Wedgwood close to Doulton takeover
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SIR ANTHONY OâREILLY is considering a Â£40 million takeover of Royal Doulton in an attempt to improve the performance of Waterford Wedgwood, which he chairs.
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Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the world-famous but debt-laden maker of luxury homewares, issued a profits warning Thursday as it unveiled a &#36;72 million plan to acquire British rival Royal Doulton.
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Waste collection firm Biffa agrees to a Â£1.2bn takeover offer, but says another approach may emerge.
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TIMES STILL TOUGH FOR WATERFORD - Waterford Wedgwood has issued interim results for the six months to the end of September. Conditions remain tough for the group.
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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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British utility firm AWG 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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Business & money: Transport for London to declare interest in acquiring stricken London Underground contracting firm.
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The European medical products manufacturer Smith & Nephew is expected to place a bid for the medical device maker Biomet sometime this week.
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News Corporation wants to move its newspaper printing plants from Wapping to new production plans in Enfield in north London, Glasgow, and Knowsley, near Liverpool.
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_ Kidde PLC, the British fire and safety company, said Thursday it had agreed to a 1.4 billion pound ($2.8 billion) takeover by United Technologies Corp.
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Raytheon Co. of Waltham is close to an agreement to sell its largest nondefense business, Raytheon Aircraft Co., to a private equity firm and is expected to complete the deal by the end of the year.
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LONDON : Two of the world&#39;s leading chinaware manufacturers, Waterford Wedgwood and Royal Doulton, said they were close to agreeing on a merger, as the British ceramics industry battles to survive.
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The London Stock Exchange last night looked likely to be taken over by one of its overseas rivals, after more than 300 years as one of Britain&#39;s key institutions.
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The government gives the go-ahead for the Â£1.06bn sale of helicopter maker AgustaWestland, based in Somerset.
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CSC considers its options The takeover of iSoft by Aussie firm IBA Health is likely to go ahead.â¦
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An investment group is expected to announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion (2.2 billion pounds, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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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.