BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Offer
- the price at which a market maker will sell a security, or a unit trust manager in the United Kingdom will sell units. It is also the net asset value of a mutual fund plus any sales charges in the United States. It is the price investors pay when they buy a security.
- Also known as Offer Price
Wiktionary Definition for: Offer
- A proposal that has been made.
- Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
- law : An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the offer.
- To propose something.
- To place at one's disposal.
- To proffer.
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Additional Resources
- What To Do About a Competing Job Offer
- Dear Ron, I work in health care and I've been lucky enough to get an offer from a competing company. Although I like my current job, it's a pretty generous offer. Should I tell my boss and see if my current company will make a counter-offer, or just accept...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Horizon Directors Unhappy With Offer
- Horizon Energy directors are recommending shareholders reject Marlborough Lines' partial takeover offer for 51 per cent of the company.Horizon chairman Rob Tait on Tuesday said the $3.96 a share offer from Marlborough Lines was at the bottom of a valuation range determined by an independent adviser.A month ago, Marlborough...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Zi Rejects Nuance's Acqusition Offer?Again
- It's been a little fun watching Nuance Communications' awkward courtship with Zi Corp. This summer, Nuance offered $40.5 million to acquire Zi, a mobile ad and search firm. And, when Zi declined the offer, Burlington, Mass-based Nuance reacted by filing a patent infringement lawsuit over SMS technology. Then, in...
- External links 2008-12-12
- Autobytel Offer Expires; Trilogy Disappointed
- Greenbackd submits: Trilogy, Inc’s $0.35 per share tender offer for Autobytel Inc ABTL expired yesterday without Trilogy purchasing any shares. Trilogy has sent a letter to the board saying that it will “continue to evaluate [ABTL's] business, its cash position, and its operating performance” and has called on the...
- External links 2009-05-20
- Tandberg Shareholders Reject Cisco $3B Offer
- Tandberg shareholders have rejected a $3 billion bid by Cisco to buy the Norwegian video conferencing equipment maker, apparently looking for a higher offer from Cisco or an-other company. They also appear ready to keep the company independent, according to a Swedish brokerage that represents almost two dozen shareholders. Cisco...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Grey Wolf Shareholders Deserve Better Buyout Offer
- Ockham Research submits: Sunday brought news that Precision Drilling Trust PDS would make another attempt to acquire Grey Wolf, Inc. GW for approximately $2 billion. There have been a flurry of rumors and bids for Grey Wolf since it put itself up for sale. Having already rejected three previous...
- External links 2008-08-25
- Coles axes 40c discount petrol offer
- Treasurer Wayne Swan has welcomed a move by the National Australia Bank to scrap some fees. COLES has spiked a 40c-per-litre petrol discount offer after the competition watchdog said it would reduce competition in the retail petrol industry. "Coles Express proposed to offer discounts of 40c per litre to customers...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Cosmen-CVC ups offer for Nat Express
- The consortium bidding for National Express on Thursday increased the cash on offer by more than 10 per cent to 500p a share or £476m and resolved several of the issues surrounding Stagecoach Group's planned takeover of the transport group's rail business. The moves are the consortium's latest effort to...
- News items 2009-09-03
- Supplier News.(Briefs)(DuPont Co. has increased its share price offer for minority shares in subsidiary DuPont Canada Inc.)(Brief Article)
- DuPont ups offer on minority share price WILMINGTON, DEL. - DuPont Co. has increased its share price offer for minority shares in subsidiary DuPont Canada Inc. by 3.6 percent to C$21.75 (US$15.88). The company also extended its offer to June 16. ...
- Research articles 2003-06-16
- CNBC keeps $3 offer window offer. (Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership $3 per-subscriber offer to cable TV operators)
- MOVES DEADLINE TWICE CNBC Keeps $3 Offer Window Open NEW YORK -- The Consumer News & Business Channel "hasn't closed the window" on its $3 per-subscriber offer to operators who put the network on more than 75 percent...
- Research articles 1990-10-08
- A Closer Look at Actuate's Fluctuating Tender Offer Price
- Tech Confidential submits: JMP Securities LLC analyst Patrick Walravens has more on Actuate Inc.'s ACTU ever-changing $60 million tender offer and the $3.50 a share, $212 million acquisition offer it received last week. In a meeting at the business intelligence software maker's headquarters on Friday, Walravens learned that...
- External links 2008-12-09
- New Roche Offer and Genentech Squeeze-Out Ploy Put Focus on April's Avastin Results
- UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal reports that the boards of Genentech and Roche are "near an agreement" on a $95 a share bid. What are we to make of Roche's new $93 per share offer for Genentech? BNET previously suggested that market conditions were so rough that...
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- MathStar: Will the Tender Offer Stick?
- We’ve been following MathStar MATH for quite some time. Monday night during the last hour of trading in the market, MATH announced it had received a Tender Offer of $1.04 p/s from PureChoice, Inc. The last Tender Offer PureChoice made for MATH was back in November 2008 in which it...
- External links 2009-05-13
- CPP Investment Board Part of Consortium That Submits Offer to Acquire AWG Plc; AWG Plc agrees to recommend cash offer.
- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Oct 2, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- This announcement does not constitute an offer or invitation to sell or purchase any securities. The offer, which will be made by way of an offer document, will not be made in Canada. The CPP...
- Research articles 2006-10-02
- Kaupthing Bank's offer for JP Nordiska reaches acceptance rate of 86% at end of extended offer period
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-4 December 2002-Kaupthing Bank's offer for JP Nordiska reaches acceptance rate of 86% at end of extended offer periodC1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Icelandic investment bank Kaupthing Bank said today (4 December) that its offer for the Swedish investment bank JP Nordiska had reached an acceptance...
- Research articles 2002-12-04
- easyhome Announces Take-Up of Insta-Rent Shares Deposited Under Its Offer and Commencement of Compulsory Acquisition
- easyhome Ltd. (TSX: EH) ("easyhome") and Insta-Rent Inc. (TSX VENTURE: IRR) ("Insta-Rent") jointly announced today that shareholders holding an additional 1,224,510 Insta-Rent shares have accepted the offer dated August 20, 2008, as extended on September 25, 2008 (the "Offer") and tendered such shares pursuant to the Offer. easyhome has taken-up...
- Research articles 2008-10-07
- Mozilla triggers Firefox 3.5 auto update offer
- Computerworld - Mozilla late on Thursday began offering Firefox 3.5 to users still running older versions of the browser, the first of what will likely be several attempts to get people to upgrade before support expires for Firefox 3.0. Firefox 3.5.2, the current version of the edition launched last June,...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within a year
- By Neil HughesPublished: 09:00 AM EST Related AppleInsider articles:China Unicom, Apple iPhone deal is...Apple expected to push for greater living room...Reports say iPhone could be coming to British...AT&T pushing to keep iPhone exclusive through...France, Scandinavia to get more iPhone...Apple's worldwide single-carrier exclusivity model for each nation is seen as fleeting,...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Transurban rejects A$6.8bn takeover offer
- Transurban, owner of toll roads in Australia and the US, said it had rejected a A$6.8bn (US$6.1bn) takeover proposal on Thursday from two Canadian pension schemes on the grounds it undervalued the group. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which already own 28.2 per cent of...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Negotiation Job Offer: Request To Match Or Beat Offer From Another Firm
- Use this template to negotiate the job offer with the firm by making aware the firm that you have received the job offer from any other firm and you are hoping to match the offer or to beat the offer.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
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