UPDATE 3-UK&#39;s Big Food gets bid approach, shares jump
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Shares in Big Food Group (BFP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) leaped on Friday after the owner of Britain&#39;s Iceland frozen food chain said it had held talks about
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London equities opened in positive territory on Thursday as a raft of bid news helped lift sentiment on the market. The FTSE 100 started trade up 0.3 per cent at 4,740.1 and the mid-cap FTSE 250 stayed flat at 6,755.7.
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Britian'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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Shares in UK food and drink firm Allied Domecq rise on speculation that it could be a takeover target for France's Pernod Ricard.
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J Sainsbury Plc , Britain's third-biggest supermarket operator, said on Friday it had sold a 5 percent stake in Sainsbury's Bank for 21 million pounds ($41 million) to British banking group HBOS Plc  as potential bidders continue to circle the retailer.
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J Sainsbury Plc , Britain&#39;s  third-biggest supermarket group, confirmed it had received a  preliminary bid approach from Qatari investment group Delta  Two.
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Business & money: 9.30am: Shares in the bank jumped almost 3% after recommendation.
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Australia&#39;s S&amp;P/ASX 200 Index rose to a record. Foodland Associated Ltd. surged after Metcash Trading Ltd., the nation&#39;s biggest grocery wholesaler, offered A$846 million ($660 million) for Foodland&#39;s local business.
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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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Shares in J Sainsbury have risen by 3 per cent on mounting rumours of a potential Â£8 billion bid involving Allan Leighton, the serial director.
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Deutsche Boerse has made a 1.3 billion  pound ($2.49 billion) approach for the London Stock Exchange,  and the LSE's rejection of it on Monday left observers doubting  a much better offer would emerge.
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A Qatari investment fund, the Delta Fund, said it was talking with J Sainsbury, the British supermarket operator, about a takeover, the second bid this year for Sainsbury. Delta, which already holds a 25 percent stake in the grocer, said it was in preliminary talks to buy the rest. Sainsbury confirmed it had received an offer, but neither side disclosed a price. Earlier this year the company fended off a Â£10.1 billion ($20.6 billion) bid from a group of buyout funds.
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Britain'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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London equities moved higher in opening trade on Thursday, helped by buoyant financial stocks and a fresh set of bid talk.
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Shares in discount retailer Big Food Group rise more than 11% as the owner of the Iceland frozen food chain reveals it is in bid talks.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- UK food supplier Big Food Group (UK:BFP) posted a 3.3 percent drop in same-store sales for the 13 weeks ending Oct. 1. &quot;Trading has remained tough in the food sector in recent months for
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Manchester United has received a bid approach, boosting its shares as industry sources said U.S. sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer planned a bid of more than 650 million pounds.