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...One thing to start: Bill Ackman, a shareholder in United Technologies, has come out against the proposed merger with Raytheon in a letter to the company’s chief executive, Greg Hayes....
...The ownership split is based on the profits each company contributes....
...The RD180 engines that powered the Atlas V rocket off the launch pad were built not by one of the US’s domestic aerospace companies but by Russia’s NPO Energomash, currently maker of some of the world’s...
...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....
...and defence contractor Alliant Techsystems, and Brazilian gun manufacturer Forjas Taurus....
...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...
...In 2008, in a display of suspicion between two of the world’s closest trading partners, Ottawa invoked for the first time provisions in its investment law to block a $1.3bn bid by the US company Alliant...
...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...
...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...
...The business aviation side was boosted further after the company was bought in 1980 by Raytheon, the US defence and technology giant....
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