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Canadian telecom giant Cogeco on Sunday definitively rejected an increased takeover bid from Altice USA, citing the company's "enviable" market position and continued profitability under current ownership.





Just hours after Altice USA announced it had upped its purchase offer, Cogeco's controlling shareholder -- Montreal's Audet family -- released a statement saying they "unanimously reject this further proposal."





"We are not interested in selling our shares," said Gestion Audem president Louis Audet in the statement.













"This is not a negotiating strategy, but a definitive refusal."





The Audet family, he said, had allowed the company to grow and prosper.





"Today, Cogeco enjoys a unique and enviable position as the only broadband services company with a significant presence in both Canada and 자동차보험추천 the United States."He also noted that the company "far outperforms those of either" Altice USA or 비교견적 Toronto-based Rogers, which was set to buy Cogeco's Canadian operations if the deal went ahead.Altice USA, a subsidiary of French tycoon Patrick Drahi's media and telecom empire, earlier in the day said it had increased its takeover bid to Can$11.1 billion ($8.4 billion) from the Can$10.3 billion proposed in early September.- No deal?













-Altice USA was primarily interested in acquiring the Montreal-based firm's Atlantic Broadband US operations.Atlantic Broadband is the ninth-largest cable distributor 자동차보험추천 in the US, 비교견적 and an acquisition would have enabled Altice USA to add more than 1.1 million additional individuals and businesses to its customer por


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<br><br> Altice USA's sweetened offer had included Can$900 million to the Audet family, versus an initial Can$800 million, for their owner





<br><br> Created in 1957 by Henri Audet, Cogeco is the second-largest cable distributor in Ontario and Quebec -- Canada's two most populous provinces -- where it provides internet, video and telephone services.













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