Fag ends
17 January 2017

British cigarette maker British American Tobacco has bumped its offer for its U.S. rival, offering $49 bln for the shares it doesn’t already have. The deal should easily hit BAT’s return targets, even if savings aren’t huge. Reynolds was right to hold out.
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