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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Allied Waste Industries Inc. rose Friday on improving prospects that suitor Republic Services Inc. will proceed with a planned buyout of the nation's second largest trash hauler.
Shares of Phoenix-based Allied Waste advanced 27..
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Trash hauler Republic Services Inc. has again rejected a sweetened buyout offer from rival Waste Management Inc., saying its bid still undervalues the company.
Republic said late Thursday it sent a letter to Waste Management..
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Waste Management Inc., the nation's largest trash hauler, has boosted its unsolicited buyout offer for rival Republic Services Inc. by about 9 percent to $37 per share, or $6.73 billion.
The sweetened offer announced on Monday escalates..
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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) -- E Com Ventures Inc., which owns Perfumania perfume shops, said Friday its shareholders have approved its buyout of Model Reorg Inc.
The buyout of Model Reorg, a diversified wholesale and retail fragrance company controlled by two of..
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NEW YORK (AP) -- ImClone Systems Inc.'s board of directors said Monday cancer drug partner Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s $4.5 billion buyout offer "substantially undervalues" the company, with Chairman Carl Icahn personally against the deal.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. antitrust regulators have cleared Invitrogen Corp.'s buyout of Applied Biosystems Inc., the companies said Tuesday.
Invitrogen, of Carlsbad, Calif., agreed on June 12 to buy Applied Biosystems for $38 per share, or $6.7 billion. The..
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s $3.3 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. will mean millions of subscribers will be able to receive programming from both services, while executives say it will create huge cost savings..
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Cleveland-Cliffs' largest shareholder may attempt to scuttle a proposed $8 billion buyout of coal company Alpha Natural Resources Inc.
Hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners owns 18.4 percent of the iron ore producer's stock, giving..
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ST. PAUL (AP) -- The state Board of Animal Health says 6,800 cattle will be slaughtered or removed from a region in northwest Minnesota that has been infected with bovine tuberculosis.
The agency says it received 45 buyout contracts from cattle producers..
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A law firm said on Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit on behalf of Genentech Inc (NYSE:DNA - News) shareholders over the proposed buyout of the company by its majority shareholder, Roche Holding AG (VTX:ROG.VX - News).
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DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. is giving hourly workers at 17 facilities another round of buyout and early retirement offers in an ongoing effort to match production with slumping sales.
The Dearborn automaker said Monday the buyout offers begin July 28..
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NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S.-traded shares of BCE Inc. jumped on Monday, the first trading day after Canada's largest telecommunications company said it has agreed to the terms of a $35 billion sale to a group of investors.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The brewer InBev SA on Tuesday urged Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. shareholders to challenge the biggest U.S. beer company's rejection of its $46 billion buyout bid.
InBev CEO Carlos Brito insisted in a statement that his offer of $6..
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Sourcefire Inc. jumped Wednesday after Barracuda Networks Inc. disclosed it has raised its buyout bid for the network security and information management system developer.
Privately held Barracuda said late Tuesday it raised it..
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Circuit City Stores Inc. stayed mum on Tuesday about whether a buyout is in the future for the consumer electronics retailer, but an activist investor expects an announcement of a possible sale within the next month.
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WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) -- Steelmaker and distributor Esmark Inc. said it's giving the United Steelworkers until Thursday to organize a buyout bid for the company.
Esmark described the extension as a goodwill gesture to the labor union, which has balked at..
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Digimarc Corp. jumped Monday after the digital security company received a $300 million takeover bid from French conglomerate Safran SA, above an existing buyout offer from another company.
In March, L-1 Identity Solutions had..
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Getty Images Inc. said its shareholders voted in favor of a $2.1 billion buyout by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC, the leading seller of stock photography and video footage said Friday.
Getty said about 75 percent of the share..
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OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - BCE Inc. (Toronto:BCE.TO - News; NYSE:BCE - News), Canada's largest telecom company, won the backing of the country's Supreme Court on Friday to proceed with the world's biggest leveraged buyout, but financing could still trip..
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TORONTO (AP) -- BCE Inc. on Friday won the right to go ahead with the largest leveraged buyout in history, a $35 billion deal that the telecommunications company's bondholders fought, saying it would reduce their holdings to junk.
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