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Sportswear maker Adidas to buy Reebok$3.8 billion deal boosts company's prospects of challenging NikeUpdated: 8:36 a.m. ET Aug. 3, 2005━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Adidas-Salomon AG said Wednesday it will buy shoemaker Reebok International Ltd. for $3.8 billion, giving the company about 20 percent of the U.S. market and putting it in a position to better challenge leader Nike Inc.Under the terms of the deal, Adidas will pay $59 per share for all of Reebok's outstanding stock, a premium of 34 percent on Tuesday's closing price.Adidas-Salomon AG:阿迪达斯－所罗门公司[1997年adidas股份公司与所罗门(Salomon)公司合并，组成了阿迪达斯-所罗门股份公司(adidas- Salomon AG)。]shoemaker(n.):鞋类制造商Reebok International Ltd.:锐步国际有限公司billion(n.):十亿Nike Inc.:耐克公司outstanding stock:流通在外股 已发行股premium(n.):额外费用closing price:收盘价格━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━“Today's announcement represents a major strategic milestone for our group,” said Adidas-Salomon Chairman and CEO Herbert Hainer. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to combine two of the most respected and well-known companies in the worldwide sporting goods industry.”strategic(adj.):战略性的milestone(n.):转折点 里程碑CEO:Chief Executive OfficerHerbert Hainer:赫伯特·海纳(adidas公司首席执行官)once-in-a-lifetime(adj.):一生只有一次的combine(v.):合并━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hainer said the combined company would have an expanded global reach, with a sharp push into North America. “With Reebok, we are advancing our position on the playing field of the sporting goods industry and are improving our financial strength to drive increased shareholder value,” he said.Reebok Chairman and CEO Paul Fireman said the deal would put the company on track to take on Nike directly, among others.“With Adidas, we are able to offer an enhanced portfolio of global brands that truly addresses the needs of today's and tomorrow's consumers,” he said.shareholder value:股东价值Paul Fireman:保罗·弗尔曼(Reebok公司首席执行官)take on:与..较量 etcenhanced(adj.):增强的 提高的portfolio(n.):资产组合address(v.):针对consumer(n.):消费者━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━From AP [消息来源 美联社]
2005年08月03日 14点08分
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