Sentence examples for takeover cost from inspiring English sources

Exact details of how much the takeover cost were not published.

The speed and ruthlessness of this takeover cost Naipaul many friends ('Friendship has not been important to me,' he told French grandly).

Why, Mr Buffett famously asked, should shareholders in company A want to own an interest in company B at a takeover cost that is twice the market price they would have paid if they made direct purchases of company B on their own?Investors are somewhat sceptical too.

Reed Elsevier, the Dutch half of the largest publisher of scientific journals, is being taken to court by a shareholder interest group contesting how the company accounted for takeover costs last year.

Adjusted for excluding NCC takeover costs, PNC would have earned $132 million, or $0.32 per share.

Excluding May Department Stores takeover costs of $60 million, or 13 cents per share, Macy's said it earned 29 cents per share, versus 33 cents in the 2006 second quarter.

Strong sales of health and beauty products and post-takeover cost cutting helped Alliance Boots buck the retail gloom and report a 20% rise in trading profit in its first year as a private company.

With Fairfax's share price almost at an all-time low, a full takeover would cost her relatively little.

(State takeover would cost the state about $1 billion when it can least afford it, Pataki administration officials said).

In May, he purchased Manchester United, the English soccer club, in a hostile takeover that cost him $1.5 billion-the moneymoneverver paid for a sports franchise.

In an emotive appeal to MPs, Soriot even warned the potential disruption posed by the takeover could cost lives, by slowing the development of vital cancer drugs.