Steel Partners Offers to Buy Up GenCorp
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Investment group Steel Partners II LP on Thursday offered to buy up the remaining stake in aircraft component maker GenCorp Inc., saying the company&#39;s board has made &quot;many mistakes&quot; in allocating capital and managing day-to-day operations.
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Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal on Monday agreed to buy International Steel Group Inc. (ISG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for $4.5 billion and
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America's biggest steel maker, International Steel Group Inc., agreed to a $4.5 billion buyout bid from a Dutch concern in a multipart transaction that will create the world's largest steel company.
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Lakshmi Mittal, one of the UK's  wealthiest men, will merge his steel assets and buy  International Steel Group Inc. in a deal worth $17.8 billion to  form the world's largest steel company.
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India's biggest private steel firm Tata Steel is in talks to acquire Anglo-Dutch steel giant Corus Group in a deal anticipated to be worth more than 10 billion dollars, newspaper reports say.
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India's Tata Steel  won a bid battle for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group   on Wednesday by agreeing to offer investors 608 pence per share in cash, or 5.75 billion pounds ($11.3 billion).
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A privately-owned Dutch steelmaker headed by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is buying US-based International Steel Group Inc. for about $4.
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Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus says it is accepting a revised Â£4.7bn takeover offer from Indian rival Tata Steel.
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India's Tata Steel  raised a bid for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus  to an agreed 4.7 billion pounds ($9.2 billion) on Sunday as it seeks to head off a potential counterbid from Brazil's CSN .
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Scottish dairy firm Robert Wiseman is in talks about selling a 15% stake in the company to farmers&#39; co-operative First Milk. The firm said the price of any deal is expected to be 250 pence per share, a 10% premium on Friday&#39;s closing price.
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Casino operator Stanley Leisure says it has agreed a takeover offer from Malaysian gaming firm Genting.
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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.
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A Canadian steel maker, Ipsco, said it was buying the NS Group, a maker of steel pipes and tubes used in oil fields, for about $1.46 billion. The deal will be used to broaden IpscoÂs sales to the energy industry, the chief executive, David Sutherland, said. ÂThis is a transaction thatÂs all about growth, and if anything, what we will see over the next three years is a growth in the output of all of their facilities, as well as the continuing demand on our own,Â Mr. Sutherland said in a conference call. Ipsco agreed to pay $66 a share for the NS Group, which was a 43 percent premium to its closing price on Friday. After the transaction is complete, the new company is expected to have combined annual revenue of more than $4 billion. Ipsco, which is based in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has executive offices in Leslie, Ill., operates three steel mills and six pipe mills in the United States and Canada. The NS Group is based in Newport, Ky.
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The Motley Fool - Here's something you don't see every day -- the continuing brouhaha between Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT - News) being a notable exception. South Africa's Harmony Gold Mining Company (NYSE: HMY - News) has announced a hostile takeover bid to acquire fellow South African miner Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI - News). The transaction, if it takes place, would be an all-stock acquisition, with Harmony issuing 1.275 new shares in payment for each share of Gold Fields. The deal would value Gold Fields at more than &#36;8 billion. ...
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India's Tata Steel  raised its bid for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus  to an agreed 4.7 billion pounds ($9.2 billion) on Sunday as it seeks to head off a potential counterbid from Brazil's CSN .
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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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Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal announced plans Monday to take over US steelmaker International Steel Group as part of a three-way merger to create a global metals mammoth.