B&Q to end sale of patio heaters
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Science & environment: DIY chain to stop selling environmentally damaging heaters once current stock is sold off
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An investor group that worked for more than a year to buy the state&#39;s third largest electric utility threw in the towel Thursday and pulled its approximately $3 billion offer off the table.
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9.15am: The BBC has closed a Â£2bn deal with Siemens Business Services for the contracting out of its technology wing. The ten-year Technology Framework Contract, approved by the government, will see the corporation save an estimated Â£30m a year.
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One of Britain's biggest property funds shuts its doors to withdrawals after panic selling
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The retailer's same-store sales decline.
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Williams Cos. announced Thursday that it is abandoning efforts to sell its energy trading business, the once high-flying unit whose collapse nearly led to the company&#39;s insolvency.
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The controversial pesticide used to protect new homes from termites will be sold beyond a deadline that requires it to be phased out at the end of the month.
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CHICAGO -- Vornado Realty Trust said Wednesday it was withdrawing its $23.2 billion cash-and-stock buyout offer for Equity Office Properties Trust, ending a bidding war hours before the real estate company's shareholders were scheduled to vote on a competing offer from the private equity firm...
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General Electric Co.  and Abbott Laboratories Inc.  said on Wednesday they terminated a proposed $8 billion deal for the sale of two Abbott diagnostics units to the conglomerate.
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The controversial pesticide is used to protect new homes from termites. The move by the chemical company ends speculation that the administration might extend a phaseout deadline the two parties negotiated four years ago.
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Private equity firm Carlyle Group  has closed its $4.9 billion acquisition of U.S. nursing home operator Manor Care Inc , Manor Care said on Friday, after a temporary order against the deal was lifted in Michigan.
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National Grid Transco, the pipes and pylons company, yesterday announced a Â£6bn deal to sell half its gas distribution business. The move pleased the City but alarmed unions and consumer groups.
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TROUBLED nuclear power group British Energy yesterday said it was removing itself from the stock market in a bid to stop rebel shareholders scuppering its rescue package.
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Beazer Homes USA Inc  said on Friday it would cease some operations, including mortgage origination, causing unspecified charges.
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The deal, announced Thursday, brings to an end a 16-year run for Reader's Digest as a publicly traded company. It was not yet clear whether the deal would result in management changes
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American Standard Cos., the maker of Trane air conditioners, has agreed to sell its bath-and-kitchen unit for $1.76 billion to Bain Capital Partners LLC, a Boston private equity firm, as part of a plan to break up the company.
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- Home Depot Inc  said it completed the sale of its wholesale supply business, HD Supply, to buyout firms on the same terms announced earlier this week.