UK Ad Firm Clinches Bid for U.S. Rival
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - British advertising company WPP  WPP.L on Sunday said it has won an auction for U.S. rival  Grey Global GREY.O, with what sources familiar with the  matter said was a cash-and-stock deal worth about $1.34  billion.
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Gallaher Group, the maker of the Benson & Hedges brand in Europe, said it had received an offer of Â£7.5 billion ($14.7 billion).
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Manchester United fansâ attempts to stave off a threatened takeover by American businessman Malcolm Glazer have received a substantial boost.
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United States engineering giant UTC has vowed to battle on in its attempts to buy fire extinguisher maker Kidde. The group, whose Â£1.
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Cazenove and JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co. unveiled a joint venture that effectively ends 181 years of independence for the UK stockbroker and gives a big boost to the US investment bank&#39;s UK presence.
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The US firm which owns online retailer Lastminute.com agrees to a $4.5bn takeover bid by two private equity firms.
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US regulators approve Google's $3.1bn  takeover of online advertising firm Doubleclick.
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Eighteen months after it began, the bitter and bizarre takeover battle is over. The new challenge: Make this $10.3 billion deal work.
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Great Britain&#39;s three-day eventing team have joined forces with France and the USA to challenge the gold medal claims of Germany and Bettina Hoy.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Monday it was buying U.S.-based Grey Global Group in a &#36;1.52 billion cash and stock deal.
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British fire and safety product manufacturer Kidde said it had agreed to a 1.44-billion-pound takeover offer from US group United Technologies Corp.
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Iconic sports-car maker Aston Martin returned to British soil on Monday as US motor giant Ford sold the firm to a consortium here keen to develop the brand made famous by fictional superspy James Bond.
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Advertising giant WPP is to buy US firm Grey Global, in a deal which could be worth as much as Â£750m ($1.3bn). The UK-based group won the auction for Grey Global, the seventh-largest advertiser in the US, against
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British advertising company WPP  said on  Sunday it won an auction for U.S. rival Grey Global, with what  sources familiar with the matter said was a cash-and-stock deal  worth about $1.34 billion.
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US regulators Thursday cleared a plan by Google to acquire online advertising giant DoubleClick, which had sparked concerns about privacy risks and still faces a challenge in the European Union.
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Linx Printing Technologies says it is backing a 86 million pound takeover offer by US firm Danaher after a rival, lower, bidder withdrew.
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A four-year fight over bubbles between mobile phone operators 3 and O2 looks set to boost comparison advertising, following a European Union court opinion allowing companies to use rivals' logos.