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Diageo PLC (DGE.LN) received just a fraction of the shares it had offered to buy in India's United Spirits Ltd. (532432.BY) from public shareholders as the offer price was significantly lower than the stock's market value.The U.K. alcohol giant offered to buy a 26% stake, or 38 million shares, for 1,440 rupees ($26) a share from the Indian spirits maker's public shareholders between April 10 and April 26. But the stock's price rose well beyond the offer price as investors expected Diageo to sweeten the offer.JM Financial Institutional Securities Pvt. Ltd., which managed the offer, Wednesday said just 64,169 shares were tendered to the offer, of which 58,668 were accepted.The open offer was part of Diageo's $2 billion deal struck in November to buy up to a 53.4% stake in the Indian company. The deal included buying a 27.4% stake from United Spirits Chairman Vijay Mallya, a few companies controlled by him and in new shares.Under Indian rules, any merger and acquisition involving more tha...
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (500696.BY), India's largest consumer-goods company by revenue, Monday exceeded market expectations with a 15% increase in its fiscal-fourth-...
Credit Suisse says that lower global crude and gold prices is a positive for India, but stays less enthused over it than others. It says that the rally may continue ...
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (532540.BY) Wednesday posted a better-than-expected 22% rise in quarterly net profit and said its revenue growth this fiscal year will...
India's market regulator has exempted software exporter Wipro Ltd. (507685.BY) from a rule that prevents controlling shareholders of companies from selling their sta...
Infosys Ltd. (500209.BY) Friday lost more than a fifth of its market value after announcing its quarterly financial results and outlook that investors found disappoi...
Infosys Ltd. (500209.BY) reported that its fiscal fourth-quarter net profit rose 3% from a year earlier but revenue came in below expectations sending the software e...
Indian software services company Wipro Ltd. (507685.BY) tumbled over 11% to become the biggest loser on the 30-share S&P BSE Sensex on Tuesday, following news that t...
TVS Motor Co. (532343.BY) and the two-wheeler unit of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW.XE) Monday signed an agreement to develop a new range of motorcycles in India ...
Shares in Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (530011.BY) rose sharply for the second consecutive day Wednesday on traders' expectations that a rival's purchase o...
Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd.'s (500900.BY, SLT) copper smelter in southern India will remain shut despite the Indian Supreme Court Tuesday overturning a lower-co...
Tata Sons Ltd., a company which controls the diversified Tata Group of companies, on Thursday increased its stake in group company Titan Industries Ltd. (500114.BY) ...
India's aviation regulator Tuesday said 17 planes of Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. (532747.BY) have been deregistered on request of the leasing companies which own the je...
Indian real-estate company DLF Ltd.'s (532868.BY) stake sale Tuesday to raise at least 18.00 billion rupees ($328.2 million) received bids for more shares than it of...
Piramal Enterprises Ltd. (500302.BY) Friday acquired a 10% stake in Indian truck financier Shriram Transport Finance Co. Ltd. (511218.BY) for 16.52 billion rupees ($...
Unilever PLC late Wednesday announced the purchase period for its $5.4 billion offer to raise stake in Indian unit Hindustan Unilever Ltd., in a move to capitalize o...
DLF Ltd. (532868.BY) has chosen eight banks to manage its offer of 81 million shares to institutional investors, a person with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday, ...
DLF Ltd. (532868.BY) has chosen eight banks to handle an offer for sale of 8.1 million shares in an institutional placement, a person with knowledge of the matter sa...
India's central bank Friday lowered its key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point but stuck to a hawkish line on inflation, denting hopes that it would con...
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