April 12- Qatar is in talks to buy some or all of Milan's newly built Porta Nuova business district as Italy's economic crisis squeezes its U.S. developer, several sources have told Reuters.
*JAB aims to close gap on coffee leaders Nestle, Mondelez. AMSTERDAM, April 12- German investor Joh A Benckiser is to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee in a 7.5- billion-euro deal to create a global hot drinks empire aimed at taking on market leaders Nestle and Mondelez.
HONG KONG, April 8- Hong Kong shares may record a third-straight day of declines on Monday, tracking Friday's Wall Street losses after underwhelming U.S. jobs data stoked worries about the recovery in the world's largest economy.
*Says JAB proposing 12.75 euros per share. AMSTERDAM, March 28- D.E Master Blenders 1753 said on Thursday it received a 6.4- billion-euro takeover offer from German investor Joh A Benckiser, sending shares of the Dutch coffee and tea maker up more than 25 percent.
AMSTERDAM, March 28- German investor Joh A Benckiser is in talks over a 6.4- billion-euro deal to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee and bolster its position in a hot drinks industry benefiting from innovation and emerging market growth.
AMSTERDAM, March 28- German investor Joh A Benckiser is in talks over a 6.4- billion-euro deal to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee and bolster its position in a hot drinks industry benefiting from innovation and emerging market growth.
*Previous branding effort with Prada flopped. *Hyundai trying to compete at home against BMW, Mercedes.
March 26- Aeropostale Inc lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the teen clothing retailer of defrauding shareholders in 2011 by hiding problems with excess inventory and slow sales that ultimately weighed on its earnings and stock price.
TOKYO, March 22- Given Kate Spade Saturday's bold designs, bright colours and creative flair, it was probably only fitting that the new lifestyle brand opened its first flagship store in fashion-obsessed Tokyo.
*Cyprus scrambling to avert a financial meltdown. In Cyprus, cash is king. "I plan to have at least 1,000 euros on me at all times," Constantinos Tsissios, a 34- year-old banker, said at a downtown ATM in the capital, Nicosia.
MUMBAI, March 18- Women who drink, long portrayed as less than respectable by Bollywood movies and still wary of entering most watering holes, are becoming big business in socially conservative India.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8- Luxury department store operator Neiman Marcus is shutting its eBay Inc store, a setback for the e-commerce company, which has been trying to lure large retailers to its online marketplace.
NEW YORK, March 4- Spain's Amancio Ortega, the co-founder of the Inditex fashion group, leapt over Warren Buffett and France's Bernard Arnault to become the world's third richest person on Forbes' 2013 annual ranking of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $57 billion.
PARIS, March 2- Jean Paul Gaultier served up a fun, funky patchwork of outfits for his ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris on Saturday where a heavy emphasis on leather and rocker chic added to the anything goes Bohemian style.