November 16, 20240 Comments

Bid to soften change rejected by Treasury

Getty Images The Chancellor announced an end to inheritance tax exemption for farms in October. A bid by the department for rural affairs to soften changes to inheritance tax for farms – possibly by exempting some older farmers – has been rejected by the Treasury. The Treasury said there would be no change or mitigations to the policy, which will see an end to inheritance tax exemption for some farms.

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November 13, 20240 Comments

Planet Fitness loses 11th hour bid to acquire bankrupt Blink

In an aerial view, customers leave a Planet Fitness gym on May 09, 2024 in Richmond, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Planet Fitness lost its bid in bankruptcy court to acquire budget fitness chain Blink Holdings, according to court filings viewed by CNBC. Planet Fitness placed its competing eleventh hour bids early this month during a 48-hour challenge window. The two higher bids came after it lost out in

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November 13, 20240 Comments

Race for Japanese 7-Eleven owner heats up with founding family bid By Reuters

By Ritsuko Shimizu and Kane Wu TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Seven & i Holdings has received a buyout proposal from a member of its founding Ito family, it said on Wednesday, a potential $58 billion white-knight bid as it weighs a rival offer from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard The offer for Ito-Kogyo, a company linked to Vice President Junro Ito and a top shareholder in 7-Eleven owner, is non-binding and under review

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November 8, 20240 Comments

Experts hail breakthrough in bid to save native bird

Desert National Park A great Indian bustard chick was recently conceived through artificial insemination in India’s Rajasthan Last month brought good news for the great Indian bustard, a critically endangered bird found mainly in India. Wildlife officials in the western state of Rajasthan have performed the first successful hatching of a chick through artificial insemination. A lone adult male in one of two breeding centres in Jaisalmer city was trained

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