Ahold Raises Stake in ICA to 60 Percent
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The global food retailer Ahold NV, which owns the Stop &amp; Shop and Giant chains in the United States, said Monday it will buy a 20 percent stake in Scandinavian grocer ICA AB for 7.35 billion Swedish kronor (&#36;1.03 billion).
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AMSTERDAM -- The Dutch supermarket retailer Ahold, seeking to streamline global operations and reduce debt, said yesterday that it will sell its holdings in Spain to Permira Funds, for roughly $849 million.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings raised its bid for CBOT Holdings, parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, for the second time in five weeks, adding a $485 million dividend to its earlier $10.19 billion proposal.
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London Stock Exchange Group Plc forecast a big rise in third-quarter earnings and pledged to raise its full-year dividend at least 50 percent as it reiterated its opposition to a 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid from U.S. rival Nasdaq .
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Shares of Accredited Home Lenders Holding rose as much as 41.2 percent after Lone Star Funds made a revised offer for the subprime lender.
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Newspaper says largest US discount carrier could boost annual revenue by $60 million as a result. NEW YORK  - Southwest Airlines Inc.
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Ahold, the Dutch super-market group, took another step along its &quot;road to recovery&quot; on Thursday after the sale of two retail subsidiaries for $660m to a private US equity group.
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Hutchison Telecommunications International (HTIL) hopes to raise as much as HK$8.81 billion from a dual listing in Hong Kong and New York, parent Hutchison Whampoa said.
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This week saw three merger deals worth about $60 billion--including one that ranks as the largest software merger in history.
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Kraft Foods Inc  shares rose on Friday after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc   revealed it had taken an 8.6 percent stake, making it by far the foodmaker's largest shareholder.
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Acquisition, which is worth $60 million, is designed to expand McAfee's efforts in the regulatory-compliance market.
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Shares of Dell Inc. DELL.O rose 2.3  percent before the bell on Friday after the computer maker said  it is a year ahead of schedule in its plan to double its annual  revenue to $60 billion.
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Hollinger Inc., the scandal-plagued parent of newspaper publisher Hollinger International Inc., Tuesday said it increased the number of independent directors on its board to five from three.
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AMSTERDAM  - Global food retailer Ahold NV, which owns the Stop &amp; Shop and Giant supermarket chains in the United States, reported a wider loss Wednesday for the third quarter, mainly because of one-time charges.
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Altria Group Inc., the parent of tobacco company Philip Morris, Wednesday raised its regular quarterly dividend to 73 cents from 68 cents.
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US mutual fund assets grew by 3.6 percent to $7.92 trillion in November, lifted by higher stock prices and a near-doubling of new investments from a month earlier, the Investment Company Institute said in a report.
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LONDON, October 25  - Analysts at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein maintain their &quot;add&quot; rating on Ahold (AHO.