The takeover attempt started last year with the popular short pink coat.

The offer was rejected and those companies eventually abandoned their takeover attempt.

Normally players are limited to one purchase or takeover attempt per turn.

A shareholder rights plan makes a takeover attempt much more expensive.

He stood in the way of a 2008 takeover attempt by Microsoft that valued the company at $47.5 billion.

Analysts said that any takeover attempt would be hard fought.

The takeover attempt, if approved by the board, is not guaranteed success.

So much value has dropped out of the market that some local companies feel themselves vulnerable to takeover attempts.

But that may keep the price of its stock lower in the short term, inviting a takeover attempt.

This left the company an attractive target for a takeover attempt.