LONDON: Britain’s second biggest supermarket chain, J. Sainsbury plc, threatened yesterday to trump an agreed takeover offer for rival chain Safeway using cash and shares worth £3.2bil.
Sainsbury, stung into action by an all-share bid for Safeway from William Morrison Supermarkets last week, said it was considering offering more than 300p per share for the country’s fourth largest food retailer.
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