Tata Steel has lost the bidding battle for Vietnam's Vinausteel and SSE Steel after losing a vote on the resolution for its sale and purchase agreement by Vietnam Industrial Investments, the parent company of the two steel makers.
Six months after acquiring Anglo-Dutch steel giant Corus, Tata Steel has put the foreign company's aluminium business on the block.
The list, posted on a website link launched by the US regulator, includes ABB, HSBC, Nokia, Unilever, Cadbury, Total and Siemens among others.
Srei Infrastructure Finance last month sold 50 per cent stake in a part of its business equipment financing arm to France's largest bank BNP Paribas for Rs 775 crore
Srei Infrastructure Finance is set to be the first Indian company to go for Islamic financing for over Rs 200 crore
This is for the second time that Tata Steel is getting into a take-over battle. It acquired the Anglo-Dutch steel company Corus Group after beating rival suitor, CSN of Brazil, through auction.
International brokerages, especially those which have made recent entry into the domestic market, are lining up to acquire the institutional broking business of the city-based Brics Securities.
Sources close to the development said the group will shortly take a decision on the business, which has seen interest from large houses like the Tatas and the Ambanis.
close to the development confirmed that a deal could be signed between the parties shortly
Sterlite Industries is set to list its $2 billion (Rs 8,000 crore) American Depository Shares issue, the largest by any Indian company, with the New York Stock Exchange by the middle of this month.
Corporate India's payout surged 22 per cent in 2006-07, with more than 50 per cent of the companies raising their dividends
This delay was a result of controversies over a 15 per cent holding by Hutchison-Essar Managing Director Asim Ghosh, healthcare major Max's Analjit Singh and financial institution IDFC.
Post-listing, real estate major DLF will find a place among the top-10 companies in terms of market capitalisation.
Rising interest rates and higher inputs costs seem to have taken the sparkle out of corporate results in Q4 2007.
Aditya Birla Group and Holcim are rapidly increasing capacity in a bid to become the largest player in India's cement industry.
Market-men expect these offers will compete head to head for investors' fund of over Rs 24,000 crore next month.
Ahmedabadbased Suzlon Energy has tied up funds for its Euro1.2 billion (Rs 6,543 crore) bid for the German power company, REpower, even before the last date for raising bid by the rival French giant Areva expires on Thursday.
"We have written to all the companies in which we have nominee-directors, asking them not to give Esops," said LIC managing director D K Mehrotra. He said there were more than 100 companies in which LIC had nominee-directors.
The Sun, the flagship publication of Murdoch's News Corporation, is in talks with Maran's Sun group to launch an English tabloid in the country.
This will be over and above a Rs 3,655-crore domestic rights issue and a Rs 4,350 crore convertible preference share issue the company announced last month.
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