Interflora votes on takeover bid
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Interflora stakeholders are meeting to decide whether to accept a buyout offer from investment group 3i.
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Shareholders at Lear Corporation are to vote on a $2.9bn buyout offer from billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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The London Stock Exchange today said it had rejected a Â£1.35 billion takeover approach from German rival Deutsche Boerse. Shares in the LSE have risen 25 per cent in recent weeks as investors anticipated a possible takeover bid.
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The company is ready to handle competition from generics.
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The aluminum producer Alcoa said in a statement that it would continue to pursue its $27.4 billion cash and stock bid for a rival, Alcan, despite the Canadian companyâs rejection of the offer. But Alcoaâs chairman and chief executive, Alain J. P. Belda, said that the company would not enhance the proposal, which Alcan called inadequate. âWe have studied Alcanâs response and have not seen anything that would lead us to re-evaluate our offer,â Mr. Belda said. He also rejected suggestions by Alcan that Alcoa would have difficulty obtaining antitrust approval for the merger and urged Alcanâs board to resume its examination of the bid.
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Investors in Alliance Boots, the British pharmacy giant, have voted overwhelmingly for an agreed takeover by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in what is Europe&#39;s largest buyout by a private equity firm, it emerged Thursday.
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London Stock Exchange Plc, Europe&#39;s third-largest exchange by market value, said it received a 1.35 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) takeover offer from Deutsche Boerse AG, the second attempt
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Shareholders on Monday wrap up voting on a merger deal that would combine the parents of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade to create the world's largest derivatives exchange.
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Business & money: Cable company says it has received a takeover bid and is considering potential sale.
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NEW YORK, October 8  - Oracle Corporation (ORCL.NAS) is considering altering its takeover bid for the rival business software company, PeopleSoft, with discussions leaning towards a potential decline in the current offer of $7.
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Business & money: Takeover battle looms after investment fund backed by government of Qatar confirms it is considering a Â£12bn bid for the supermarket chain.
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The pan-European stock market operator Euronext said that its shareholders were to vote on December 19 on whether to approve a merger with the New York Stock Exchange.
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Shareholders gave their blessing on Friday for Belgium&#39;s Interbrew to buy Brazil&#39;s AmBev (ABV) in a deal valued at about 8 billion euros
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Two major PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders yesterday indicated they would split their votes on whether to accept Oracle Corp's $8.8 billion hostile takeover bid.
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The vote by the shareholders of world number four gold miner Harmony on the group&#39;s bid for rival Gold Fields on late Friday morning is crucial to the continuation of Harmony&#39;s daring bid.
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Business & money: Deal could trigger takeover bid for seller Whitbread.
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Brewer Scottish & Newcastle said Thursday it was in talks with a view to being taken over by Danish group Carlsberg and Dutch peer Heineken for 7.8 billion pounds.