Japan Tobacco to buy Gallaher for 19 billion dollars
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Japan Tobacco Inc has said it has reached an agreement to buy British rival Gallaher Group for 2.25 trillion yen (19.1 billion dollars) including debt, in Japan's biggest ever corporate acquisition.
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Gruppo Gallaher ai massimi su voci offerta Japan Tobacco
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Gallaher, the maker of Silk Cut and Benson & Hedges cigarettes, says it has been approached by a buyer.
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INDIANAPOLIS - New Jersey-based health care products giant Johnson &amp; Johnson is buying Guidant Corp., one of the world&#39;s top makers of cardiac devices, for about $25.4 billion in cash and stock.
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco  agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis  on Wednesday in a 16.2 billion euros ($22.4 billion) deal that includes debt.
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Gallaher Group Plc, the UK maker of Benson &amp; Hedges and Silk Cut cigarettes, said first-half profit rose 31 percent as the company sold more tobacco in Eastern Europe.
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LONDON, November 18  - Mitsubishi Corp (7211.TSE), Japanâs largest trading company, has agreed to purchase 11.75 million preferred shares, worth Â¥ 9.4 billion (US$ 90 million), of Isuzu Motors (ISU).
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Dow said it will receive about $9.5 billion from a unit of Kuwait Petroleum for contributing five of its global businesses worth about $19 billion to the petrochemicals joint venture.
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LONDON, October 26  - The world&#39;s second-largest cigarette maker, British American Tobacco Plc (BMT.ETR) reported a 13.
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Japan Tobaccoâs Canadian unit was ordered by an Ontario judge to stand trial on charges it defrauded the Canadian government out of about a billion Canadian dollars ($931 million) in the 1990s by shipping cigarettes to the United States to avoid paying taxes. The judge, David Fairgrieve of Ontario Provincial Court, said in a 29-page ruling that prosecutors had presented enough evidence to warrant a trial of the unit, JTI-MacDonald. The company has denied any wrongdoing.
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco  has  agreed to buy Commonwealth Brands, the fourth-biggest cigarette  maker in the United States, but its shares fell on Thursday as  speculation faded it might be a bid target itself.
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Japanese trading house Itochu Corp., seeing future growth in the United States, said Tuesday it had bought a power station in the southeastern state of Virginia.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. confirmed on Friday it  was in talks to buy smaller rival Gallaher Group Plc, in a 7.5  billion pound ($14.7 billion) deal that would extend its  overseas expansion.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. has agreed to acquire Britain's Gallaher Group PLC for $18.79 billion (2.2 trillion yen) in the largest-ever corporate acquisition by a Japanese company, a business daily reported Friday.
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British tobacco company Gallaher  Group Plc. said on Wednesday it had received a takeover  approach, with sources close to the situation saying the  potential bidder was likely to be Japan Tobacco Inc.
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Osaka Gas Co. , Japan's second largest natural gas distributor, said on Friday it has agreed to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia's far east.
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The world's third largest cigarette  group, Japan Tobacco Inc (2914.T), on Thursday made a 7.5  billion pound ($14.7 billion) cash offer for rival Gallaher  Group Plc , sources close to the situation said.