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Article: What The Sunday Business Papers Said
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2000
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Independent On Sunday
Barclay Knapp, the chief executive of the telecoms giant NTL, has
effectively ruled out a bid for either Telewest or Orange, two
companies the City believed NTL was stalking. He also signalled that
the cable group would not go head to head with BSkyB for the rights
to show live football.
BMW, which is back in negotiations with Alchemy over the sale of
Rover, is understood to be demanding that the venture capitalist
covers the pounds 100m of losses run up since talks began.
Liberty will this week receive a pounds 68m bid from Marlyebone
Warwick Balfour, which aims to transform the department store into an
internet retailer.
Following the success of its pounds 22.5bn ...