Starwood to bid for UK's Whitbread: report
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U.S. real estate investment firm  Starwood Capital is in talks with advisers to launch a bid  worth around 3 billion pounds ($5.5 billion) for UK leisure  group Whitbread Plc , the Financial Mail on Sunday  reported.
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EMI Group, which recently outlined a painful restructuring plan, has made a bid for independent music label Chrysalis Group PLC, a newspaper reported Friday.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - Private equity and trade buyers are lining up bids for Dutch retailer Ahold's  3 billion euro ($3.8 billion) U.S. Foodservice division, British newspaper The Business reported on Sunday.
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Nasdaq  may sell its stake in the London Stock Exchange  to Borse Dubai and make a joint bid with the Gulf exchange for Nordic exchange owner OMX , The Daily Telegraph said on Monday.
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Tesco, Britain&#039;s biggest retailer, is considering an 800-million-euro (1.026-billion-dollar) bid for the Polish retail arm of French rival Casino.
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Cinven and Texas Pacific Group (TPG) -- the British and US private equity firms -- are considering a rival consortium bid for supermarket chain J Sainsbury.
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The Whitbread leisure group announced on Monday the billion-pound sale of its David Lloyd gymnasium chain to a consortium comprising property firm London Regional Holdings and HBOS.
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U.S. investment firm General Atlantic Partners and other venture capital firms are in talks with Britain's Northgate Information Solutions Plc  over a possible takeover that could be worth more than 600 million pounds ($1.13 billion), a newspaper reported on Thursday.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corp. approached Time Warner (TWX) , Germany&#39;s Bertelsmann and Walt Disney (DIS) as potential bidders for BBC Worldwide, its commercial sales and
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Business & money: Sir Richard Branson has promised to submit a bid for Northern Rock by Monday's government deadline
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Nasdaq  may sell its stake in  the London Stock Exchange  to Borse Dubai and make a  joint bid with the Gulf exchange for Nordic exchange owner OMX  , The Daily Telegraph said on Monday.
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LONDON/NEW DELHI  - Virgin Group will try to win over shareholders with a sweetened bid for Northern Rock on the eve of a speech by the British Chancellor to Parliament about the struggling UK bank, an unsourced Sunday Times report said.
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LONDON : Britain&#39;s third-biggest grocer, J Sainsbury, is the target of a five-billion-pound (7.2-billion-euro, 9.1-billion-dollar) takeover bid.
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Financial Times publisher Pearson Plc  is seeking partners to make a possible bid for Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , the Journal reported on its Web site on Friday.
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) discusses a $2bn bid for its Italian counterpart, say sources quoted by Reuters.
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UK tour firm MyTravel is in talks with First Choice on buying its main package holiday arm, a report says.
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Singapore's state-owned Temasek Holdings  has approached Nasdaq  to buy its 30 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange , a newspaper reported on Sunday.