Concrete giant in Â£2.3bn takeover
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CONCRETE maker RMC is set to be bought by Mexican rival Cemex in a deal valuing it about Â£2.3bn. Directors from both companies have approved the purchase of the world&#39;s biggest maker of ready-mixed cement.
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Utility firm AWG has said it had agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds (3.272 billion euros, 4.145 billion dollars) -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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BusinessWeek Online - It sounds like a tale of woe for Europe's investment banks. One of the biggest takeover attempts in British retail history -- retail tycoon Philip Green's &#36;17 billion bid for iconic Marks &amp; Spencer Group PLC -- came to naught. A much-anticipated boom in initial public offerings has fizzled. And after a drought that started in 2001, merger-and-acquisition activity remains in a funk. But bankers in Europe's financial capital, the City of London, and its auxiliary, Canary Wharf, aren't crying in their pints. ...
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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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Northern Rock, the mortgage lender saved from collapse  by the Bank of England, took a step toward repaying the loans by selling a 2.2 billion pound portfolio to JP Morgan.
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Audax Group, a private Boston investment firm, said it has acquired Ready Mixed Concrete Co. for $210 million in a buyout deal that also included Ready Mixed management. This is the sixth deal in the past four months for Audax, which invests in companies on behalf of college endowments and pension funds, said cochief executive Geoffrey Rehnert. Audax has 13 ...
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LONDON: Mexico&#39;s Cemex, the world&#39;s third-largest cement maker, has agreed to buy Britain&#39;s RMC Group for around Â£2.3bil (US$4.
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Eurocastle Investment, a London-listed group managed by US private equity group Fortress Investment, is to pay â¬300m (Â£210m) for a Deutsche Bank property portfolio, the latest deal in the vast property sell-off under way in Germany.
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Mexico&#39;s Cemex, the world&#39;s third-largest cement maker, is to buy RMC Group for around 2.3 billion pounds in cash. RMC RMC.
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Utility firm AWG says it has agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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RMC, the troubled UK building materials group, was swallowed up for Â£2.3bn yesterday by the world&#39;s third-biggest cement producer, Cemex of Mexico.
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Xstrata PLC, the world's third-largest copper producer, said Tuesday it will raise 2.9 billion pounds ($5.47 billion) in a special equity offering to help finance its takeover of Canadian mining company Falconbridge Ltd.
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A Lazard board meeting today could set in motion a $3.2bn (Â£1.8bn) stock market flotation of the 156-year-old investment bank. Bruce Wasserstein, the bank&#39;s chief executive, has been working to win support
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LONDON : Britain&#39;s third-biggest grocer, J Sainsbury, is the target of a five-billion-pound (7.2-billion-euro, 9.1-billion-dollar) takeover bid.
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Switzerland's Holcim Ltd., the world's second largest cement maker, is in talks about the possibility of paying about &#36;3.4 billion for the construction and building group Aggregate Industries PLC., the companies said Wednesday. Aggregate's shares soared.
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THE Limerick-based aviation services company, FBO Shannon has been taken over by a British firm for over 2.5million euro.
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Holcim, the world's number two cement maker has made a friendly, 1.8 billion-pound (3.4 billion-dollar, 2.6 billion-euro) takeover bid for British counterpart Aggregate Industries, the firms said.