when it insists that there have been no approaches, nor would