The billionaire paid 8,500 pounds for each of the latest 200 shares he has acquired, a discount to the Nov 4. closing price of 9,250 pounds but the same price paid for his five most recent previous purchases, a total of 767 shares bought in five transactions since July 9.
Revenues stalled at $10 million a quarter, and the company was eventually acquired at a discount to its annual revenues.
PAGE A15 Online Brokerage Merger Ameritrade, an online discount brokerage, agreed to acquire a rival, Datek, for $1.29 billion in stock, the companies said.
Suggestions that ICN could acquire Hoffman-La Roche were discounted by several analysts, who noted that the Hoffman family's share ownership would make it virtually impossible to acquire a controlling stake in the Swiss firm.
He acquired at a discounted price a $30m debt owed by Congo-Brazzaville, and in 2002 and 2003 won more than $100m in interest.
The third prong of Beckham's joint-venture strategy is Miami FC, the American football club that his consortium acquired for a discounted $25m, thanks to an option in his playing deal with LA Galaxy.
"They're saying that the sales values of their luxury flats, on this prime riverside site opposite Canary Wharf, on land they acquired at a discounted rate from the GLA, along with a £50m housing grant, would not be enough to cover their costs – which is frankly absurd".
So you might want to look at the league's E.R.A. laggards, identify anyone who is currently healthy and who performed at a high level at some point in the last few years, and acquire him at a discount.
But Roos, whose note was valued at about $35 million when he acquired it at a discount from Chase Manhattan, is now owed $71 million by Coppola due to accumulated interest.
President Bush will call later this week for major changes in Medicare, and as an interim step wants to encourage the elderly to acquire drug discount cards so they can immediately get lower prices at pharmacies, federal officials said today.
