San Miguel bids for Australian dairy
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San Miguel, the largest food and beverage maker in the Philippines, said Thursday that it had agreed to buy National Foods, Australia&#39;s biggest dairy company, for 1.78 billion Australian dollars, or $1.4 billion, raising the prospect of a bidding war with
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba Miguel Joyal is thinking Styrofoam.
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YOUNG Limerick companies and local entrepreneurs are being urged to enter the All Ireland Seedcorn competition, which offers a prize fund of 230,000 euro for growing businesses.
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Beverages giant Foster's Group has launched a 3.1 billion dollar (2.35 billion US) bid for Southcorp in what is likely to be the opening shot in a drawn-out takeover war for Australia's biggest wine producer.
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San Miguel, the Philippines-based food and drinks group, has emerged as a white knight for National Foods, on Thursday unveiling aA$1.78bn ($1.37bn) recommended offer for the Australian dairy producer.
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In a new ad campaign, dairy companies are using interactive features and sports and entertainment celebrities to try to draw young people to milk.
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BREWING giant San Miguel yesterday elbowed past New Zealand&#39;s biggest company, with a $1.8 billion bid for Australia&#39;s biggest dairy group National Foods.
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The Coca-Cola Co. KO.N is in talks to   take over management and control of the soft drinks arm of the   Philippines' San Miguel Corp. SMCB.PS, though a formal deal   has yet be agreed, a Coke official said on Monday.
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MELBOURNE: Australian dairy group National Foods Ltd said yesterday it is continuing merger talks with SPC Ardmona despite becoming a takeover target itself.
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National Foods is using a strategy of new product releases to reinvigorate a stagnating dairy sector. Picture:Michele Mossop. National Foods, fresh from posting a 14 per cent rise in profit
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The Mexican cement giant reaches a crucial 90% stake in an Australian rival.
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An investment firm is buying Marble Slab Creamery and MaggieMooâs International in a bid to overtake Cold Stone Creamery, according to people involved with the deal.
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By TACON, Terry  `The neighbours have been great, providing paddocks and a water system'   -- Graham Haynes   --------------------   IT'S HARD to keep a good dairy team down, but the example being set by Southland sharemilkers Graham and Glenda Haynes is exceptional.
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UK firm RMC, the world&#39;s biggest maker of ready-mixed concrete, is reportedly to get a takeover bid worth at least $4bn (Â£2.2bn) from Mexican group Cemex.
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Councillors in Alice Springs have offered to take Prince Charles on an Aussie-style stag night when he visits next month, while promising the heir to the throne will not end up chained naked to a lamp post.
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Fonterra is aiming for a significant share of the Australian dairy foods market, with a bid for one of Australia&#39;s largest operators.
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Falling milk prices, evaporating European Union subsidies and tougher demands by supermarket chains yesterday nudged two of Europe&#39;s leading dairy companies into the biggest merger in the continent&#39;s dairy industry.