Bidding War for Roofing Products Maker Is Over
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ElkCorp said that it planned to accept a bid for the company from Building Materials Corporation of America and terminate a planned sale to the private equity firm Carlyle Group.
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Business & money: Target insurer fails to back bid despite dropping rival's as City anticipates higher offers.
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Business & money: Â· Business reborn after new stock offer accepted  Â· Debt halved as vote ends difficult chapter for firm
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By Matt Garfield, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 2--One of York County's most prominent companies is about to get a new competitor.
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The Home Depot has reached agreement with a shareholder group that had threatened a proxy fight over the companyâs strategy.
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Its legal battles over, the software vendor will focus on sales until the market ripens.
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Clerical workers presented their final offer to shipping companies Saturday after all-night contract talks aimed at preventing a strike at the nation's largest port complex.
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TROY, Mich. ArvinMeritor has sold its Roll Coater subsidiary for 162-point-five (m) million dollars in cash. The Willis Stein and Partners investment firm is buying the coil coating business from the Troy-based automotive supplier.
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PeopleSoft finally gave in yesterday and accepted a $10.3bn (Â£5.4bn) takeover proposal from its larger rival Oracle, ending a pursuit that has lasted 18 months and has been marked by bitter personal insults and a series of courtroom battles.
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An end to the takeover squabble between Oracle and PeopleSoft may not be in sight even though, in what it called a &quot;best and final&quot; offer, Oracle upped its unsolicited bid by 14 percent, to $24 per share.
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Oracle Corp., the world&#39;s second-largest software firm, made what it called its last and best offer for rival PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday in a takeover battle that has now raged for almost a year and a half.
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The U.S. sale of airwaves for   advanced wireless services grossed a record $13.9 billion when   it ended on Monday, and spectrum-hungry wireless carrier   T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and a group of cable companies   were the highest bidders.
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The Warner Music Group, Viacom and the Universal Music Group are the final bidders for the BMG Music Publishing unit.
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UK advertising group WPP beats France's Havas to win a bidding war for US firm Grey Global which could cost as much as Â£750m.
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By Christopher Hope, Business Correspondent, and Harry Wallop (Filed: 22/11/2004). Phoenix Venture Holdings, the owner of loss-making MG Rover, has sold off the last remaining major piece of land at its Longbridge
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British utility firm AWG 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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By Tom Spoth, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 11--In February 2004, a company in Burlington received a $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Army.