Sentence examples for generous premium from inspiring English sources

ICE offered a generous premium for NYSE Euronext from the start, according to people briefed on the matter.

Holders of ordinary AmBev shares get to swap them for Interbrew stock, probably at a generous premium.

Delta is now worth $11.3 billion, indicating that investors are willing to grant a generous premium for bigger airlines.

With a generous premium float now assured, the firm's grand plan is to "marry Chinese momentum to global resources".Rather than going it alone into unfamiliar consumer businesses, Fosun is bringing world-leading brands to China.

Analysts with Exane BNP Paribas wrote: "As this is a friendly takeover at a generous premium and is unlikely to raise antitrust issues given the fragmentation of the enterprise search market, we believe a successful closure is highly likely, with only a minor risk of counterbidding by H.P.'s competitors".

Many of Lazard's 202 working partners are unhappy with Mr Wasserstein's plan to buy out non-working partners for a rumoured $1.25 billion, handing to the families and Eurazeo a generous premium over the likely value of their stakes after an initial public offering (IPO).

They say that lower-income beneficiaries would get more-generous premium support and wealthier individuals would receive less support.

The offer values Verio at $60 a share, a generous 67% premium over the company's share price when the acquisition was announced.

The punter on the street, however, knows far less about Mr Immelt, and remains sceptical: the generous valuation premium that investors lavished on Mr Welch has disappeared under his successor (see chart).That is a serious state of affairs for GE, which exists as a conglomerate (the company prefers "multibusiness") only because the market lets it.

Labour could also lobby for a more generous "pupil premium", the supplementary funding schools receive for each poor pupil they take.Instead, Labour MPs are caught in between, slowly ceding ownership of one of their more far-sighted innovations without repudiating it.

That's a generous risk premium.