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....
The supermarket is big enough to let shareholders have their say
...Novo Nordisk, looking to pep up its biopharma offering, attempted to initiate talks with Belgium’s Ablynx by going public with a takeover proposal....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...On Monday, Belgium’s largest insurer announced a €1.2bn settlement of claims relating to alleged miscommunications over its solvency and subprime mortgage exposure in the run-up to the financial crisis in...
...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
...Konstantinos Apostolatos Partner, AT Kearney SA-NV, Brussels, Belgium...
...In western Europe there is only one market that crosses this threshold — Belgium — where AB InBev has a 53.1 per cent market share....
...In western Europe, only one main market — Belgium — would break the 40 per cent level. Thanks in part to its 649-year history in the country, AB InBev has a market share of 53.1 per cent in Belgium....
...By European standards Belgium has a highly consolidated domestic bank sector....
Opinions differ on retailers’ tie-up amid squeezed margins
...With Ahold headquartered in the Netherlands and Delhaize in Belgium, the national politics would be delicate. To make everyone happy they would probably label the deal a “merger of equals”....
...There is not much crossover between their operations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg....
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