Sentences with phrase «own bid for»

BHP Billiton's blockbuster bid for Potash Corp. was a different matter.

BENGALURU / MUMBAI, May 2 (Reuters)- Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to buy 60 percent of Flipkart , CNBC - TV18 reported on Wednesday, potentially complicating Walmart Inc's bid for majority ownership of the Indian online retailer.

Although a number of media companies including Vox and Penske Media were said to be interested in bidding for Gawker, the auction only involved bids from Univision and Ziff - Davis.

Four years after grocer Loblaw Cos. bought drugstore Shoppers Drug Mart, rival Metro is following suit, making a bid for the Quebec - based pharmacy chain Jean Coutu.

Shahid Khan, owner of NFL franchise the Jacksonville Jaguars, has made a bid for London's iconic Wembley Stadium, home of the English national soccer team.

For example, Cruz made his bid for office known on March 23 last year by live - streaming his first major speech.

Thanks to the «economics of flexibility» they can also bid for contracts they would never have had the chance to go for previously, when so much more was done «in house.»

According to a study by George Washington University and Zignal Labs, Sanders is the only candidate whose «echo» across the Internet has actually increased since his initial announcement of his bid for the presidency.

Local forestry veteran Tony Jack has accused receiver McGrathNicol of using his bid for the collapsed Great Southern timber schemes to find a better deal for the bank creditors at the expense of out - of - pocket investors.

CNOOC underestimated the political debate it would provoke by bidding for an underperforming and reasonably small U.S. oil company; its inexperience effectively handed the contest to a competing bid from U.S. oil giant Chevron.

Amazon's bid is likely to be on par with Walmart Inc's bid for the Indian e-commerce company, CNBC - TV18 reported https://bit.ly/2jo03py.

Australian - based BHP's $ 39 billion bid for Saskatchewan's Potash Corporation was blocked by the Canadian government in 2010.

(Although the official rejection of Petronas's bid for Progress startled many, it was not actually quashed.

Cramer was also burned on Pfizer's aborted takeover bid for drug company Allergan, which had an overseas taxation rate that would allow the company to pay lower taxes than if it were based in the U.S.

ALMATY, April 24 - Canada's Centerra Gold said on Tuesday it had received an unsolicited bid for its Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan from Chaarat Gold Holdings but that it had informed the London - listed company that it was not interested in the offer.

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

Its key broadband internet business has suffered a double blow, first from the Federal Communications Commission's ruling for more utility - like regulation of the Internet's infrastructure, and then, shortly afterwards, by the collapse of its bid for Time Warner Cable (TWC).

But, within the insurance industry, recent attempts to integrate horizontally — such as Anthem's bid for fellow insurer Cigna and Aetna's proposed deal for rival Humana — have faced roadblocks over antitrust concerns.

• Nestle and Bain and Civen are preparing tentative bids for Merck KgaA's consumer health unit, Reuters reports citing sources.

American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) made clear in its memo that flight attendants who bid for a trip and get that trip then own that trip.

Often, presidential candidates will launch their bids for office a year or more before the actual November elections.

And even though Nasdaq lost the bidding for Spotify, which many consider the big tech IPO for the year, Friedman seems cool about it.

• Apple is discussing a $ 3 billion stake in Bain Capital's bid for Toshiba's chip unit, according to Bloomberg.

The most recent example, of course, came on Tuesday, when Facebook announced a $ 2 billion acquisition of the virtual reality startup Oculus VR, but it's just the most recent in a string of Facebook's recent buyout offers, from it's failed $ 3 billion bid for Snapchat to its jaw - dropping $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.

Trudeau is six months into his bid for the party leadership, and it shows as he briskly shakes every available hand in the room before alighting on his throne to expound on the Conservative government's fickle relationship with China.

Qatar will not have an Indian partner in this proposed airline and the company has also stated it is not bidding for Air India.

Seven Group Holdings has upped its takeover bid for National Hire Group, after its initial offer of $ 3.00 per share was rejected by the target's major shareholder, Tasmania - based Caterpillar dealer Da

I bet that if Arthur T. Demoulas does not win his bid for the other 50.5 percent of Market Basket, the company's stakeholders will be worse off.

But as of 2016, Scott, who was a hospital executive before launching a bid for Governor, had a net worth of nearly $ 150 million, according to his public financial disclosure forms, and he used funds from his personal fortune on his gubernatorial elections in 2010 and 2014.

American Airlines management wants to put an end to «trip bids,» a way of bidding for prime flights to work, Chicago Business Journal reports.

Comcast formalizes its $ 31 billion bid for British broadcaster Sky.

Even if his case does get reviewed in a timely fashion, his bid for clemency could still be turned down.

David Zaslav, Discovery CEO, talks Comcast's bid for Sky and why investing in European media assets has paid off.

In 2008, the company made a bid for Napster, the file - sharing service that had relaunched as a subscription music product, but bowed out when the asking price was too high.

Cuban said that while his wife doesn't seem thrilled by the idea right now, he has a year to try and persuade her before he would need to officially make a bid for the office.

As my colleague David Meyer reports, the purchase will likely require the scrutiny of the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS), which recently hit the headlines by stalling Broadcom's unsolicited bid for Qualcomm until President Donald Trump outright nixed that deal.

Toys «R» Us gets bids for Asia business.

Meanwhile, voting is underway in Iran's presidential election where President Hassan Rouhani is bidding for a second term in office.

• Cambuhy Investimentos and GP Investments are among investment firms considering a bid for Alpargatas SA (BOVESPA: ALPA4), a Brazil - based clothing and accessories manufacturer, according to Reuters.

You might also look at elance.com where gifted designers will bid for your job.

We've had competing bids for sites as big as 50 acres, [from] hoteliers, developers, industrialists... all wanting to invest as quick as possible.»

• Bento Inc., a Canadian sushi maker, has reportedly decided to end its bid for an IPO, Bloomberg said citing those with knowledge of the matter.

He served two terms representing Texas in the House of Representatives from 1967 until 1971 but lost two bids for the Senate.

In 1995, the pension plan had co-funded the McCains» takeover bid for Maple Leaf Foods from British company Hillsdown PLC, and held a 35 % stake since then.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to reach the minimum acquisition level of 50 per cent.

• Jollibee Foods Corp is exploring a bid for Pret A Manger, a U.K. - based upscale sandwich chain, at over $ 1 billion, according to Reuters.

Blankfein said before the election that he was backing her bid for president.

UNITED NATIONS / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters)- The United States threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen's Houthi group.

Verizon Communications Inc. is the clear favorite in the upcoming bidding for Yahoo Inc's core Internet business, according to Wall Street analysts, in large part because the telecommunications company's efforts to become a force in Internet content have gone relatively well under the leadership of AOL Inc Chief Executive Tim Armstrong.

Recently, the fate of CNOOC's bid for beleaguered Calgary oilsands producer Nexen became even more uncertain after the federal government blocked a $ 6 - billion takeover of Progress Energy Resources Corp. by Malaysia's Petronas at the eleventh hour.