Sentence examples for open takeover from inspiring English sources

Scottish & Newcastle, Britain's last major brewer, is set to fall into foreign hands after it finally agreed to open takeover talks with Carlsberg and Heineken, rivals seeking to carve the business up between themselves.

Two years ago yesterday, the billionaire investor Robert Tchenguiz is said to have roundly cheered a decision by private equity firm CVC to abandon its efforts to open takeover talks with J Sainsbury after the supermarket's board rejected a £10.1bn bid proposal.

Metal Bulletin has grudgingly opened takeover talks with Euromoney Institutional Investor, after a revised proposal.

Tracker funds have to find money to buy IPOs and so sell other stocks, which might leave the latter open to takeover.

BMW says it is keeping its eyes open for takeover targets, though it has had its fingers burnt by acquisitions in the past.

Xstrata signaled in December that it was open for takeover proposals when the chief executive, Michael L. Davis, said he had started discussions with several parties.

At the very least, May and Hammond should draw an early lesson from the bid for ARM: if you are going to abolish or refine the UK's open doors takeover regime, get on with it.

Its recent purchase by Kraft Foods, an American company, has come to illustrate a complex set of anxieties: that Britain will lose jobs and skills, and that whereas British firms are open to takeover, their foreign predators are often protected against becoming prey themselves.

It must be recognized that such a posture, if adopted in the past, would have meant that some growing companies would have been open to takeovers and their management subjected to all sorts of pressures long before they would have implemented fully their business model.

Burdened by debt at the top and penury at the bottom and open to takeovers by anyone who can claim to have a personal acquaintance with the Royal Bank of Ruritania, the Premier League has become a plutocratic competition, which only a small handful of teams can hope to win, while the rest simply struggle to keep up and stay up.

Chesapeake Energy's largest shareholder urged the company on Monday to be open to any takeover offers.