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Saint-Gobain SA, the French building materials group, is this weekend making a last-ditch approach to the board of BPB PLC in an effort to seal an agreed 3.8 bln stg takeover of the British plasterboard company, both The Sunday Times and The Sunday…
The European Commission on Wednesday cleared French glass firm Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA's hostile 3.68 billion British pound (euro5.45 billion; US$6.4 billion) bid for British plasterboard maker BPB PLC.
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Saint Gobain's (12500.FR) remarks in response to BPB (BPB.LN) defense document contain nothing new as expected, says analyst.
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Mexican stocks edged higher Wednesday as second-tier issues, like shares in glass maker Vitro SA, staged recoveries. The market's key IPC index closed up 27.07 points or 0.2 percent to 13,550.14.
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One of Cardiff's major manufacturing employers an-nounced yesterday that it had invited staff to apply for voluntary redundancy.