Sentences with phrase «week of bidding war»

Not exact matches

While the bidding war had driven the value of WCB shares from about $ 4 to over $ 9 in a matter of weeks, Ms Britnell said she was concerned about the future of the industry and the fate of WCB.

NSW - based Bega Cheese, which owns 18.7 per cent of WCB, conceded defeat in the takeover race this week, as the bidding war pushed the takeover price from $ 320 million to $ 533 million and out of its reach.

You know one of the surprising thing in this transaction was not that Barry signed for City (for 160k a week who wouldn't), but Villa did not wait and started some type of bidding war to get the most out of this.

The news comes as QPR continue negotiations with Mark Hughes about succeeding Neil Warnock as manager, with the hope that a new boss can reignite the fortunes of Taarabt, who has been on the fringes this term, having fired the R's to promotion from the Championship the season before.A deal with French money bags Paris Saint - Germain looked like going through in the summer, but Taarabt later blamed political differences for the transfer ultimately collapsing, leaving him frustrated at having to stay in England.The mercurial Moroccan has interest from a host of top European clubs, but his conduct in the last few months, including walking out of QPR's 1 - 0 win over Chelsea at half - time and consistently admitting he wants to leave, have left many questioning his attitude and professionalism.However, Qatari side Al - Sadd have not been put off, and made their move for Taarabt last week, only to pull out of a deal after being told it would take a whopping # 15 million to convince them to sell.That sort of figure also rules out Newcastle and Aston Villa as potential destinations, with the thought now that QPR will hang on to Taarabt until at least the summer, where they hope Taarabt could spark a bidding war, after being rejuvenated under a new manager and firing the club to Premier League safety.

Reported 100 years ago in Scientific American The invasion of Belgium by the German army, in a bid to outflank French forces, led to Britain declaring war on Germany this week a century ago.

Then, last week, after losing out on a huge bidding war for Nortel's patent portfolio, Google published a blog post lamenting the current state of the US patent system, and accused its competitors of conspiring against Google and leveraging a broken and ineffective patent system to their advantage.