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By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports  A company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has acquired the operations of a Nowata manufacturer.
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Natick-based edocs Inc. is being acquired by San Mateo, Calif.-based Siebel Systems Inc. for $115 million in cash. The deal&#39;s size could expand if edocs meets unspecified performance goals next year.
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A Canadian steel maker, Ipsco, said it was buying the NS Group, a maker of steel pipes and tubes used in oil fields, for about $1.46 billion. The deal will be used to broaden IpscoÂs sales to the energy industry, the chief executive, David Sutherland, said. ÂThis is a transaction thatÂs all about growth, and if anything, what we will see over the next three years is a growth in the output of all of their facilities, as well as the continuing demand on our own,Â Mr. Sutherland said in a conference call. Ipsco agreed to pay $66 a share for the NS Group, which was a 43 percent premium to its closing price on Friday. After the transaction is complete, the new company is expected to have combined annual revenue of more than $4 billion. Ipsco, which is based in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has executive offices in Leslie, Ill., operates three steel mills and six pipe mills in the United States and Canada. The NS Group is based in Newport, Ky.
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Twenty-nine-time Dutch league champion Ajax Amsterdam acquired Greece&#39;s European Championship hero Angelos Charisteas on Thursday, transferring the striker from German club Werder Bremen for a reported euro5 million ($6.7
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The creation of a single European gas market took a step forward yesterday with the Dutch government taking control of its country&#39;s gas transport network from Royal Dutch/Shell and ExxonMobil.
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Japanese nonlife insurer Millea Holdings Inc. said Friday it will acquire British insurer Kiln Ltd. for 442 million pounds (900 million dollars) in a bid to expand its operations abroad.
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Telephone number and area code  clearing firm NeuStar, Inc.  said on Monday it acquired  Followap, Inc., a UK-based provider of mobile instant messaging  products, for $139 million in cash.
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LONDON, October 28  - Royal Dutch/Shell Group has announced its plans to merge its two holding companies in the Netherlands and the UK, Royal Dutch Petroleum (ROY.
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The money will let ASIP Inc. (Somerset, N.J.) expand R&D at both the Netherlands-based former home of ThreeFive Photonics B.V., which ASIP acquired last year, and a photonics lab at Eindhoven Technical ...
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Gate Gourmet, an  airline catering company, announced yesterday that it would acquire deSter Holding of Amsterdam, one of the world's largest suppliers of cutlery, chinaware and amenity kits for passengers.
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Reuters has acquired a data company in a Â£97m deal just days after announcing 100 job losses from its news bureaux. The financial information group has paid $100m - Â£55m - in cash for the loss-making market
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BP said it had agreed to buy Chevronâs manufacturing company in the Netherlands, Texaco Raffinaderij Pernis, for about $900 million, excluding working capital and hydrocarbon inventory. BP will acquire Chevronâs 31 percent minority shareholding in the Netherlands Refining Company as well as Chevronâs stake in the jointly owned wind farm located at the refinery; shareholdings in the nearby crude oil terminal and storage facility; and a number of associated pipelines. The deal, which is expected to be completed during the first half of the year, would make the refinery a 100 percent BP- owned asset.
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Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis said that its international insurance arm will acquire the Ukranian insurer Etalon Life, for 7.6 million euros (9.7 million dollars).
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Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos., Exxon Mobil Corp. and the Dutch government struck a deal Monday giving the Netherlands - the third-largest gas producer in Europe - more control of the Dutch gas company Gasunie.
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OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell, to be formed from the merger of Netherlands-based Royal Dutch and London-based Shell Transport &amp; Trading, is understood to be considering sharply-increased performance-related bonus packages for leading directors such as new
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Honeywell International Inc., the world&#39;s largest supplier of building controls, agreed to buy Novar Plc for 798 million pounds ($1.53 billion) to expand its security, fire and ventilation-systems business in Europe.
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"We will invest, we'll put new blood into the company ... with acquisitions worldwide"  Endemol's new owners will invest and look at acquisitions worldwide, John De Mol, who founded the television content company and is now buying it with Italy's Mediaset , told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper. via Reuters UK