Iceland's Baugur bids for UK firm
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Shares in discount retailer Big Food Group rise more than 11% as the owner of the Iceland frozen food chain reveals it is in bid talks.
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Plans to extend UK licensing hours sparked controversy but how have similar changes fared in Reykjavik?
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West Ham accept an Â£85m offer from an Icelandic consortium headed by Eggert Magnusson.
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Business & money: Government tells two groups bidding for Northern Rock to improve their offers or see bank nationalised
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Whisky distiller Glenmorangie said today it was in talks with a number of potential suitors about a takeover. The firm, one of the largest remaining independent companies
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Germany's MAN AG is preparing a more  attractive offer for Sweden's Scania (SCVb.ST), the Wall Street  Journal on Friday quoted MAN  Chief Executive Hakan  Samuelsson as saying.
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Nasdaq, the US firm which tried to buy the London Stock Exchange, offers to take over a Swedish rival for $3.7bn.
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Support services firm Serco Group   SRP.L is preparing a consortium to bid for state-owned   clean-up firm British Nuclear Group, the object of a takeover   offer from U.S. firm Fluor FLR.N, the Mail on Sunday   newspaper said.
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U.S. investment firm General Atlantic  Partners and other venture capital firms are in talks with  Britain's Northgate Information Solutions Plc  over a  possible takeover that could be worth more than 600 million  pounds ($1.13 billion), a newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Japan Tobacco Inc has offered to buy British rival Gallaher Group in a deal that could be the largest-ever acquisition by a Japanese firm worth at least 15 billion dollars plus debt.
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German industrial conglomerate MAN AG   bid 9.6 billion euros ($12.2 billion) in cash and stock for   Sweden's Scania AB in a deal that would create Europe's largest   truckmaker.
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Britain&#39;s largest low-cost airline, easyJet, was at the centre of frenzied speculation over a Nordic takeover last night after Icelandair revealed it had snapped up an 8.4% stake.
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The Kraft family is interested in investing in British soccer. But the Krafts are maintaining a much smaller role in bidding for Liverpool Football Club than Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer is in his pursuit of Manchester United.
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One of Britain's largest independent game makers, Argonaut Games, has been put up for sale.
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Business & money: Deal could trigger takeover bid for seller Whitbread.
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Australia&#39;s Babcock & Brown  Infrastructure Ltd.  made a revised takeover offer for  U.S. utility NorthWestern Energy Corp.  after a  regulator blocked its initial US$2.2 billion bid on concerns  the deal was not in the interests of customers.
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EUROPEâS biggest defence contractors will have the chance to bid for a $23 billion (Â£12 billion) air refuelling contract for the US Air Force that has been withdrawn from Boeing.