Marks and Spencer starts massive share buy-back
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London - Marks and Spencer, the struggling British retailer, on Monday began buying back more than one quarter of its shares in the biggest tender offer ever seen in Britain.
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General Electric Co., the biggest company by market value, said it will buy back as much as $15 billion in stock over three years and raised its quarterly dividend 10 percent, more than some analysts had estimated.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is launching a new share repurchase plan in which it will buy back $10 billion of company shares. The plan replaces a previous plan in which the company was buying back $7 billion worth of shares.
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The retail company has another positive quarter and is buying back shares.
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Shares in London began trading to the upside on Tuesday with Marks &amp; Spencer leading gainers after cheering investors with an upbeat trading statement.
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European equities fell sharply on Wednesday after retail stocks were severely hit by disappointing sales numbers from Britain's Marks & Spencer.
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General Electric Co., the world&#39;s biggest company by market value, will buy back as much as $15 billion in stock and raise its dividend as Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt&#39;s growth strategy generates more cash and profit.
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Food and clothing chain Marks &amp; Spencer PLC said Tuesday it had bought the per una clothing brand from businessman George Davies for 125 million pounds (&#36;223 million).
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Marks &amp; Spencer today set the price for its record share buyback above market expectations, at 362p per share. The retailer said demand for the Â£2.
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Marks &amp; Spencer yesterday revealed a further deterioration in trade - with dire new sales figures for its fashion, food and homewares - as it launched a Â£2.
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Demand for a 2.3-billion-pound share buyback by Marks &amp; Spencer has been strong, the retailer says after pricing the move above market expectations at 362 pence per share.
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Shareholders in Marks &amp; Spencer yesterday voted overwhelmingly to accept the board&#39;s proposal for the largest tender offer made in Britain by a company for its own shares.
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A Qatari investment fund, the Delta Fund, said it was talking with J Sainsbury, the British supermarket operator, about a takeover, the second bid this year for Sainsbury. Delta, which already holds a 25 percent stake in the grocer, said it was in preliminary talks to buy the rest. Sainsbury confirmed it had received an offer, but neither side disclosed a price. Earlier this year the company fended off a Â£10.1 billion ($20.6 billion) bid from a group of buyout funds.
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Smiths Group is to buy Medex, a US healthcare company, for $925m (Â£477m), including $300m of debt, in the biggest deal for the UK engineering conglomerate since the merger of Smiths and TI Group in 2000.
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Marks &amp; Spencer today revealed a further dramatic fall in sales figures and then disappointed shareholders even further with its buyback offer.
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LONDON: Marks &amp; Spencer has announced a top-level shake-up, as it revealed a deterioration in trading conditions and posted a first-half profit in line with expectations.
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Share sale to fund 'world's biggest fab' expansion plan