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M & A Tue Aug 19, 2008 @ 12:02pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- LONDON (AP) -- British mortgage lender Alliance & Leicester urged shareholders on Tuesday to accept a $2.4 billion takeover offer from Spain's Banco Santander as the best protection for their investment amid extreme financial market turbulence and the det.. Read More

M & A Mon Aug 18, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- CHICAGO and NEW YORK, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CME - News) and NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX - News) today announced that preliminary results indicate the shareholders of both companies have approved the proposed merger.. Read More

M & A Fri Aug 15, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- ATLANTA, Ga. & DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Triarc Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRY; TRY.B), the parent company of Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc., which is the franchisor of the Arby’s® restaurant system, and Wendy's International, Inc. (NYSE: WEN - News).. Read More

M & A Thu Aug 14, 2008 @ 12:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- DALLAS, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peerless Mfg. Co. (Nasdaq: PMFG - News) today announced that, at a special meeting earlier today, its shareholders approved the previously announced holding company reorganization. In the reorganization, Peerless.. Read More

M & A Tue Aug 12, 2008 @ 3:02pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) -- Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc. on Tuesday detailed stockholders allocations in its $220.2 million cash-and-stock takeover of property and casualty insurance provider ProCentury Corp. ProCentury shareholders seeking cash from t.. Read More

M & A Sat Aug 9, 2008 @ 9:01am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- 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.. Read More

M & A Wed Aug 6, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX - News), parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Egan-Jones Proxy have recommended that NYM.. Read More

M & A Wed Aug 6, 2008 @ 9:02am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. Dry Cleaning Corporation (OTCBB:UDRY - News), the nation’s first consolidator of dry cleaning businesses, said in a letter to shareholders that the company is confident that revenue growth for the quarter end.. Read More

M & A Fri Aug 1, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Yahoo's shareholders have re-elected the Internet company's entire board despite hard feelings about the directors' rejection of a takeover offer from Microsoft Corp. Each of the nine directors got at least 78 percent of the shar.. Read More

M & A Fri Aug 1, 2008 @ 3:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Yahoo shareholders are getting their chance to challenge the company's management over its handling of a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp. Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock began by greeting investors at the Internet com.. Read More

M & A Fri Aug 1, 2008 @ 9:01am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Nymex Holdings Inc., which runs the New York Mercantile Exchange, said late Thursday that two proxy advisory firms have recommended shareholders approve its purchase by CME Group Inc. Earlier this year CME moved to buy Nymex in a deal wo.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 31, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE: MAA - News), or Mid-America, reported net income available for common shareholders for the quarter ended June 30, 2008, of $5,427,000, or $0.20 per common sha.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 31, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NYMEX Holdings (NYSE: NMX - News), parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that Glass Lewis & Co. and Proxy Governance, two leading proxy advisory firms, have recommended that N.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 31, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- CHICAGO, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced that Glass Lewis & Co. and Proxy Governance, two leading proxy advisory firms, have recommended that CME Group shareholders vote "FO.. Read More

M & A Wed Jul 30, 2008 @ 6:02pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- SUNRISE, Fla., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioheart, Inc., (Nasdaq: BHRT - News) a company committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases, announced the adopt.. Read More

M & A Wed Jul 30, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- VAN NUYS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cherokee Inc. (NASDAQ: CHKE - News), a leading licensor and global brand management company, announced today that its Board of Directors approved the distribution of a quarterly dividend to shareholders of $0.50 per shar.. Read More

M & A Mon Jul 28, 2008 @ 3:04pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- RESTON, Va., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Greater Atlantic Financial Corp. ("GAFC") (Pink Sheets: GAFC.PK - News) announced today that its Board of Directors has set September 4, 2008, as the date of its Special Meeting of Shareholders to vote on the.. Read More

M & A Mon Jul 28, 2008 @ 9:01am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- TOKYO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- D&M Holdings Inc. (TSE 1:6735) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the tender offer to be launched by an acquisition corporation owned by investment funds advised by Bain Capital Partners LLC ("Bain Capi.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 24, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Radio operator Clear Channel Communications Inc (NYSE:CCU - News) shareholders on Thursday approved its $17.9 billion takeover by private equity funds Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL.UL) and Bain Capital. The vote ends a 20-mo.. Read More

M & A Thu Jul 24, 2008 @ 9:02am neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- TOTOWA, N.J. (AP) -- General Electric's GE Healthcare unit said Thursday it signed a deal to acquire medical products maker Vital Signs Inc. in a deal worth about $860 million. Under the deal, Vital Signs shareholders will receive $74.50 per share in cas.. Read More