Anglo-Dutch Corus is another possibility.

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Although theories of a counterbid from Russian company Severstal for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus appear increasingly unlikely, the firm's billionaire owner, Alexei Mordashov, still has ambitious international expansion plans for his business.

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In 1967, the steelworks were nationalised to become the British Steel Corporation, later privatised as British Steel, which in 1999 merged with Dutch company Hoogevens to become Corus.

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Tata Steel acquired Corus, an Anglo-Dutch firm, which made the Tata group UK's biggest manufacturer.

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More major companies will join the ranks of Corus, an Anglo-Dutch steel company purchased by an Indian firm, Tata Steel.

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Earlier this month, Corus, an Anglo-Dutch steel group, said it will lay off 6, 000 workers and cut production by one-fifth in Britain, where operations have been ravaged by sterling's strength.

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Two years ago, Corus, an Anglo-Dutch firm born from the merger of British Steel and Hoogovens, found itself, uneasily, with a new big shareholder, Alisher Usmanov, another of the steel oligarchs.

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Labour is now clearly identified as the establishment, but turned out to be powerless when Corus, a British-Dutch steel firm, announced in February it was getting rid of 3, 000 Welsh steel-making jobs.

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