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M&A
28 Feb
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Tesco's Booker takeover given go-ahead by shareholders

Tesco and Booker Group shareholders have both voted through the supermarket giant's contentious £3. 7bn takeover of the country's leading wholesaler.

28 Feb
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UBM posts strong final set of results before sale to Informa

UBM posted a strong rise in annual profit in what is expected to be the events group’s last set of results before the events company is taken over by rival Informa.

27 Feb
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GKN board points to growth as Melrose vultures continue to circle

Amid an ongoing war of words with Melrose over the latter’s takeover bid, GKN issued a set of results in line with its previous guidance on Tuesday and announced the aim of separating its aerospace and Driveline businesses into two listed companies via a demerger in the middle of 2019.

27 Feb
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Jaywing to acquire Australian marketing firm, announces placing

Digital marketing services provider Jaywing announced a conditional placing to raise up to £1. 3m in order to fund its acquisition of Australian firm Frank Digital.

27 Feb
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Swallowfield buys £3m Fish men's grooming brand

Personal care and beauty products developer Swallowfield has acquired men's grooming brand Fish for an upfront cash consideration of £2. 7m.

27 Feb
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Comcast tables hostile bid for Sky, markets wait for Fox/Disney's reaction

US broadcasting giant Comcast has put in a rival $31bn (£22. 1bn) bid to buy Sky, in a direct challenge to Fox and Walt Disney, with markets seemingly expecting that Rupert Murdoch and Disney will be forced to come back to the table with their own revised offers.

26 Feb
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HRG and Spectrum Brands announce $10bn merger

Shares in consumer products company HRG Group picked up as much as 6. 29% in early trading on Monday after announcing that it had reached a $10bn merger agreement with Wisconsin firm Spectrum Brands.

26 Feb
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Vodafone sells out of Qatar joint venture for £264m

Vodafone Group has sold its 51% stake in a Qatar joint venture to its project partner, the Qatar Foundation for the equivalent of £264m and an ongoing partner-market deal.

26 Feb
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GlobalData in 'advanced discussions' for trio of acquisitions

GlobalData is looking to acquire Research Views Limited, Progressive Ventures Limited and Progressive Media Ventures Limited, along with their respective subsidiaries, in an all-share transaction.

23 Feb
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General Mills to buy Blue Buffalo for $40 a share

US food company General Mills made a move into the pet food market on Friday as it agreed to buy Blue Buffalo for $40 per share in cash, which is around $8bn.

22 Feb
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Flybe soars as Stobart confirms talks over possible deal

Flybe flew higher on Thursday after infrastructure and support services business Stobart confirmed that the two are in talks about "a number of potential structures", which could include a takeover.

21 Feb
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Market buzz: Carney's inflation chat sends pound higher

1645: After starting in the red, the FTSE 100 has steadily strengthened as the session wore on. It finished at 7,281. 57, up 34. 8 points or 0. 48%. Here's a closing comment from market analyst Joshua Mahony at IG. "With a morning’s worth of disappointing eurozone PMI surveys, we have seen Carney’s inflation report testimony drag EURGBP lower despite today’s jump in UK unemployment. While Carney’s expectation of three rate rises over the next three years will grab the headlines, the fact that the bank aims to be ‘nimble’ given Brexit uncertainty points towards a strong chance we may never see all three hikes materialise should a preferential deal not be achieved.

21 Feb
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Fidessa agrees to £1.4bn takeover by Switzerland's Temenos

Fidessa was flying high again on Wednesday as it agreed to a £1. 4bn takeover by Swiss banking software company Temenos a day after confirming that the two were in talks.

21 Feb
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FairFX acquires partner City Forex for £6m and quick earnings boost

FairFX has tightened its grasp on the travel currency industry with the £6m purchase of City Forex on Wednesday.

20 Feb
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Qualcomm increases NXP offer in order to fight off Broadcom takeover

US chip giant Qualcomm upped its bid for NXP Semiconductors to roughly $44bn on Tuesday as part of its efforts to win shareholder support for the acquisition and further its expansion into the fast-growing motor vehicle chip market and reduce its reliance on smartphones.

20 Feb
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Rite Aid surges on Albertsons merger plan

Shares in drugstore chain Rite Aid surged in pre-market trade on Tuesday as it agreed for grocery chain Albertsons to buy the remainder of the company that isn't being sold to Walgreens Boots Alliance.

20 Feb
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Melrose presses GKN offer as Corbyn ramps up political pressure

Melrose Industries pressed the case for its £7. 4bn bid for GKN as Jeremy Corbyn increased the political pressure over the turnaround company's proposed hostile takeover.

20 Feb
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Fox increases news commitments to seal Sky deal

21st Century Fox has strengthened its commitments to investment in Sky's UK news channel in a bid to secure a takeover of the European cable network.

20 Feb
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Fidessa in talks about being taken over by Temenos

Fidessa has confirmed that it is in "advanced discussions" about being taken over by Swiss banking software group Temenos for around £1. 4bn of cash.

19 Feb
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Baker Steel Resources' largest investment offloads Russian silver mine

Guernsey-based investment company Baker Steel Resources advised investors that Polar Acquisitions (PAL), its largest investment, has agreed to sell its interest in the Prognoz silver mine in Russia to its Channel Island neighbour, Jersey-based Polymetal International, in a deal worth more than $70m.