NEW YORK, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc
plans to announce on Monday it will extend its tender
offer for shares of Diedrich Coffee Inc by 30 days, a
person with knowledge of the situation said, signaling its
anticipation that regulato…
NEW YORK, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co is looking to sell what is
left of its Miramax film unit, which could bring in more than $700 million, The New
York Times reported on Sunday, citing a mergers and acquisitions expert with knowledge
of the pr…
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 31 (Reuters) – The heads of three
of the largest private equity firms in the world expressed
(Corrects paragraphs 1, 3 and 8 to show that story is
attributed to energy news service SparkSpread, not Spark
Spreads)
LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – London-listed mining group
Vedanta Resources is considering a spinoff of up to six
of its businesses to boost its overall market value, the
Independent newspaper reported, citing unnamed bankers.
LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – British utility Northumbrian
Water could receive a 1.7 billion pound takeover offer
from a Canadian pension fund, the Sunday Times reported, citing
unnamed sources.
SAO PAULO, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Braskem ,
Latin America’s largest petrochemical company, may unveil as
soon as Monday the purchase of U.S.-based Sunoco Inc.’s
petrochemical assets for about $400 million, O Estado de
S.Paulo newspaper reported on Saturda…
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 30 (Russia) – JCDecaux ,
Europe’s largest outdoor advertising group, sees an opportunity
to crack the lucrative Russian market in 2012, its co-Chief
Executive Jean-Francois Decaux told Reuters on Saturday….
NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) – BlackRock Inc said on
Friday that Kendrick Wilson, a former U.S. Treasury Department
adviser and veteran investment banker, will join the world’s
biggest asset manager as vice chairman and member of the
chairman’s office.
LISBON, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Brazilian construction group
Camargo Correa on Friday withdrew a proposal to merge its cement
operations with Portugal’s Cimpor , the target of a
takeover bid by Brazilian steelmaker CSN , but
indicated it was still intereste…