M&amp;S buys Per Una for UKÂ£125m
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The move comes as the company tries to win back choosy high street customers amid fierce competition from the likes of Next and supermarket chain Asda.
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European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti has given the green light to the UKÂ£8.75bn takeover bid by Spain&#39;s Santander for the UK&#39;s Abbey National.
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Business & money: Â· Credit crunch creates Â£210bn backlog of buyouts Â· US sub-prime crisis claims more jobs and firms
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LONDON : Marks and Spencer, the struggling British retailer, began buying back more than one quarter of its shares in the biggest tender offer ever seen in Britain.
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Il colosso statunitense compra 19,9% del gruppo britannico
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Business & money: Alliance & Leicester and Britannia building society double minimum deposit from first-time buyers
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Marks &amp; Spencer today set the price for its record share buyback above market expectations, at 362p per share. The retailer said demand for the Â£2.
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Â· Company faces insolvency without Â£400m cash boostÂ· Public-private deal was driven by Treasury
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) confirms it is buying its Italian equivalent, Milan's Borsa Italiana, for more than 1.5bn euros.
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LONDON - Food and clothing chain Marks &amp; Spencer PLC said Tuesday it had bought the per una clothing brand from businessman George Davies for 125 million pounds ($223 million).
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By Alistair Osborne, Associate City Editor (Filed: 17/12/2004). United Technologies Corporation clinched the acquisition of Kidde yesterday after sweetening its 165p-a-share offer for the fire protection group with a final dividend of 2p per share.
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Demand for a 2.3-billion-pound share buyback by Marks &amp; Spencer has been strong, the retailer says after pricing the move above market expectations at 362 pence per share.
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Sports Direct sells Umbro shares worth Â£56m to Nike and agrees to back a bid for the football kit maker.
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Two leading names in the travel industry were today bought for Â£1.1 billion dollars (Â£563 million) - the second major UK deal by US giant Cendant this month.
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London - Marks and Spencer on Tuesday announced it had acquired the &quot;per una&quot; clothing brand for Â£125 million (R1.44 billion), in a deal the group hopes will help to lift falling sales.
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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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The Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group, a British nonlife insurer, offered 6.4 billion kroner ($1.2 billion) to buy the stock it does not already own in Codan, a nonlife insurer in Denmark. Royal and Sun bid 605 kroner apiece for the shares, a premium of 15 percent over the closing price Wednesday of 525 kroner. Royal and Sun completed the sale of operations in the United States in March to focus on British and Scandinavian businesses and on emerging markets.