Shareholders to block Countrywide takeover (Independent) (Property)
Shareholders to block Countrywide takeover (Independent)
The attempt to take Countrywide, Britain’s biggest estate agent, private is expected to fail today, heaping pressure on the management team that led the buyout.
Countrywide bidders buy time (Financial Times)
Management buy-outs pose specific problems for boards at the best of times. Any deal backed by management arouses suspicions that the insiders must know something about the prospects for the business that outside investors do not and cannot know.
Estate agent presents new year plans (Peterborough Today)
LEADING estate agent Sharman Quinney hosted an all-day forum to bring together all 120 employees from its 17 offices across the region. (10/01/2007 17:03:11)
Claire Beale on Advertising (Independent)
There are people out there who think that truth in advertising is as much of an oxymoron as an honest politician. Really. Ad execs don’t come bottom in the honourable profession stakes for nothing; used-car salesmen and estate agents are generally considered more believable.
Countrywide vote on 3i takeover on hold (The Scotsman: Business)
LONDON-LISTED private equity company 3i has asked Countrywide to postpone a shareholder vote over its 970 million proposed takeover of the estate agent after about 20 per cent of shareholders rejected the bid.
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