Walter Thompson fell on hard times and the opportunistic Sorrell launched a hostile bid.
The first surprise was its hostile bid, which was fully supported by the family.
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Bart Becht, Coty's chairman, says he does not want to launch a hostile bid.
He and former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca announced a hostile bid for Chrysler in 1995.
That means if Microsoft presses forward with a hostile bid, the battle could be over by August.
In 2006 the two sparred when Mr Samuelsson launched a hostile bid for Scania, a Swedish truck firm.
Britain's Vodafone AirTouch , the world's biggest mobile-phone operator, is mulling a hostile bid for Germany's Mannesmann .
You see, Oracle won a bitter hostile bid against their former company, PeopleSoft.
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After spurning a hostile bid from E-Trade in 2005, Moglia did his biggest deal yet, agreeing to buy online brokerage TD Waterhouse.
Bank of New York later said it would not launch a hostile bid.
When Carson Pirie Scott, another midwestern chain, made a hostile bid for Younkers, Martin picked up the phone to call Gould.
In March, Damstadt, Germany-based Merck set out on its own hostile bid for German neighbor Schering, bypassing Serono's "For Sale" sign.
IMI's hostile bid for Banca di Roma, apparently because it did not fit its own plans for consolidation in the industry.
Meanwhile, BHP Billiton, the mining company, formally dropped its hostile bid for Candaian fertilizer company PotashCorp, after failing to secure regulatory approval.
But if the French government is determined to stand in the way of foreign bids, Sanofi's hostile bid could eventually play out.
Xstrata was also a bidder for Lonmin and walked away from a hostile bid of 5 billion pounds a couple years ago.
His strategy contrasts that of former colleague and Sanofi-Aventis chief Chris Viehbacher, who is enmeshed in a hostile bid for biotech Genzyme.
In September, Mr Pinault launched a hostile bid for Worms, a big financial group that included Athena, a profitable and well-run insurer.
The company, best know for providing online communications services like eFax, last week disclosed a hostile bid for cloud-based storage provider Carbonite.
The issue of concentration will also be big, as the hostile bid would go against the trend of fragmentation in the stock market.
While a CME Group hostile bid was rumored, that would require it to cross regulatory lines it might not want to cross.
It began when hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt appeared poised to launch a hostile bid for US Air, acquiring about 6% of the company.
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Dave Duffield is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of PeopleSoft, a successful business-software firm swallowed by Oracle in 2004 after a hostile bid.
In 2000, the two exchanges agreed a merger plan which fell apart when the LSE received a rival, hostile bid from the Swedish OM exchange.
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In February 1999, a group of businessmen from Brescia, a city east of Milan, launched a successful hostile bid using Olivetti as the takeover vehicle.
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The bank was bought by Royal Bank of Scotland in a hostile bid earlier this month, and the Scots want to be shot of Gartmore.
Earlier this month, Sequenom made a hostile bid for Exact Sciences.
Four years later, in 1971, Brumley and a young Goldman Sachs banker named Robert Ruben led the company's successful fight against a hostile bid by T.
ON's bid for Endesa was announced, Enel signalled that it wants to buy a stake in Electrabel, and may even launch a hostile bid for Suez itself.
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