Japanese group buys British hotel chain
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A Japanese financial group said it had acquired British hotel operator Menzies, which runs 14 properties around the country, for 120 million pounds (170 million euros, 228 million dollars).
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A consortium led by Japan&#39;s Sony Corporation has bought the Hollywood MGM Studio to mine MGM&#39;s lucrative library for the booming DVD market.
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A group led by JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. agreed to buy UK drugmaker Warner Chilcott Plc for 1.62 billion pounds ($3 billion), outbidding two other private equity firms.
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Nomura Holdings, Japanâs biggest securities firm, will buy a 15 percent stake in the Fortress Investment Group.
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The Blackstone Group agreed to buy the Tussauds Group, owner of the Madame Tussauds wax museums, for Â£1 billion ($1.9 billion) in cash.
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British music company EMI Group Plc will  buy out shares in Toshiba-EMI Ltd., the Japanese joint venture  it had with Toshiba Corp., to expand in the local music  industry, Toshiba said on Thursday.
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Hyatt Corp. has agreed to buy the AmeriSuites hotel chain from affiliates of private equity firm The Blackstone Group, Hyatt said on Thursday.
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Cendant, the worldâs largest travel group, continued its buying spree, saying on Thursday it had agreed to buy privately held Gullivers Travel Associates, the UK-based travel company, and Octopus Travel for about $1.1bn cash.
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Softbank Corp. said Tuesday it will acquire Cable &amp; Wireless IDC Inc., a Japanese unit of British telecommunications firm Cable &amp; Wireless PLC, for 12.
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Hyatt Corporation, the hotel operator owned by the Pritzker family, yesterday said it would buy the AmeriSuites chain from Blackstone, the private equity group, in a deal believed to be worth about $600m.
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UK-based Cable &amp; Wireless, which has been selling off pieces of itself or just discontinuing business in certain world markets it finds unprofitable, is trading its Japanese presence to that country&#39;s Softbank Corp.
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Japan Tobacco Inc has offered to buy British rival Gallaher Group in a deal that could be the largest-ever acquisition by a Japanese firm worth at least 15 billion dollars plus debt.
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UK rail and bus operator FirstGroup agrees to buy US yellow school bus and Greyhound coach operator Laidlaw.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Mar. 6--TOKYO -- Japan Tobacco Inc. said Tuesday antitrust authorities in  Russia and South Africa have unconditionally approved JT's planned acquisition  of British competitor Gallaher Group Plc.
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Britain's biggest bus company FirstGroup Plc  said on Friday it had agreed to buy Laidlaw International Inc. , the U.S. operator of iconic intercity Greyhound buses, for $3.6 billion including debt.
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Amadeus Global Travel Distribution SA has agreed to be acquired by two British private investment funds for about 4.34 billion euros (&#36;5.69 billion), the company's main shareholders said Wednesday in a filing with market regulators.
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LONDON : Cable and Wireless, the British telecoms group, said it had agreed to sell its Japanese unit to Internet service provider Softbank Corp for about 133 million dollars (104 million euros) including debt.