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...But as part of the agreement, programmes from Time Warner’s various networks – including TNT, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, truTV, Boomerang and Turner Classic Movies – will be made available live...
...Shares in the US parcel delivery company rose 3 per cent to $171.16 as investors cheered its €4.4bn bid for European rival TNT Express....
...Time Warner will be left firmly focused on television brands such as CNN, HBO and TNT, and the Warner Bros film and television production business. It has no plans to drop the first half of its name....
...(Wall Street Journal) Brussels formally blocks abandoned UPS takeover of TNT: EU competition commissioner ‘surprised’ that UPS abandoned bid two weeks ago....
...TNT postal group....
...When TNT Express was spun off last year, its shares were trading at about €9. PostNL holds a 29.9 per cent stake in TNT....
...TNT Express’s share price has fallen 38 per cent since the demerger on disappointing profit margins, and shareholders say management has been slow to shift gears....
...PostNL officially says it has confidence in TNT Express’s current board....
...(Financial Times) - UPS has agreed a deal to buy its European rival TNT Express in a takeover that is likely to value the Dutch delivery company at about €5bn, people familiar with the talks said....
...It is more than two years since Mr Bewkes announced his big bet on TV Everywhere, which lets cable and satellite subscribers watch programmes from the likes of TNT and Cartoon Network on various devices,...
...Jeff Bewkes, chairman and chief of Time Warner, said that while advertising was still “pretty strong” in its cable networks, such as TNT, it was “a little softer” in its magazine division....
...Jana, which manages about $3bn in invested and committed capital, pressed for the break-up last year of TNT, a Dutch logistics company, and this year raised its stake in El Paso, a natural gas company that...
...Jana is likely to push for TNT to be sold, ditching its standalone strategy....
...TNT shares closed 2.8 per cent higher at €20.91....
...As the firm’s handling so far of its stake in TNT might indicate, its approach is co-operative rather than offensive. Jana was founded by Barry Rosenstein in 2001....
...As Tuesday’s announcement of Jana Partners’ 5 per cent stake in TNT shows, reports on the death of hedge fund activism have been greatly exaggerated....
...News Corp’s Fox has demanded fees of $1 per subscriber to carry its free-to-air stations, arguing that pay TV networks such as Disney’s ESPN are paid up to $4 and Time Warner’s TNT are paid $1 in spite of...
...The two are among each other’s biggest customers, with TNT’s top-rated The Closer produced by Warner....
...activity including Dow Chemical’s $18.8bn acquisition of Rohm & Haas; InBev’s negotiations with Anheuser-Busch; Schaeffler’s attempt at acquiring Continental of Germany and FedEx’s negotiations to buy TNT...
...Before his five-year tenure at OMD, Mr Uva spent nearly two decades at Turner Broadcasting System, handling advertising sales and marketing for cable TV channels including TBS, TNT and Cartoon Network....
...month or so deals have been signed with Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation for corporate mail services; ANA, the national airline, for international cargo; and global logistics and mail provider TNT...
...ABN said Wegener’s 49 per cent stake in Selektmail, the mail distributor and largest competitor to TNT in the Dutch market, could be worth €230m but was not reflected in the current valuation....
...German private equity groups are rumoured to be running the rule over logistics group TNT, while Business Post has been linked with a number of groups recently including Fed-Ex of the US and Deutsche Post...
...The TNT exchange is expected to be completed by the end of the month. Michelin, the French tyre producer, was also in the market, buying back outstanding debt, but without offering a new issue....
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