British American Tobacco confirms Reynolds American scoop (s?)

It's taken two years but British American Tobacco has finally got round to confirming a piece I wrote in the The Times a couple years ago about the giant cigarette group hiring Deutsche Bank alongside UBS with a view to making a $47 billion bid for Reynolds American.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/consumer/article4086903.ece

and here is today's announcement:

http://www.investegate.co.uk/british-am--tobacco--bats-/rns/bat-proposes-merger-with-reynolds/201610210700071162N/..

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Date: Friday, 21 October 2016, 8:04 am

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