Alexza to explore strategic options

2011-12-16T18:30:06Z

(Reuters) - Alexza Pharmaceuticals Inc said it will explore options including sale of assets, strategic business combination, or partnerships.

The company has also given a 60-day notice of layoffs to all its employees to conserve cash to support operations.

Alexza expects to significantly reduce its w...

London's Big Bang at 25, origin of today's financial universe

2011-10-27T08:00:10Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Twenty five years ago, digital clock leaves flipped over to 9 a.m. and the London Stock Exchange opened to computerized trading in a deregulatory coup that transformed British investment banking -- the "Big Bang."

Banks with long histories but small balance s...

Flash sales pioneer Vente-Privee targets U.S.

2011-10-19T09:00:51Z

PARIS (Reuters) - Vente-Privee, the French start-up that pioneered the now much-imitated model of on-line flash sales, plans to launch its U.S. website by mid-November in partnership with American Express and aims to reach $500 million in sale...

VW steps up investment in new models, factories

2011-09-16T12:30:21Z

German auto giant Volkswagen said Friday it would boost investment sharply over the next five years as part of its ambitions to become the world's biggest car maker by 2018.

VW said in a statement it had earmarked 62.4 billion euros ($86.1 billion) for investment between 2012 and 2016, representing an increase of almost 21 percent over the preceding five-year investment plan for the period from 2011 until 2015.

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Microsoft to win from Google Motorola buy: Acer

2011-09-02T10:00:12Z

BERLIN (Reuters) - Microsoft will be the winner in Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility as the d...

London Olympic Village sold for $903.5 million

2011-08-12T06:30:19Z

LONDON (Reuters) - London's Olympic Village has been sold for $903.5 million to a Delancey and Qatari Diar joint venture, leaving UK taxpayers to pay about $448 million linked to the development of the site.

The deal sees the joint venture acquire homes on the Olympic Village site in Stratford, east London, and its ...

Analysis: Solar specialists embrace tieups to resist squeeze out

2011-07-25T00:00:05Z

HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Grappling with sliding prices and margins, solar specialists, or stand-alone makers of wafers and cells, risk being squeezed out of the market by their fully integrated Chinese rivals who are investing billions of dollars in technology.

The new reality is forcing solar specialists, mostly Taiwanese, which have long had ...

News Corp will have to answer questions in Australia

2011-07-20T02:00:22Z

CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Australian arm of News Corp will have to answer "hard questions" in Australia following the growing phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom

Garmin sees Navigon buy boosting European auto ops

2011-06-15T11:00:10Z

BERLIN (Reuters) - Garmin agreed to buy Germany-based navigation firm Navigon earlier this week mostly to expand its business with carmakers in

LivingSocial buys France's Dealissime.com

2011-06-01T13:30:23Z

Online bargain site LivingSocial is buying French daily deal site Dealissime.com in a bid to take on Groupon in France.

The Washington-based LivingSocial announced on Wednesday that it was buying Dealissime and an online display advertising company ...

HMV to sell Waterstone's to Russian billionaire

2011-05-20T07:30:35Z

Britain's struggling entertainment group HMV announced on Friday a deal to sell its book shop chain Waterstone's to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53 million (60 million euros, $86 million).

HMV said it was selling Britain's biggest book chain to A&NN Capital Fund Management Ltd., a company controlled by a trust in which Mamut has...

Boards play it safe as new M&A cycle begins

2011-04-04T05:30:17Z

LONDON (Reuters) - A nascent recovery in global dealmaking, focused on safer deals with clear strategic logic, probably marks the start of several years of rising mergers and acquisitions, senior bankers told the Reuters Global M&A Summit.

Still, while company earnings and balance sheets are strong, bankers said economic fragility, natural disaster, and political tumu...

GE continues energy M&A spate with $3.2 billion deal

2011-03-29T05:30:13Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co reached a $3.2 billion agreement to acquire a maker of automation systems used in the oil and gas sector, marking the latest in a series of deals to boost its presence in the energy industry.

The largest U.S. conglomerate said its acquisition...

China's Bright Food talks up Yoplait bid

2011-03-04T14:30:41Z

China's Bright Food Group has said a tie-up with France's Yoplait would bring expansion opportunities in the massive Chinese market, as it promotes a bid for a stake in the French company.

Bright Food has been rebuffed in a number of efforts to expand ...

London, Toronto stock exchanges unveil merger

2011-02-09T08:30:26Z

The London and Toronto stock exchanges announced a landmark merger on Wednesday to create a one of the world's biggest trading platforms that will dominate raw materials and energy.

"London Stock Exchange Group plc and ...

Harry Ramsden owner bids for Goodfella's pizza firm

2011-01-22T07:30:08Z

The owner of the Harry Ramsden's fish and chip restaurants has made a 342 million pounds bid for Goodfella's Pizza-maker Northern Foods.

Northern's management are recommending that shareholders accept the offer, made by Ranjit Singh Boparan's investment company Boparan Holdings on Friday night.

Previously, Northern's management had recommended that shareholders vote for the merger with BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp won unconditional European Union regulatory approval on Wednesday for its bid to acquire pay-TV operator

German regulator approves ACS takeover bid

2010-11-30T04:00:21Z

German regulator approves Spain's ACS takeover bid of Germany's Hochtief

Germany's regulatory agency said Tuesday it has approved a euro2.7 billion ($3.55 billion) takeover bid for Germany's largest builder, Hochtief AG, by Spanish construction and services giant ACS.

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Kraft CEO makes first visit to Cadbury base

2010-10-08T11:47:10Z

Kraft CEO makes first visit to Cadbury's historic Bourneville factory

Kraft Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld made her first visit to British chocolate maker Cadbury's historic base in Bournville, England, on Friday to meet management and employees.

Rosenfeld was...

British travel groups unveil merger

2010-10-08T10:59:34Z

British holiday firm Thomas Cook and the Co-operative announced on Friday a merger of their stores and foreign exchange businesses, to create the nation's biggest high-street travel chain.

The new company will be 70-percent owned by Thomas Cook and 30-percent owned by the Co-operative, and will have more than 1,200 shops...

Travel groups unveil merger

2010-10-08T10:59:32Z

Holiday firm Thomas Cook and the Co-operative announced on Friday a merger of their stores and foreign exchange businesses, to create the nation's biggest high-street travel chain.

The new company will be 70-percent owned by Thomas Cook and 30-percent owned by the Co-operative, and will have more than 1,200 shops across ...

Thomas Cook and Co-op to merge travel agents

2010-10-11T15:51:52Z

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2010-10-06T10:10:11Z

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UK minister attacks pursuit of quick profits

2010-09-22T05:45:13Z

UK minister announcing review of corporate governance, takeovers and short-termism

Pursuit of the quick buck is undermining Britain's economy, a government minister said Wednesday as he announced a review of corporate governance, executive pay and takeovers.

Vince Cable, who heads the Department for Business, I...

Spain's ACS launches bid for Hochtief

2010-09-16T05:45:15Z

Spanish construction firm ACS launches all-share takeover bid for Germany's Hochtief

Spanish construction and services giant ACS said Thursday it has launched an all-share takeover bid for Germany's largest builder, Hochtief AG, in which it already holds a nearly 30 percent stake.

ACS announced in a filing with Spanish regulators it will offer eig...

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2010-10-06T05:41:15Z

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Korea National Oil Corp. says it won't raise its hostile takeover bid for Britain's Dana Petroleum.

The statement released Thursday f...

Glaxo hires Goldman Sachs banker as new CFO

2010-10-13T15:04:50Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline insisted there would be no change to its cautious stance on deal-making, after announcing it had hired one of Europe's top M&A bankers as its new finance chief.

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2010-10-10T23:17:19Z

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2010-09-09T00:08:39Z

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Hospital Food is still not up to scratch

2010-10-13T23:02:00Z

In2town Lifestyle Magazine reports that hospital food is still something that patients fear when they go into hospital

In a sign that the jokes about hospital food are right, sales stats from the UK's leading online takeaway portal show that patients across the UK are regularly having takeaway food delivered direct ...

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2010-11-02T12:26:48Z

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Sanofi announces $18.5 billion bid for Genzyme

2010-08-29T09:30:11Z

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - France's Sanofi-Aventis on Sunday publicly disclosed its $18.5 billion, $69-per-share cash offer for Genzyme Corp after failing to engage the biotechnology company i...

Klesch acquires German Shell oil refinery

2010-11-02T13:48:44Z

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Takeover Talk Drives European Stocks Higher

2010-11-02T12:26:22Z

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Indian energy giant may counter Vedanta

2010-08-18T00:15:22Z

India's state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) may counter an offer worth up to 9.6 billion dollars by Britain's Vedanta Resources for mining assets in India, a report said on Wednesday.

Vedanta said Monday it would buy a controlling stake in the Indian unit of Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday it had agreed to sell 318 branches to Spanish group Santander in a long-awaited deal.

"RBS announces today that it has agreed to sell 318 branches and associated assets and liabilities to Santander UK plc for a...

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2010-11-02T12:11:05Z

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Carrefour Q2 sales up 6.3 percent

2010-07-15T10:30:18Z

Carrefour second quarter revenue rises 6.3 percent thanks to gains in Latin America and Asia

French retailer Carrefour SA said Thursday that second quarter revenue rose 6.3 percent thanks to strong growth in Latin America and Asia.

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2010-10-09T18:19:43Z

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Spain's Sabadell launches takeover for smaller rival

2010-06-25T11:16:24Z

Spain's Banco Sabadell said Friday its board had agreed to launch a takeover for smaller rival Banco Guipuzcoano in the first such operation between two listed Spanish banks since the start of the financial crisis at the end of 2008.

Banco Sabadell is offering five shares and five mandatory convertible bonds for every eight ordinary shares of Guipuzcoano, it said in a s...

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2010-11-02T14:05:25Z

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Cognizant buys Galileo, French IT consultant

2010-09-22T13:53:06Z

Cognizant Technology buys French IT testing and consulting company Galileo

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. said Thursday it has acquired Galileo Performance, a Paris-based company that does testing and consulting on c...

Partnerships with fulfilment specialists will help embed market positions and support growth

2010-10-11T14:38:47Z

Resonations within business communities suggest companies now feel more confident than ever that economic recovery will really start to gain momentum. Fuelled by the fact that the UK elections have been completed and a new government is in situ, stability will be key to support development.

Business growth needs to be supported with proactive marketing and efficient logistical management to ensure market positions are firmed up for companies. The business may begin with the manufac...

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2010-10-27T08:55:05Z

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Spain's savings banks sowed seeds of own destruction

2010-06-16T11:19:15Z

GUADALAJARA, Spain (Reuters) - The ultra modern 12th-floor board room of savings bank Caja Guadalajara offers a bird's eye view of the empty industrial estate around it, a constant reminder of Spain's worst economic crisis for 50 years.

"We moved our headquarters in December from the town center to these offices, thinking ...

Six Spanish savings banks planning alliance

2010-06-12T12:28:09Z

Six regional savings banks in Spain on Friday announced they are negotiating an alliance that will help them avoid insolvency, in line with appeals by the central bank.

Caja Madrid, Caja Insular de Ahorros de Canarias, Caixa Laietana, Caja de Avila, Caja Segovia et Caja Rioja are negotiating "the possible formation of an institutional system of protect...

Britain Tuition Tangle

2011-01-04T08:04:09Z

FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 file photo of Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, as they react as their car is attacked by angry protesters in London. British police released a video Tuesday Jan. 4, 2011 of ...

Germany Partial Solar Eclipse

2011-01-05T08:02:05Z

A partial solar eclipse is pictured through clouds in Albershausen, southwestern Germany, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/dapd, Daniel Kopatsch)

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2011-01-05T08:06:21Z

In this photo released by the Northern Territory Police, four German tourists rest on the roof of their vehicle as they wait for their rescue from the flooded Magela Creek, near Jabiru, Australia, Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Drenching rain that started before Christmas has flooded an area the size of France and Real Madrid's Kaka from Brazil runs with the ball during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Getafe at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez stadium in Getafe, Spain Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol, right, of Spain and his brother Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol of Spain tangles under the basket during the first half of their

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