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News Corp
Rupert Murdoch faces sceptical investors in bid to reunite empire
...But the chief motivation for the merger is consolidating power under Lachlan Murdoch — Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son and the Fox chief executive — as Rupert’s successor, according to four people close to the...
October 19, 2022
Due Diligence
Rupert Murdoch’s final act? Premium content
...Whether or not it was his first choice, the merger plan rings eerily similar to the reunification of media conglomerates CBS and Viacom, worth $13bn today — less than half of the value of the separate groups...
October 20, 2022
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
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Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
Due Diligence
A former JPMorgan banker marches toward Jamie Dimon’s throne Premium content
...Now the corporations and countries that cozied up to the outgoing president are racing to find Democrats with links to the new Biden administration....
November 19, 2020
News in-depthMergers & Acquisitions
‘Blank-cheque’ blitz: Michael Klein leads Wall St charge into Spacs
...Rather than early-stage companies, such as space tourism business Virgin Galactic and electric truck manufacturer Nikola that have been swallowed up by Spacs, Mr Klein has so far targeted more mature businesses...
July 21, 2020
Due Diligence
Media M&A: Ain’t No Business Like Show Business Premium content
...The latest entrants to the race are Viacom and CBS. They’re in the process of negotiating a merger 13 years after they were split by controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone....
August 9, 2019
Due Diligence
Bonuses at risk as M&A fees slide Premium content
...Pearson’s chief finance officer Coram Williams, who was seen by insiders as a potential successor to chief executive John Fallon, has left the company....
January 17, 2020
FT Live
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Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
US & Canadian companies
Les Moonves resigns as CBS chief executive
...As part of the litigation settlement, Ms Redstone and National Amusements have agreed to halt efforts to merge CBS and Viacom for two years....
September 10, 2018
Due Diligence
No tax holiday payday yet Premium content
...Actually, one more: CBS and Viacom took concrete steps towards exploring a merger: read about it here. US shareholders expecting a big 2004-style payday shouldn’t hold their breath....
February 2, 2018
Family businesses
Founders’ vision keeps engine running
...Electric and Walmart — and contrasted each with a less successful rival....
November 10, 2015
FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
The 6am London Cut
...(Financial Times) Companies rush to sell debt in blockbuster week: Some of the world’s largest corporations, including General Electric, Coca-Cola and Viacom, lined up to offer $49bn worth of new securities...
March 7, 2014
Mergers & Acquisitions
Corporate succession: Warren Buffett
...Corporate America’s tendency to personalise business and elevate leading managers to rock-star status has meant that even large companies such as Disney, Citigroup and General Electric have at times struggled...
October 29, 2010
European companies
Rosatom launches global charm offensive
...French nuclear power group Areva is competing with Rosatom for a contract to build a reactor in the Czech Republic, while Toshiba, which bought the US Westinghouse Electric Company in 2006, is a rival for...
September 1, 2010
Work & Careers
Monday Interview: Man on the money with Buffett
...Nobody else operates the same way or stays in the game in a major corporation as long as we have, so we’ve got a different model. And we like it that way.”...
July 12, 2009
Life & Arts
FT top 50 women in world business
...Her plans to retire this year had to be put on hold when US businessman Chip Goodyear withdrew his candidacy as her successor. 11 Name: Patricia Ann Woertz Nationality: American Age: 56 Company: Archer...
September 25, 2009
US & Canadian companies
Murdoch hints at $5bn acquisitions spree
...Asked if News Corp might buy assets from Viacom or CBS after Sumner Redstone, their chairman, was forced into a sale of non-voting stock last week, he said: “If they were at a very reasonable price, yes....
October 17, 2008
FT Live
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Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
News in-depthUS & Canadian companies
Hollywood writers seek to reclaim their place
...But when the rules changed in 1995 the four US networks – ABC, now owned by Walt Disney; CBS; Fox, part of News Corporation; and NBC, now controlled by General Electric – integrated production with their...
December 3, 2007
News in-depthMergers & Acquisitions
Dow Jones and Murdoch’s mission
...“Yet Sky News spends a tenth of that, and you can be sure what you see in the news on Sky – which is 39 per cent owned by The Sun’s parent company News Corporation – is accurate. Unlike the BBC.”...
August 1, 2007
LexMergers & Acquisitions
Internet executive changes
...The digital businesses of CBS and Viacom remain small in comparison. Both still need to build up the right set of properties to create a vibrant digital media division....
November 19, 2006
UK schools
Observer
...That is one spot ahead of his rival, Les Moonves, who is thriving as the head of Viacom’s sister company, CBS....
September 14, 2006
News in-depthMergers & Acquisitions
Decline sets in at the conglomerate
...Other once-mighty groups such as Cendant, the property-to-travel giant, and Viacom, Sumner Redstone’s media powerhouse, have already unravelled decades of acquisitions to split into their component parts...
February 4, 2007
Private equity
Univision considers going on the block
...An auction for Univision, which is worth nearly $10 billion, could set off a scramble among the country’s media giants — the News Corporation, Time Warner and CBS — as they vie for a slice of the lucrative...
February 8, 2006
World
Time Warner must repel Icahn’s raid
...short-sighted as Viacom’s recent separation of CBS from that company’s other video networks....
December 5, 2005
US & Canadian companies
Areva forms nuclear partnership with Constellation
...However the market will be driven by fleet renewals, as reactors come to the end of their working lives....
September 15, 2005
News in-depthThe Future of Yahoo
Media groups signal second internet boom
...Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, who has developed a reputation as a media visionary, has in recent months made the internet the his top priority for News Corp after...
October 17, 2005
Oil
Wall Street mixed as market digests M&A
...Wall Street closed mixed on Thursday as investors got to grips with a new wave of mergers and acquisitions and oil prices pulled back from record highs....
March 17, 2005

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