UK/NETHERLANDS: Tesco bid for Ahold “makes sense” - analysts
By: just-food.com | 2 November 2009
There is "compelling strategic logic" behind the possibility of UK retailer Tesco launching a takeover bid on smaller Dutch peer Ahold, analysts have suggested.
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There is "compelling strategic logic" behind the possibility of UK retailer Tesco launching a takeover bid on smaller Dutch peer Ahold, analysts have suggested.
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