InBev short-listed for beer assets

ANHEUSER-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer, and two Chinese brewers are on the short list to buy most of the operations being sold by China’s Kingway Brewery Holdings, sources with direct knowledge of the matter have said. The deal value could be as high as $700m and the short-listed bidders were expected to conduct due-diligence exercises over the next two months, one of the sources said. China Resources Enterprise, Read more [...]

St. Patrick???s Day parade, events listed

This year's St. Patrick's Day Parade will follow the same route as last year and again feature a no-alcohol event in Market Square. The parade will land on St. Patrick's Day itself -- Saturday, March 17 -- for the first time since 2007. It kicks off at 10 a.m. The parade formation begins at the Greyhound bus station at Liberty Avenue and 11th Street, and the parade route will follow Grant Street to the Boulevard of the Allies, where it turns right and ends at a reviewing stand on Stanwix Street. From Read more [...]

SOE sales: Treaty provisions survive

The Maori Party has won a partial victory in forcing the National Government to include Treaty provisions in legislation paving the way for asset sales but have accepted their bid to have those obligations apply to private investors was misguided. Section 9 of the of the State Owned Enterprises Act which protects Maori interests under the Treaty of Waitangi will be replicated in new legislation supporting partial asset sales introduced today by the Government. "During consultation hui last month, Read more [...]

Econ EQT to buy Singapore-listed China Healthcare

SINGAPORE, March 5 | Sun Mar 4, 2012 10:48pm EST SINGAPORE, March 5 (Reuters) - Singapore-listed China Healthcare Ltd, which owns and manages medicare centres and nursing homes in Singapore and Malaysia, said on Monday Econ EQT Investment Pte Ltd has offered S$0.28 per share to acquire the firm. Econ EQT Investment Pte Ltd is 51 percent owned by Econ Investment Holdings Pte Ltd. Hemma Holding Ltd, controlled by a group of private equity funds, holds the Read more [...]

There goes the neighbourhood

Illustration: Rocco Fazzari. Sure, your property might be changing in value constantly, but do you really want to know about it every day? JUST what we don't need, an index that measures property prices daily. I mean, it's bad enough that share prices can change in seconds - or, these days, in a milli-micro-mini-second or whatever - thanks to automated computer trading. Read more [...]

Energize Your Lakeville Business: How to Claim Your Listing for Free

When Lakeville Patch launched in December of 2010, you and your workers may remember myself, or other local editors and freelancers wondering into your small business to create a listing of your business for our super-comprehensive directory, called Patch Places. Now, 14 months later, Patch Places is thriving. Each month, crazy-large numbers of people from all over the South Metro visit our directory, and your business listings, to find out addresses, hours of operation, descriptions, and even Read more [...]

Agents advised to keep ‘bank-owned’ quiet

By Alexandra Clough Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Post a Comment E-mail Print Larger Type Small Type Looking to buy a home, but not sure you want one that fell into foreclosure? Good luck finding out before you tour the property. It's a little-known fact that Wells Fargo Bank's Premier Asset Services division, which sells bank-owned homes, instructs agents who sell these houses to list the owner as "Owner of Record," and not Wells Fargo. Premier Asset Services also sells Read more [...]