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...Mr Florance compares CoStar’s business-to-business data service with Bloomberg’s financial data service, although other companies, including VTS, are working to create rival Bloomberg-style services....
...The infrastructure services group, which in 2010 saw off a bid from VT Group at 294p, proposed a debt-for-equity swap that would give its banks control of the company, leaving investors a special dividend...
...Then there are the “2 plus 2 equals 5” kind like last year’s £1.32bn takeover of VT by Babcock where the businesses complement each other and their marriage cuts costs....
...Mike Turner, chairman of Babcock International – which bought VT Group in March – has hired Ian Duncan as a director....
...VT at more than £1.4bn....
...XCahnging , Mouchel , Carillion, VT ....
...andrew.hill@ft.com VT: louise.lucas@ft.com...
...- VT Group drops bid for Mouchel – statement. - Delta recommends 185p a share cash offer from Valmont Industries – statement....
...Corporate – Daniel Stewart Securities, Falklands Oil & Gas, Fidessa Group, Igas Energy, President Petroleum, Salamander Energy, VT Group...
...VT itself recently backed away from its bid for rival Mouchel....
...Defence specialist VT Group led the mid-cap risers, jumping 15 per cent to 584p after Babcock International made a £1.14bn takeover offer. VT rejected the initial approach, which was pitched at 634p....
...VT Group edged 1.3 per cent higher at 687½p on speculation that Babcock International would raise its offer to about 750p per share....
...Among the mid-caps, VT Group was down 2.8 per cent to 526p on concerns that a takeover of Mouchel, the maintenance and consulting group, may require an equity issue....
...VT Group was up 1.8 per cent to 660p after reports that it was considering paying a 126p-a-share special dividend to scupper the bid approach from Babcock International l....
...As a board member at VT group, the recently acquired support services company, Mr Tyler has experienced at close quarters the speed with which predator can become pray in the tussle for market share....
...VT Group was up 4.5 per cent to 621½p on talk that Babcock International was poised to raise its offer to about 700p per share....
...Companies as varied as EADS, Daimler and defence company VT Group are looking at whether they can give suppliers financial support....
...He said the company would need to move on helping Saudi Arabia develop its industrial base, as part of a £4.2bn contract for new Typhoon fighters, finalising its arrangements with VT about transforming the...
...BAE Systems and VT Group, which will take on the work in a risk-sharing alliance that includes Thales of France, Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary, Babcock and the MoD, will merge their shipbuilding assets following...
...BAE is in talks with VT Group to join forces in naval shipyards in the UK....
...Dane Douetil, chief executive of Brit Insurance, the Lloyd’s of London insurer, becomes a CBE, as do Paul Lester, chief executive of VT Group, the defence contractor, Roger Putnam, former chairman of Ford...
...There will be no VT Day to end the War on Terror. That in turn means that the negative drag that 9/11 has placed on the markets will remain. The markets have, indeed, been changed utterly....
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