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...The Scottish company provides consultation, management of assets and engineering services for the energy and materials sector, and recently expanded into clean energy projects such as wind farms....
...The FTSE 250 company said the bids were all-cash proposals, the most recent offering 230p per share on January 26, a 55 per cent premium compared with its closing price of 148.12p on Wednesday....
...“We provide clients with a report on everything from planned rubbish tips to new wind farms – things that will not necessarily show up on a lawyer’s search,” concludes Charlie Ellingworth, founder of the...
...As the makers put it, in a play on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, “All apes are dope but some are rarer than others.”...
...About 120,000 shareholders in Campbell Soup are being wooed by Daniel Loeb’s activist hedge fund, which claimed they could be in line for a premium of almost 60 per cent if the US food group yielded to a...
...These funds are not waiting on tenterhooks for my analysis of every non-farm payrolls report, Fed press conference, Donald Trump tweet, or earnings report....
...And nuclear plants typically have an average utilisation rate above 90 per cent, compared with about 40 per cent for the largest offshore wind farms....
...Hillshire calculated an implied purchase price of $36.02 a share, representing an 18 per cent premium to Pinnacle’s Friday closing price....
...“A strong new product pipeline and the continuing health and wellness trend should sustain Finish Line’s premium running footwear business through 2014.”...
...Charter last month offered $1.63bn for Optimum West, a cable operator sold by Cablevision that reaches more than 300,000 video subscribers in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah....
...The Cerberus-led group will also make a tender offer for up to 30 per cent of the remaining Supervalu company at $4 a share, a 32 per cent premium over Wednesday’s closing price....
...The two largest short-line and regional rail operators in North America said they would combine on Monday, with Genesee & Wyoming acquiring RailAmerica for $1.4bn in cash....
...Shareholders have rewarded G&W, and the sector, with a premium valuation of 15 times 2013 earnings. If RA sells itself, sustaining that kind of growth may be difficult....
...The deal represents a 9.4 per cent premium to Patni’s closing price in Mumbai last week....
...Shareholders will receive C$11.50 a share, a 56 per cent premium to the company’s closing price on November 17....
...No wonder the gas-weighted US exploration and production companies are trading at a premium to the sector of 18 per cent, based on 2008 earnings estimates....
...Private equity groups are targeting the farm chemicals sector, which is seen as ripe for consolidation....
...JC Flowers and other investors are set to bid for a 22.7 per cent stake at Y425 per share, a 24 per cent premium to the last traded price....
...Maytag's board, which formed an independent committee to consider Ripplewood's offer, agreed to sell at a 21 per cent premium over its closing share price of $11.56 on Thursday....
...EG Solutions ended at 97p after its first day of trading on Aim yesterday, a 14.1 per cent premium to its offer price of 85p....
...This weekend is the annual get-together of the panjandrums of central banking in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the Kansas City Fed's annual research conference....
...On the US payrolls data, the November non-farm payrolls rise was the lowest since July, up 112,000. The market consensus was for a 180,000 rise in payrolls....
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