Corporate Express denies buyout talks with Staples
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Dutch office supplies firm Corporate Express said Tuesday it was not in talks to be bought by U.S. rival Staples, denying a newspaper report and halving a sharp rise in its shares.
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Elan Corp. PLC of Ireland yesterday denied it was involved in merger talks with Biogen Idec Inc. of Cambridge, seeking to squelch rumors of a possible deal just prior to the anticipated approval of Antegren, the two firms' treatment for multiple sclerosis.
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Carlsberg denies claims from bid target Scottish & Newcastle it has breached an joint venture agreement.
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Lear Corp.  said on Wednesday  that India&#39;s Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd. explored a possible bid  for the auto parts maker but will not submit a proposal to  rival billionaire Carl Icahn&#39;s buyout offer.
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Australian travel retailer Flight Center Ltd.  said its planned A$1.62 billion ($1.28 billion) management buy-out did not receive shareholder approval at a meeting on Wednesday.
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Business & money: Â· Airport group denies link to last year's disruption Â· Talk of 2,000 job cuts played down.
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James Crosby, chief executive of HBOS Plc, said yesterday he decided not to bid for Abbey National Plc, HBOS&#39;s largest mortgage-banking rival, because ``cold analysis in the head&#39;&#39; told him not to.
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Carlsberg denies claims from bid target Scottish & Newcastle that it has breached the terms of their joint venture.
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European banking giant UniCredit   on Friday denied a report in Italy's leading business  daily that it might be interested in buying the $47 billion  U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch .
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Office goods supplier Staples proposed a 7.25 euros per share offer for Dutch peer Corporate Express  on Tuesday, valuing it at around 2.5 billion euros ($3.68 billion) and sending its shares soaring.
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The New York Times Co. has rejected a proposal by a group of Boston businessmen to buy The Boston Globe.
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Australia second largest retailer Coles Myer has rejected what it termed a &quot;highly conditional&quot; takeover bid from a buy-out consortium, saying it substantially undervalued the company.
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Leeds United, one of the great names in English soccer, have denied they are negotiating a possible sale of the second division club to British businessman Sebastian Sainsbury.
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Food retailer Sainsbury has refused to comment on a media report that corporate financier George Magan was planning a 5 billion pound takeover of the group.
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Stelios Haji-Ioannou, chairman of EasyJet Plc, said he rejected a $677 million agreement to sell Stelmar Shipping Ltd. because the offer doesn&#39;t reflect recent gains in the value of the oil tanker business he founded in 1992.
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Office goods supplier Staples  proposed a 7.25 euros per share offer for Dutch peer Corporate  Express  on Tuesday, valuing it at around 2.5 billion  euros ($3.68 billion) and sending its shares soaring.
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Software giant denies abusing its market position and says it has no intention of unbundling IE and Windows.