Sentence examples for friendly bid from inspiring English sources
France Telecom launched a friendly bid for TeliaSonera, which operates in the Nordic and Baltic countries and parts of Eurasia.
This week, Arcelor's offer was trumped by a friendly bid of €3.5 billion ($4.1 billion) by Germany's ThyssenKrupp.
The question many are asking is whether H.M.A.'s directors, particularly Mr. Schoen, would welcome even a friendly bid.
Gucci was not convinced, and appealed to Mr Pinault to step in as a "white knight" with a friendly bid.
But on July 18th Gareth Davis, Imperial's boss, seemed to have prevailed with a €16.2 billion ($22.4 billion) friendly bid for Altadis.
LAST weekend, Allianz, a giant insurer, made a friendly bid for Germany's third-biggest bank, Dresdner, of which it already owns more than 20%.
In addition, the development of the user-friendly BID software can be used to guide the development of the OBID software, where multi-factor models can be evaluated, as it is common in many "long-form" questionnaires to encompass several constructs of interest.
Electronic Arts made a friendly failed bid for Take-Two and then tried a hostile tender offer.
The German company failed in a friendly $95 billion bid to buy Telecom Italia last year.
The international banking group HSBC Holdings made a surprise friendly takeover bid for the French bank CCF today in a move to build a strong base in continental Europe.
U.S. sportswear company Quiksilver announced a friendly takeover bid for France's Skis Rossignol on Tuesday in a deal to create a sports equipment and apparel group with revenue of almost 2 billion euros ($2.64 billion).
