Anglian Water firm in Â£2.2bn bid
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AWG, the owner of Anglian Water, accepts a Â£2.2bn takeover bid from a group led by private equity firm 3i.
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The firm which owns Yorkshire Water sees its profits rise by10%, thanks partly to an above-average rise in bills.
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Holcim, the world's number two cement maker has made a friendly, 1.8 billion-pound (3.4 billion-dollar, 2.6 billion-euro) takeover bid for British counterpart Aggregate Industries, the firms said.
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A water firm faces charges of supplying water unfit for human consumption after hundreds were left ill.
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An investment group is expected to  announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water  utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion, a source  familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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By JANE SIMPSON  THE country's last privately owned river has become the first stretch of water at the centre of a community buyout bid.   Locals are preparing to pay almost Pounds 20,000 a mile for the River Ugie to prevent it falling into the hands of wealthy landowners.
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The building trade could be asked to pay more for providing water supplies to developments, it emerges.
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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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Business & money: The founder of Britain's largest private insurance firm, Towergate, could make Â£2bn after it emerged that his company has received bid approaches.
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Utility firm AWG has said it had agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds (3.272 billion euros, 4.145 billion dollars) -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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An investment group is expected to announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion (2.2 billion pounds, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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Science & environment: UK's leading food and drink manufacturers join forces in new initiative to cut down on water usage
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The Takeovers Panel said today the Woolworths bidding group had offered two undertakings on its proposed $1.2 billion bid for Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group that resolved concerns from rival bidders.
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Britain&#39;s biggest mortgage lender, HBOS  Plc , is in the early stages of planning a 1.2 billion  pound ($2.44 billion) takeover bid for property group Quintain  Estates & Development Plc , The Sunday Times reported.
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Utility firm AWG says it has agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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Coca-Cola Co.  is in talks to buy  Britain&#39;s No. 2 bottled water brand Highland Spring in a  potential 500 million pound ($992.7 million) deal, British  Sunday newspapers reported.
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The Nasdaq reveals a Â£2.7bn  hostile takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange.