Hints and tips:
...“The rapidly growing tablet market is certainly helping their electronics division and the ceramics business is finally realising the potential of Foseco”, the foundry supplier which Cookson bought in 2007...
...Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Cazenove advised Cookson, with Lazard and Collins Stewart looking after Foseco....
...Cookson, the ceramics and precious metals group, gained 3.6 per cent to 618½p on hopes that it would get regulatory approval for its £500m acquisition of Foseco, up 0.1 per cent to 289¼p....
...There was also the $1bn approach from Cookson Group for Foseco, both of which supply products for the steel industry. Well, it’s not quite the $70bn-odd days we once had....
...News of the approach ignited the rest of the sector, with Cookson rising 1.1 per cent to 526½p, Foseco up 0.8 per cent to 160¾p and Charter 2.2 per cent higher at 77½p....
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