Potential tie-up between two of world’s biggest brewers, to form a £177bn beer behemoth, could trigger lottery sized payday for advisers
Belgium-based AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, wants to agree a takeover with Peroni maker SABMiller.
Belgium-based AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, wants to agree a takeover with Peroni maker SABMiller.
It pointed to worries about the global economy following weeks of turmoil on financial markets and mounting fears over a sharp slowdown in China.
Some 35 per cent of investors voted against the measure, while another 15 per cent voted against the basic pay policy for directors.
It’s all part of the firm’s plan to reduce its groaning debt and boost profits. Under pressure from investors, copper output in Zambia and the DR Congo is to be suspended for 18 months.
Despite a boost last month from demand for school uniforms, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed high street sales rose just 0.2 per cent.
The Fed remains to open to a modest rise in rates towards the end of the year. The last time it raised rates was back in June 2006 when it hiked them 25 basis points to 5.25 per cent.
The FTSE 100 index finished down 42.22 points, or 0.7 per cent at 6,186.99, just off the session low of 6,182.63, having reversed from an early peak of 6,239.86.
Britain's largest-listed consolidator of closed life funds confirmed that it has approached Cinven - Guardian's owner - about joining forces and creating a firm with £70bn of assets under management.
Businesses, unions, campaigners and energy sector bodies have joined calls for the Government to rethink its proposal to dramatically axe feed-in tariff payments from next year.
Declining oil prices and the introduction of shale technology have hit the energy industry hard over the past eighteen months and Rotork is now feeling the knock on effects.
Some supporters will be forced to watch games on TV as tickets fail to arrive ahead of the tournament's kick off tomorrow. The warning comes after police seized a parcel containing 300 tickets for games.
In the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 97 per cent of all council-housing stock would end up having to be sold off into private hands once vacant, housing charity Shelter says.
The data is in contradiction with recent reports that had pointed to a worse sales decline since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2008.
Gross mortgage lending reached £20bn last month to record the strongest August since before the financial crisis, according to estimates by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Revenue rose 3.8 per cent, while like-for-like sales were up 0.3 per cent - thanks to strong Legoland trade in North America and Germany.
Chief executive Ivan Glasenberg invested around £137million in the fund raising and will miss out on another £130million in dividends following a suspension.
Complaints to water companies have fallen for the seventh year in a row, but the gap between the best and worst firms remains ‘unacceptable’, an industry’s watchdog said.
The North West as a region had the highest proportion of claims from crashes at 43 per cent, according to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
The last of the current model of Land Rover Defender are selling for thousands of pounds more used than they did new, according to latest data from CAP Automotive.
The number of over-65s in work is rising three times faster than the rate for younger people - with more than a million older people now putting off retirement.
New rules on pension withdrawal follow a Westminster pledge by George Osborne (pictured) that they could be used like bank accounts. But those wanting to do so face stiff penalties.
Sales at stores open a year or more rose 7 per cent in the six months to the end of July, and revenue reached £6.8bn – up 17 per cent on the previous year.
Shares fell 3.5p or 3.3 per cent to 102p after it admitted the roll out of its IT system had an impact on sales in July and August.
The company bought Intelenet, which offers accounting and other back office services to telecoms firms, from Blackstone for £350m in 2011.
Cayman Islands-based Marwyn Value Investors sold it’s remaining 53m shares, or 18 per cent shares in the company at 269p a pop to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
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