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...ATK will first spin-off its firearms operation to shareholders. The remaining defence business will then combine with Orbital, with ATK shareholders owning 54 per cent of the new company....
...However, Mark DeYoung, chief executive of ATK, one of the US’s leading producers of solid-fuel rocket boosters, is confident that the industry will respond....
...You will recall how interested we’ve been in Alliant Techsystems (ATK), the monopoly supplier of various high technology munitions to the US military and certain of its allies....
...Alliant Techsystems, my frumpy old military ammunition contractor, attracted even more buyers who think end-user demand for its products will increase....
...The investors in Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have continued to have their simple faith in the future demand for expendable military munitions rewarded with a stable stock price, despite the supposed imminence...
...Techsystems, and Brazilian gun manufacturer Forjas Taurus....
...You will notice that my favourite ammunition stock, Alliant Techsystems, has doubled over the past year. Apparently, someone knew something....
...You will notice that for all the jettings back and forth to Geneva, the shares of our favourite military ammunition company, Alliant Techsystems, remain high, having doubled over the past year....
...Back in October, I opined that a good hedge against “tail risk” would be an ammunition company stock, specifically Alliant Techsystems (ATK)....
...I’ve also been following the stock price of Alliant Techsystems, normally a boring activity, except that the stock price has been on a tear since August, up about 30 per cent....
...To this point, one of the best-performing defence equities since the industry’s valuation upturn in mid-summer has been Alliant Techsystems (ATK)....
...Techsystems for the satellite technology business of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, a Canadian producer....
...Alliant Techsystems, a US weapons maker, was barred from buying the space division of MacDonald Dettwiler, a Vancouver-based mapping technology group....
...However a year ago, Mr Harper’s government cited national security concerns to reject a proposed US$1.3bn takeover of aerospace company MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates by Alliant Techsystems....
...The government blocked a foreign takeover for the first time in May 2008, refusing to allow Alliant Techsystems, a US weapons maker, to buy the space division of MacDonald Dettwiler, a Vancouver-based mapping...
...Cook currently serves on the boards of Alliant Techsystems (NYSE) and Global Options Group (NASDAQ), and the Corporate Council on Africa....
...Which makes the rejection by the Conservative government of a C$1.3bn ($1.27bn, €800m, £650m) bid by Alliant Techsystems of the US for the space division of MacDonald Dettwiler all the more unusual....
...Canada blocked the sale of the space robotics and satellite arm of the technology company MacDonald-Dettwiler to Alliant Techsystems of the US....
...In April, the Canadian government blocked the US group Alliant Techsystems from purchasing the space technology division of MacDonald Dettwiler – the first transaction ever blocked under the Investment Canada...
...New Zealand has blocked a move by a Canadian state pension fund to buy a stake in Auckland airport, and Canada itself prevented Alliant Techsystems of the US from buying the space technology division of...
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