G.M. Offers Buyouts to 74,000
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The buyout offer, which covers G.M.âs entire unionized work force, came as G.M. announced a $722 million fourth-quarter loss.
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General Motors Acceptance Corp. plans to sell $2.7 billion of securities backed by auto loans on Wednesday, a person familiar with the deal said on Tuesday.
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GLG Partners, one of Europe's largest hedge fund firms, has lined up a U.S. stock market listing to help it expand and hire top managers, using a reverse acquisition with a shell company that values it at $3.4 billion.
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PepsiCo. Inc., the world&#39;s No. 2 soft- drink maker, plans to buy General Mills Inc.&#39;s 40.5 percent stake in their European snacks joint venture for $750 million in cash.
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General Motors Corp. said on Wednesday it will offer buyout packages early next year to its salaried employees in the United States to cut costs.
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General Motors Corp. agreed to sell its Allison Transmission unit to buyout firms Carlyle Group and Onex Corp. for $5.6 billion as the largest US automaker raises cash to pay for job cuts, plant closings, and new models.
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Drinks giant Diageo said it had raised 2.26 billion dollars (1.84 billion euros) from the sale of 49.9 million shares in US food company General Mills Inc.
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The buyout firm Apollo Management said it might offer nearly $2 billion in cash and stock for Countrywide, the largest chain of real estate brokers in Britain. Apollo said it planned to offer 505 pence ($9.86) in cash for each Countrywide share, plus shares in Rightmove, a company in which Countrywide holds a stake. The offer values Countrywide shares at about 590 pence ($11.52) each, or a total of about Â£1 billion ($1.95 billion). Countrywide shareholders have rejected a Â£1.02 billion takeover bid from the 3i Group, a private equity firm.
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A $55 million purchase could be bigger than investors think.
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Diageo is looking to sell part of its stake in General Mills Inc. The drinks giant announced yesterday (4 October) that it plans to sell around 33.
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General Motors Corp. is close to an agreement with the United Auto Workers on another round of buyout and early retirement offers to cut the number of workers in jobs banks and clear openings for workers hired at lower-tier wages
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UK-BASED investment manager and life services provider HHG Plc has agreed to sell its Life Services business for an estimated $2.46 billion.
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General Motors posted better-than-expected fourth quarter financial results, but indicated that its efforts to shave costs are not behind it as it offered buyouts to 74,000 employees - its entire U.S. hourly workforce.
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Investor Kirk Kerkorian said he may   consider buying up to 12 million additional shares of General   Motors Corp. GM.N common stock, according to a filing on   Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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PepsiCo Inc. on Monday agreed to buy General Mills Inc.&#39;s 40.5 percent stake in a European joint venture between the two food giants for $750 million.
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Advertising giant WPP is to buy US firm Grey Global, in a deal which could be worth as much as Â£750m ($1.3bn). The UK-based group won the auction for Grey Global, the seventh-largest advertiser in the US, against
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Triad Hospitals Inc. has accepted a $4.7 billion takeover offer from affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors and GS Capital Partners, after pressure for management of the hospital chain to improve its return to investors.