Sources confirm cloud storage provider Box.net did in fact rebuff a buyout offer earlier this year.
What investors will likely be most focused on is the potential buyout offer by Richard Schulze.
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What happened to turn those discussions into a buyout offer is under wraps, for now.
We dropped Hispanic initially because it had received a buyout offer from Univision.
How about a buyout offer from, say, the French conglomerate Schneider Electric S.A., owner of U.S. electrical-equipment maker Square D?
They aren't commenting, but given their record, public shareholders might be well advised to say no thanks to the buyout offer.
The staunched bleeding has lifted expectations that billionaire Richard Schulze will come through with a buyout offer for the beleaguered company.
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By dragging the bidding out, the board has, in essence, done little more than ensure a lower buyout offer and less value for shareholders.
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After months of build-up and heightened anticipation, the big let down was the lack of a buyout offer from founder and ousted CEO Richard Schulze.
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With YHOO, one might short sell the stock to take advantage of a plunge in the shares if a buyout offer does not materialize.
The company called it the largest pension buyout offer in history.
In 2009 Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached Dropbox with a buyout offer as Apple sought to enable its customers to sync their files between iPhones, iPads and Macs.
Stuart Rose, the Arcadia executive who approved the deal, doesn't question the fairness of Green's buyout offer, but notes that not all of Green's turnarounds come from better efficiencies.
Low-price retailer Family Dollar disclosed it received a multi-billion buyout offer from funds managed by billionaire Nelson Peltz in a regulatory filing after the closing bell Tuesday.
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In the buyout offer's prospectus, Clarins said currency rates and product development costs could cause year-end earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to falls as much as 14.5% from last year.
The PC-maker agreed to a buyout offer from founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners a few months ago, but resistance from shareholders called the deal into question as Blackstone and billionaire Carl Icahn circled the company.
The tentative agreement reached over the weekend calls for 6, 400 new jobs, most of them entry level positions, and a buyout offer for as many as 17, 000 older workers to help clear the way for more new hires.
The investor, known for his interventions in the management of other publicly traded companies, has also threatened to put up his own candidates to replace the current directors on the company's board, in order to implement his plan and block Mr Dell's buyout offer.
But amid mounting pressure to accelerate the turnaround, Ford is now prepared to offer a buyout plan similar to one General Motors used successfully earlier this year to reduce its bloated workforce and close excess factories.
Avon shares fell 49 cents, or 2.1%, to 23.03 after the company reiterated its opposition to fragrance company Coty's buyout bid, saying the offer undervalues the door-to-door beauty company.
The offer is separate from a previously announced pension buyout option for current salaried workers who have not yet retired.
So buy them for value or buy them for income (as both Supervalu and Huntsman offer attractive dividend yields) and look at their strong potential for a buyout by private equity as a bonus.
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