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(Drops extraneous &aposof&apos in first paragraph)By Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung KimNEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - PODS Enterprises Inc, a U.S. moving and storage company managed by private equity firm Eagle Merchant Partners, is exploring a sale that could value it at around $1 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.Atlanta-based Eagle Merchant, whose team came from

(Adds that Barclays declined to comment)By Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung KimNEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Eagle Merchant Partners, a private equity firm, is exploring a sale of PODS Enterprises Inc that could value the U.S. moving and storage company at about $1 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.Atlanta-based Eagle Merchant, whose team came from bankrupt Bahraini

By Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung KimNEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Eagle Merchant Partners, a private equity firm, is exploring a sale of PODS Enterprises Inc that could value the U.S. moving and storage company at about $1 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.Atlanta-based Eagle Merchant, whose team came from bankrupt Bahrain investment firm Arcapita Bank BSCC, has

Go to any provincial city in China -- small hayseed towns where the population barely nudges three million people -- and you'd be forgiven for thinking the national youth pastimes, after smoking, are online gaming and flirting.

The Takaful landscape in Malaysia is evolving at a fast pace, faster even than developments in the conventional insurance sector.

Adnan Durrani, founder and CEO of US-based Saffron Road Foods was the recipient of last year's first-ever Islamic Economy Awards in the halal food sector and, since the win, his business has grown in leaps and bounds.