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Mittal ups bid for Arcelor.


Mittal Steel Co. has increased the per-share price it is offering for European European

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 steelmaker Arcelor, andas of late May the business press viewed the deal as likelier to happen.

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 a Bloomberg News report, Arcelor's board of directors was considering the most recent proposal while meeting in Luxembourg. The board also reportedly asked Mittal Steel to see a business plan, indicating a greater level of interest than what was demonstrated when Arcelor outright rejected the first bid in late January.

In the second offer, Mittal Steel and its chairman Lakshmi Mittal Lakshmi Narayan Mittal[1] (or Lakshmi Nivas Mittal) (लक्ष्मी िनवास मित्तल  increased the offer by some 34 percent. Mittal Steel is hoping to either sway Arecelor CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Guy Dolle, who has reacted negatively to the deal, or to persuade the board and shareholders to overrule The refusal by a judge to sustain an objection set forth by an attorney during a trial, such as an objection to a particular question posed to a witness. To make void, annul, supersede, or reject through a subsequent decision or action.  Dolle.

Should the deal occur, the newly combined company would be an estimated three-times larger than any of its global rivals, according to Bloomberg News.

In addition to Dolle, objections to the deal have also come from some European elected officials, particularly in Luxembourg, where Arcelor is based, and in France, where the company has many steelmaking facilities.
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Publication:Recycling Today
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Date:Jun 1, 2006
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