{"id":69,"date":"2007-02-28T19:49:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=69"},"modified":"2007-02-28T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T19:49:36","slug":"ms-takerover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/02\/28\/ms-takerover-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;S takerover bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marks and Spencer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/stocks\/quote?symbol=MKS.L\">Quote<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/stocks\/companyProfile?symbol=MKS.L\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/stocks\/researchReports?symbol=MKS.L\">Research<\/a>) declined immediate comment on Wednesday on a report its Chief Executive Stuart Rose is considering a bid for Britain&#8217;s number three supermarket owner J. Sainsbury (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/stocks\/quote?symbol=SBRY.L\">Quote<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/stocks\/companyProfile?symbol=SBRY.L\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/stocks\/researchReports?symbol=SBRY.L\">Research<\/a>).<span id=\"midArticle_byline\" \/><span id=\"midArticle_0\" \/>News agency Bloomberg reported Rose saying: &#8220;Assets like this don&#8217;t come on the market very often. The company is effectively in play. Your shareholders would think you were an idiot if you didn&#8217;t consider it. Watch this space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_1\" \/>A Marks and Spencer spokeswoman said the company was not immediately able to comment. The Takeover Panel, which monitors company bids, was also not available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marks and Spencer (Quote, Profile, Research) declined immediate comment on Wednesday on a report its Chief Executive Stuart Rose is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-takeoversmergers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}