'Have you managed to bring any of the kombinates in on our side, put in a joint offer?'

I can't see Cox and Adelphia making a joint offer, or Cox and Charter Communications.

The joint offer would result in the company being owned by the current management, employees and certain investors, it said.

On 20 December 2006, Charlton Athletic made a joint offer for Brown and Thomson, which was rejected by Hibernian.

What other slice joint offers 11 different pizzas in two sizes of rectangles and also as a single-serving quarter-pie?

Curiously, AT&T has stood aside from this scramble, apart from filing a joint offer to build Poland's mobile-telephone system.

That tops a $187 million joint offer from Crazy Eddie's founder, Eddie Antar, and the Belzberg family.

The joint offer from Mr. Broad and Mr. Burkle left analysts more perplexed.

The Hershey Trust also rejected a joint offer by Cadbury and Nestlé worth about $10.5 billion.

Subsequent to this, Middlesbrough had a joint offer for Caldwell and Barry Robson accepted by Celtic.