(Reuters) – U.S. department store chain Kohl’s Corp has been approached by private equity firm Sycamore Partners about a potential takeover offer, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. It is unclear how much Sycamore is willing to pay for the company, Bloomberg said. The potential takeover bid comes when Kohl’s…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) – Trian Partners, Nelson Peltz’s activist hedge fund, has built a stake in Unilever Plc, ratcheting up the pressure on the consumer goods maker, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday. Trian and Unilever declined to comment. The Financial Times, which earlier reported the development, said that the…
BERLIN (Reuters) – The drivers of inflation in the euro zone will subside over the course of the year and inflation will hover around the European Central Bank’s price stability target of 2% in the next two years, Finnish central bank chief Olli Rehn was quoted as saying on Sunday. In a pre-released interview with…
MADRID (AP) — Farmers, cattle-breeders, hunters and opposition supporters descended Sunday on the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest environmental and economic policies by Spain’s left-of-center government that they say are hurting rural communities. Sunday’s protest was organized by Alma Rural 2021, a platform representing over 500 rural organizations from all corners of Spain. Members…
By Norihiko Shirouzu (Reuters) – Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co and Mitsubishi Motors Corp plan to triple their investment to jointly develop electric vehicles (EVs), two people with knowledge of the plan told Reuters. As established automakers face pressure from new competitors and an expected shift in demand toward EVs, the French-Japanese alliance is seeking…
VIENNA (Reuters) – There is “a great deal of uncertainty” over how long inflation will remain well above the European Central Bank’s target of around 2%, ECB Governing Council member Robert Holzmann said in an interview with newspaper Die Presse published on Sunday. The ECB has long held the view that inflation will decline this…
By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) -Orange, France’s biggest telecoms operator, is on course to name Christel Heydemann as its new chief executive, making her the first woman to lead the former monopoly amid a revamp of its governance, two sources said on Sunday. Few women hold top executive roles at France’s biggest listed companies. Heydemann…
BERLIN/ROME (Reuters) – Germany’s flagship carrier Lufthansa is in talks to buy a 40% stake in state-owned Alitalia’s successor ITA Airways, two people familiar with the negotiations said on Sunday, following a newspaper report that a deal could be unveiled next week. The talks about a tie-up between Germany’s partly state-owned Lufthansa and ITA Airways…
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Taliban delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday started three days of talks in Oslo with Western officials and Afghan civil society representatives amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. The closed-door meetings were taking place at a hotel in the snow-capped mountains above the Norwegian…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected a British claim that the Kremlin is seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is a potential candidate. Britain’s Foreign Office on Saturday also named several other Ukrainian politicians it said had links with Russian intelligence services,…
