How to Use takeover bid in a Sentence

takeover bid

noun

• Fortress came to the rescue once more, offering to help fund Kushner’s takeover bid.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
• The layoffs come amid rumors that the company has received a takeover bid from a private equity firm, Reuters has reported.
  — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• Or perhaps, Salas added, the executive had been proving an obstacle to a takeover bid that promised to reward shareholders.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2023
• The moves put the stamp of the company’s new chief executive, Tony Spring, on an effort to keep the largest department store operator in the United States profitable and stave off a pending takeover bid.
  — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• But some 18% of shareholders who were not affiliated with Imax’s takeover bid voted against the buyout, exceeding the 10% threshold required to defeat the proposal.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• Also last year, the grocer proposed acquiring rival Albertsons in a $25 billion takeover bid that regulators at the Federal Trade Commission are mulling whether to approve or fight.
  — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 15 June 2023
• Boesky later named Icahn to prosecutors investigating the unsuccessful takeover bid as possible market manipulation.
  — Chris Dolmetsch, Fortune, 16 May 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024