Emergis shareholders okay Telus offer

VANCOUVER and MONTREAL - Telus and Emergis will soon be one. The companies today announced that a total of approximately 84,876,494 common shares of Emergis representing approximately 94% of the outstanding common shares (on a fully-diluted basis) were validly deposited to the $763 million offer to buy made by Telus, which expired at 5 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on January 16, 2008."We are very pleased with the strong acceptance of our offer," said Joe Natale, president of Telus Business Solutions, in a press release, "and we welcome the Emergis team and its CEO François Côté to the Telus team. We...