Thursday, 2nd September 2010

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Thursday newspaper round-up: Tesco, Burger King, BHP Billiton

12 hours ago

Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, is one of 10 bidders in the £650m auction for the south-east Asian assets of French rival Carrefour. Other bidders in the first round of bids for the stores are thought to include Casino, another French retailer, Aeon, the vast Japanese supermarket group, and Dairy Farm, the Singapore retail group, the Telegraph says.

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Thursday newspaper round-up: Tesco, Burger King, BHP Billiton

Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, is one of 10 bidders in the £650m auction for the south-east Asian assets of French rival Carrefour. Other bidders in the first round of bids for the stores are thought to include Casino, another French retailer, Aeon, the vast Japanese supermarket group, and Dairy Farm, the Singapore retail group, the Telegraph says. 12 hours ago

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Tomkins, US markets, Tony Blair...

Greg Hutchings told The Times he believed that Tomkins investors had been short-changed in the £3.1bn Canadian takeover of the company. Yesterday

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Osborne, Tesco, Airlines...

George Osborne is planning to cut staff numbers at the Treasury by about one-quarter and scale back his department's role as he attempts to lead by example in the search for sweeping spending cuts across Whitehall. 2 days ago

Sunday newspaper round-up: Vodafone, Royal Bank of Scotland, Encore...

Vodafone is preparing to raise more than £4bn by selling its shares in China Mobile, the first in a string of planned disposals by the mobile-phone giant. 4 days ago

Friday newspaper round-up: Banks, Rolls-Royce, Glencore...

Managers of Britain's biggest banks can claim little credit for the sector's return to profitability this year, according to Standard & Poor's. 6 days ago

Thursday newspaper round-up: Polly Peck, BHP Billiton, Google

One of Britain's most notorious fugitives will return to the UK voluntarily today to face multimillion-pound fraud charges after almost two decades abroad, it was reported last night. Asil Nadir, 69, who was a Conservative party donor, fled to his native northern Cyprus in 1993 to avoid a £34m fraud trial centred on the collapse of his Polly Peck business empire, according to the Guardian. 7 days ago

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