Harmony figures help bid for rival
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HARMONY Gold Miningâs hopes of winning control of the rival Gold Fields appeared to be boosted yesterday, as Harmony swung to a first-quarter profit at operating level.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- South African mining group Harmony (UK:HRM) said it would &quot;shortly post&quot; a proposed $8.1 billion, stock-based takeover of South African miner Gold Fields (GFI) .
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The board and management of world number six gold miner Harmony are driven by value creation for Harmony shareholders, Harmony Chief Executive Bernard Swanepoel said in a letter released on Wednesday.
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Britain's Resolution  and Friends Provident  have confirmed they are in advanced merger talks to create a group worth almost 9 billion pounds, rekindling hopes of consolidation across the insurance sector.
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Johannesburg - South Africa&#39;s Harmony Gold Mining on Monday announced that it to launch a takeover bid for Gold Fields, offering a 29-percent premium for its entire share capital to create the world&#39;s leading gold mining group.
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JOHANNESBURG: South Africaâs Harmony Gold has pounced on bigger domestic rival Gold Fields with an unsolicited, all-share takeover bid worth about $8bn to create the worldâs biggest gold producer.
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South Africa&#39;s largest domestic gold producer Harmony will reportedly make a surprise takeover bid on Monday for the world&#39;s fourth biggest, Gold Fields.
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Business News, Johannesberg: South African gold producer Harmony has bid to take over larger rival Gold Fields, a merger that would create the world&#39;s biggest gold producer.
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LONDON  - Tuesday's announcement that Princes William and Harry are organizing a pop concert to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of their mother, Princess Diana, is set to prompt a bidding frenzy among broadcasters for the U.K. and international television rights.
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Business & money: Â· Group in talks with banks as deadline loomsÂ· Only increased offer will win over Rio Tinto board
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The chance of Harmony succeeding in its hostile bid for Gold Fields was starting to fade, analysts said yesterday after Harmony received about a third of the shares it had hoped
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South Africa's Harmony Gold has made an unsolicited 52.9 billion rand (&#36;8.2 billion) bid to take over bigger domestic rival Gold Fields to create the world's biggest gold producer, it said on Monday.
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Harmony, the South African gold producer, yesterday lost the latest round in the battle to gain control of its rival, Gold Fields, when the South African court said both stages of its bid must be approved by the competition authorities.
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Gold Fields, Harmony and Norilsk Nickel are discussing alternative transactions to the current offer by Harmony for Gold Fields - and shareholders should act cautiously in the meantime, Gold Fields announced on Monday.
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The move by the consortium of banks, which is led by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, is intended to help it prevail in a bidding war with Barclays.
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The provision made for a white knight offer in the irrevocable undertaking given by Russia&#39;s Norilsk Nickel to Harmony Gold, which is attempting to swallow its larger local rival
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Harmony&#39;s bid to create the world&#39;s biggest gold miner suffered a blow yesterday when the first part of its offer for South African rival Gold Fields received a lukewarm reception from shareholders.