AÂ£5bn takeover bid for Sainsbury&#39;s
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Ailing supermarket chain Sainsbury&#39;s is the target of aAÂ£5 billion takeover bid being prepared by an ex-treasurer of the Conservative party, it was reported.
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Business & money: Takeover battle looms after investment fund backed by government of Qatar confirms it is considering a Â£12bn bid for the supermarket chain.
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Sainsbury could be bracing itself for a possible takeover attempt from Permira equity group, a press report claims.
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A corporate dealmaker and former Tory Party treasurer is reportedly planning a Â£5bn takeover bid for struggling supermarket chain Sainsbury&#39;s.
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A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  unveiled a bid for ABN AMRO  on Tueday valued at 38.40 euros per share, worth a total 71.1 billion euros ($95.6 billion).
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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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Shares in J Sainsbury have risen by 3 per cent on mounting rumours of a potential Â£8 billion bid involving Allan Leighton, the serial director.
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Qatar&#39;s grab of a slice of the London Stock Exchange and its bid for British supermarket chain Sainsbury&#39;s underline the tiny Gulf state&#39;s ambition to become a global economic player and diversify revenues despite its vast gas wealth.
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Supermarkets group J Sainsbury faces fresh takeover speculation today after it emerged that dealmaker George Magan might try to raise financing for an offer.
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Nasdaq  launched its 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange  on Tuesday and will need just over a fifth of LSE shareholders to accept for it to take control of the bourse.
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Sainsbury's receives an offer from a Middle East investment fund, valuing  the supermarket at about Â£10.3bn.
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A Qatari investment group said Friday that it has increased its stake in J Sainsbury to 25 percent.
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SOFTWARE company PeopleSoft has agreed to a sweetened Â£5.4 billion buy-out by rival Oracle, relenting after a bitter 18-month takeover saga.
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Private equity groups CVC Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone have said they are mulling a takeover of J Sainsbury, the third-biggest biggest supermarket chain in Britain.
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Leeds were due to hold a board meeting today amid reports that a Â£25million takeover is close to completion. The Yorkshire Post reports that Sebastien Sainsbury, the great grandson of the founder of Sainsbury&#39;s
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British supermarket group J Sainsbury said Thursday it would open its books to takeover suitor and Qatari investment fund Delta Two.