WLW - Woolworths Group
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COMPANY PROFILE:
Family-focused high street chain, Woolworths, was founded in 1909 and is known for its offering of discount sweets, CDs, toys and kitchen equipment. The group recently announced plans to ditch its larger "Big W" stores and also holds interests in music retail chain MVC and video retailer VCI. |
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| News & Reports referencing Woolworths Group |
| Sunday newspaper round-up: Microsoft, Woolworths, Tesco |
| Software giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's online search business for $20bn. The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo. |
| Yesterday |
| Monday newspaper round-up: Standard Chartered, Citigroup, Lloyds TSB |
| Standard Chartered is planning a $3bn rights issue to boost the emerging markets bank's capital reserves and ease investors' concerns about its ability to weather a severe economic downturn, writes the FT. |
| 8 days ago |
| Sunday's newspaper round-up: Barclays, HSBC, LSE |
| Barclays shunted hundreds of millions of dollars of toxic mortgage assets into two secretive investment vehicles that it had created itself, says the Independent on Sunday. It did this just as the collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds last year alerted executives to the extent of the coming troubles in the credit markets, according to a lawsuit. |
| 5 weeks ago |
| Thursday newspaper round-up: HBOS, RBS, Lloyds TSB, Standard Chartered |
| The Treasury is preparing to relax an implicit five-year ban on newly nationalised banks paying dividends, in an effort to keep the bailout on track. Banks asking the Government for £37bn in rescue finance — Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and HBOS — scented what they saw as a Treasury climbdown last night after day three of the package talks threatened to become mired in confusion, reports the Times. |
| 7 weeks ago |
| Sunday's newspaper round-up: Bank bail-out progress, RBS, Baugur |
| Treasury sources confirmed that the Government had drawn up paugur, Premier Foodlans to take on a majority stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and big holdings in Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Barclays under its £500bn plan to bail out the banking industry, says the Sunday Telegraph. |
| 7 weeks ago |
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