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)
The July 29, 2000 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 210 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 76 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in 288 days. You have lived for 9,207 days, or about 220,987 hours, or about 13,259,261 minutes, or about 795,555,660 seconds.
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: 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: 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: 29 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
MP3.com settles copyright infringement suit with EMI Group PLC; details are not provided (S)
Date: 29 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Sonera, Finland's largest telephone company, fall after firm denies having put itself up for sale (S)
Date: 29 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Viacom Inc will take charges of about $1.5 billion in second quarter for costs related to buying CBS Corp (S)
Date: 29 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Volkswagen reports 57 percent rise in profits to $367 million, foresees further profit growth (S)
Date: 29 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dime Bancorp says its shareholders voted against management's five board nominees, leaving North Fork Bancorp free to pursue its $1.85 billion hostile bid for company (S)