Dairy takeover battle pushes share price up
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Shares in takeover target National Foods have pushed further ahead on the Australian Stock Exchange. Yesterday, they surged more than 5 per cent higher to $6.25, after Philippine food and drink giant San Miguel
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Shares in Australian beer and wine firm Foster's jump by more than 9% after a report says it could be a bid target.
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC sweetened its $98.1 billion offer for ABN Amro Holding NV by increasing the cash portion, seeking to beat Barclays PLC to the world's biggest banking takeover.
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Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd, the world&#39;s largest dairy exporter, offered A$1.34 billion (US$1 billion) for the shares it does not own in National Foods Ltd, to expand milk sales in Australia and Asia.
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Shares in the LSE jumped nearly 26 per cent to a new record at 540 pence after Deutsche Boerse made a Â£1.3-billion approach, which was rejected by Europe&#39;s biggest equity market.
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Somerfield raised Â£51m through a shares placing yesterday to help finance the purchase of 114 stores from its rival supermarket group, William Morrison.
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Alliance Boots shares rise 3% on hopes that a private equity firm looking to buy the chemist will make a higher bid.
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Business & money: Shares in Dulux paints owner jump more than 15% on hopes of takeover battle.
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By JANES, Andrew  Fonterra says its Chinese revenues could surpass those from Australasia in five years. ANDREW JANES looks at how the dairy co- operative is ramping up its presence in the world's fastest-growing dairy market.
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U.S. coal firm Peabody Energy  Corp.  raised its bid for Australia's Excel Coal Ltd.   by nearly 12 percent to A$2 billion, but speculation  about a rival offer pushed Excel shares above Peabody's new  offer price.
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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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Business & money: Pressure mounts on government to nationalise bank after activist investor increases shareholding
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29/10/2004 National Foods will hunt for a &quot;white knight&quot; to protect it from Fonterra`s $A1.62 billion ($NZ1.76 billion) bid, raising the risk New Zealand dairy farmers will get dragged into an expensive bidding war.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - The takeover battle for ABN AMRO  heated up on Monday with the Royal Bank of Scotland  consortium boosting the cash element of its 71.1 billion-euro ($98 billion) offer.
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Shares in Big Food Group (BFP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) leaped on Friday after the owner of Britain&#39;s Iceland frozen food chain said it had held talks about
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The FTSE 100 has climbed as a surge by US shares gives a boost to European markets. Shire Pharmaceuticals SHP.L jumped after winning approval for a key drug and consumer goods giant Unilever ULVR.
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TORONTO - Shares of Husky Energy Inc. rose more than four per cent on Friday amid talk of a takeover of the Calgary-based oil company by the Chinese government.