INTERVIEW: Australia&#39;s Billabong On Acquisition Trail
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Australian surfwear company Billabong International Ltd. (BBG.AU) said Monday it will need to consider more acquisitions as part of an effort to bolster the range of products it sells.
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Qantas Airways Ltd. , Australia's top airline, is expected to announce a takeover offer of around A$10.9 billion (US$8.55 billion) from a consortium led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  this week, possibly as early as Wednesday, sources said.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: China&#39;s enormous appetite for raw materials to fuel its economic boom is continuing to have spin-offs for Australia, with a new mining deal announced between the two countries.
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Coles Myer, the countryâs second-largest retailer, put itself up for sale, four months after rejecting a buyout offer of 18.2 billion Australian dollars ($14.4 billion) led by the equity firm Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Company. The chief executive, John Fletcher, will oversee a review of the company after receiving a number of approaches, Coles said.
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Australia's Qantas Airways  agreed on Thursday to a sweetened $8.7 billion buyout offer from a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group in the world's biggest airline takeover.
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Australian flag carrier and national icon Qantas has accepted an increased 11.1-billion-dollar (8.7 billion US) offer from a private equity group, a day after rejecting a lower bid.
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Qantas Airways Ltd. ,  Australia's top airline, is expected to announce a takeover  offer of around A$10.9 billion (US$8.55 billion) from a  consortium led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  this week,  possibly as early as Wednesday, sources said.
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Australian airline Qantas receives a takeover approach from Macquarie bank and Texas International.
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TELSTRA could look overseas for a new chief executive to steer it to full privatisation. Investor reaction to Ziggy Switkowski&#39;s resignation was muted, with speculation having done the rounds for the past week that he was about to be shown the door.
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Surfwear maker Billabong International Ltd said today its annual net profit rose 14 per cent on strong sales. Net profit for the year ended June 30 rose to A$87 million (NZ$94.
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SINGAPORE Ever since WMC Resources rejected Xstrata&#39;s $5.8 billion takeover offer last month, saying it was insufficient, WMC&#39;s chief executive, Andrew Michelmore, has been saying that there was more to his company than meets the eye.
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Telstra Corp., Australia&#39;s biggest phone company, offered to buy back shares for as much as A$4.65 each, the first stage in a plan to return A$4.
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&quot;It is extremely pleasing to see that additional benefits have already started flowing to both BHP Billiton and its Chinese partners as a result of the Wheelarra joint venture,&quot; BHP Billiton Iron Ore president Graeme Hunt said in a statement.
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Telecommunications giant Telstra Corp. on Monday revealed details of a 750 million Australian dollar (US$532 million, euro 432.2 million) share buyback that is part of a three-year plan to increase the value of its stock.
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Australia's competition regulator said on Friday it has started a review into an $8.7 billion buyout offer for Qantas Airways Ltd.  from a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group.
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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton say it has made an offer to buy its rival Rio Tinto.
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Qantas is poised for aggressive international expansion, particularly in Asia, if its takeover clears regulatory hurdles and the bidders prove they are not corporate raiders, analysts have said.