Hints and tips:
...But Direct Line needs to offer some zing to its shareholders if it is to shake off the attentions of Belgium’s Ageas....
...Its domestic division, with operations in France, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg, reported flat revenues in the period....
...This year alone, Cinven, in combination with Hannover Re, has bought a German life insurance portfolio from Generali, while Apollo-owned Athora has bought businesses in Ireland and Belgium....
...Overall, 11 companies in the index have reached board gender parity: Accor, Axa, Bouygues, Diageo, Kering, Legrand, Publicis Group, Sodexo, Terna, Total and Vivendi....
...Thomas Buberl, chief executive of Axa, said the deal was “different to what Axa has done in the past”....
The supermarket is big enough to let shareholders have their say
...They are Deutsche Bank, Nordea, ICBC, UniCredit, Crédit Agricole, ING, Santander, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, UBS, Agricultural Bank of China, AXA, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Bank of China, Credit...
...Novo Nordisk, looking to pep up its biopharma offering, attempted to initiate talks with Belgium’s Ablynx by going public with a takeover proposal....
...Axa may yet end up joining them....
...with the most potential to do better than analysts’ profit expectations because of digitisation were: JPMorgan Chase and SunTrust in the US, Spain’s CaixaBank, Lloyds Banking Group in the UK and KBC in Belgium...
...LCH SA clears derivatives, equities and repo trades, although not interest rate derivatives that are central to the deal....
...When Ahold of the Netherlands announced its merger with Belgium’s Delhaize in 2015, few were surprised. The two supermarket groups had eyed each other across the aisles for years....
...Euronext outpaced interest from US exchanges duo Nasdaq and CME Group for LCH SA, according to the people briefed on the talks....
...ING’s move is the third financial sector restructuring announced in Belgium in recent weeks, following the confirmation of planned job cuts at insurers Axa Belgium and P&V....
...Axa said it had been hit by storms in Germany, as well as floods in France and Belgium....
...Negotiations with suppliers in Belgium and the Netherlands have already started, while meetings with US suppliers will kick off in September....
...Dr Frank Boll Director, Ecofis NV/SA, Rotselaar, Belgium...
...In Belgium, where Delhaize was founded, the combined grocer had to get rid of 13 stores....
...Altice acquired Coditel Brabant in 2003 for €82m and has rebranded the unit SFR Belgium in recent months....
...The settlement also allows management to focus on its purchase of Axa’s business in Portugal, potential acquisitions in Belgium, and its fast-growing business in China; the last one accounts for over a fifth...
...Long Island, New Jersey, February 2014; Elysian Brewing Company, Seattle, January 2015; Breckenridge Brewery, Colorado, December 2015; Camden Town Brewery, London, December 2015; Bosteels, Buggenhout, Belgium...
...It is March, and we meet in London, where he has been persuading investors to back a merger with Belgium’s second-biggest supermarket group, Delhaize....
Regulatory clearance conditional on selling some brands within six months
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