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• Centrica May Not Face Competition For Venture

  ReutersUK - 2009-06-22

  FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters UK) - Utility Centrica CNA may not face much competition should it decide to bid for the rest of North Sea oil and gas producer Venture Production VPC, people with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.Germany's RWE RWEG and E.ON EONGn as well as France's GDF-Suez GSZ...

  Tags: Centrica, CNA Financial Corp., Oukbs

• Centrica Prepared to Go Hostile For Venture

  ReutersUK - 2009-06-21

  LONDON (Reuters UK) - Utility Centrica CNA is prepared to go hostile with its 850 pence a share bid for oil and gas group Venture Production VPC, which is holding out for 950 pence, the Independent on Sunday reported.The Takeover Panel said last week that Centrica had a July 13...

  Tags: Centrica, Business Operations, CNA Financial Corp., Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Oukbs

• Energy Roundup: Centrica Buys BE Stake, Cleantech VC Funding Tumbles, Chevron's PR Offensive, and More

  BNET - 2009-05-11

  Centrica buys 20 percent stake in nuclear company British Energy -- UK utility Centrica boosted its investment in nuclear power with its purchase of a 20 percent stake in EDF's nuclear unit British Energy. Centrica benefited greatly in this discounted deal by paying 6 percent less than the price paid by...

  Tags: Centrica, Clean Technology, Chevron Corp., Public Relations, Venture Capital, Investment, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Kirsten Korosec

• POWER STRUGGLE Breadth of investment makes SSE strong - and ripe for

  - 2009-02-15

  AS if corporate Scotland did not have enough wounds to lick, last week saw the return of a discomforting rumour: Vattenfall, the Swedish electricity giant, has reportedly been in takeover discussions with Scottish and Southern Energy SSE, Scotland's largest company. After a grim few months in which RBS...

  Tags: Centrica, Nuon, Scottish and Southern Energy Plc.

• National briefs: Pressure for energy merger

  - 2008-08-25

  THE biggest City shareholder in British Energy has called for the nuclear power firm to merge with gas supplier Centrica. Neil Woodford, head of investment at Invesco, which owns a 15% stake in British Energy as well as 5% of Centrica, is quoted as describing such a tie-up as the...

  Tags: Centrica, Invesco, merger

• Britain still backs British Energy-EDF tie-up: minister

  - 2008-08-24

  LONDON AFP — Britain continues to favour a tie-up between British Energy and French energy group EDF, Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks said in an interview published Monday. Speaking to the Financial Times last week while on a visit to Lagos, Wicks said a deal with EDF was "the most...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, Centrica, Government, SOFTWARE

• Centrica plans merger with British Energy: report

  - 2008-08-03

  LONDON AFP — British electricity and gas supplier Centrica is mulling a merger with British Energy, after French peer EDF walked away from a deal for the nuclear power operator, a newspaper report said on Sunday. The Sunday Telegraph, which quoted an unnamed source close to the company, said...

  Tags: Centrica, Electricite de France

• Britain reaches entente nucleaire with French. But will it deliver

  - 2008-08-01

  Outlook Barring last-minute hitches, Electricite de France EDF is today expected to unveil agreed takeover terms for British Energy, owner of the great bulk of the UK's ageing fleet of nuclear power stations. In any event, the press conference has been scheduled and it will certainly be...

  Tags: British Telecommunications, Centrica, Electricite de France

• EDF, Centrica to buy British Energy: reports

  - 2008-07-24

  LONDON AFP — French energy giant EDF and Centrica will buy British Energy for about 12 billion pounds (15.2 billion euros, 23.9 billion dollars) and could announce the deal early next week, reports said Thursday. In reaction, nuclear power operator British Energy confirmed it was in "advanced" talks with...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Centrica

• Research and Markets: Get the New Centrica - SWOT Framework Analysis

  - 2008-05-19

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c92198) has announced the addition of "Centrica - SWOT Framework Analysis" to their offering.

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