GRANADA BUYS BRITISH TV ASSETS
Date: 29 July 2000
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
Granada Media PLC agrees to buy television assets of United News & Media PLC for $2.64 billion, beating Carlton Communications PLC's bid for British TV dominance (S)
2000년 7월 28일은(는) 금요일의 별 기호 아래에 있는 **♌**입니다. 올해의 209일이었습니다. 미국 대통령은 William J. (Bill) Clinton입니다.
이 날에 태어났다면 당신은 25살입니다. 마지막 생일은 2025년 7월 28일 월요일, 318일 전이었습니다. 다음 생일은 2026년 7월 28일 화요일일 후 46입니다. 당신은 9,449일, 약 226,781시간, 약 13,606,862분 또는 약 816,411,720초 동안 살았습니다.
Date: 29 July 2000
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
Granada Media PLC agrees to buy television assets of United News & Media PLC for $2.64 billion, beating Carlton Communications PLC's bid for British TV dominance (S)
Date: 28 July 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Federal District Court Judge Vaughn R Walker rules that Hearst Corp's $660 million purchase of San Francisco Chronicle did not violate antitrust laws; decision paves way for Hearst to act on its plans to merge Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner newsrooms and to compete with area rivals like Knight Ridder's San Jose Mercury News (M)
Date: 29 July 2000
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
L'Unita, once most powerful leftist newspaper in Italy, publishes its last issue, a victim of fall of Berlin Wall and market forces; it was founded in 1924 as mouthpiece of Italian Communist Party; it went into receivership two weeks ago; in related symptom of decline of left's strength in Italy, Democrats of Left move out of their historic headquarters and move into less expensive offices (M)
Date: 28 July 2000
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Russian prosecutors abruptly drop high-profile criminal inquiry into Valdimir Gusinsky, press tycoon whose Media-Most empire has been among government's sharpest critics; prosecutors offer no explanation for abandoning investigation, although as recently as three weeks ago they had insisted to Parliament that Gusinsky defrauded government of at least $10 million; it is notable that inquiry is halted just before meeting between many of Russia's wealthiest of most politically influential tycoons and Pres Vladimir V Putin, whose government has moved against several of them in tax evasion and criminal cases; photo (M)
Date: 29 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
STMicroelectronics NV agrees to pay $68 million to acquire part of Waferscale Integration Inc that it does not already own; before acquisition, STMicroelectronics owned 14.5 percent minority stake (S)
Date: 29 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Church and Dwight Co will close plant in Syracuse, NY, and lay off about 140 employees (S)
Date: 29 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Philip Morris Companies is raising US cigarette prices to distributors by about 3 percent to increase its profit and help pay for rising legal settlement costs; rival US cigarette makers are expected to follow (S)
Date: 28 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Delco Remy International, auto-parts maker, plans to eliminate 860 jobs, or 12 percent of its work force, and take $22 million charge in its fourth quarter to reorganize (S)
Date: 28 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
McKesson HBOC plans to buy back as much as $250 million of common stock, which has fallen 22 percent in last year, representing 10.2 million shares (S)
Date: 28 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ambanc Holding Co raises its offer for Cohoes Bancorp to about $130 million and urges Cohoes shareholders to reject competing merger agreement with Hudson River Bancorp (S)