Bayer sells Starck to Advent, Carlyle for $908 mln
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German drugs and chemicals group Bayer  said it planned to sell unit H.C. Starck to a consortium formed by Advent International and the Carlyle Group for 700 million euros ($908 million) plus debt.
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Nestle , the world's largest food group, is buying the medical nutrition business of Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG  for $2.525 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- CSM (NL:33426) eased 0.8 percent after saying it expects to sell its sugar confectionary unit for 850 million euros to private equity investor CVC Capital Partners.
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Rite Aid Corp. , the No. 3 U.S.  drugstore chain, on Thursday said it will buy the Brooks and  Eckerd drugstore chains from Canada's Jean Coutu Group (PJC)  Inc. (PJCa.TO) for about $2.6 billion in cash and stock.
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The price for Onex Corp., Canada's biggest buyout firm, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to buy Raytheon Co.'s aircraft unit is about $3 billion, a person with knowledge of the agreement said.
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General Mills Inc. GIS.N on  Monday said it will sell an $835 million stake in its cereal  business to an affiliate of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc.  LEH.N and use the money to buy back 16.5 million of its  common shares from Diageo Plc DGE.L.
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Germany&#39;s Roechling family completed the sale of its stake in weapons-maker Rheinmetall AG to institutional investors for 561 million euros ($743 million), people familiar with the transaction said.
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Business-software maker Cognos will buy Swedish financial-reporting software company Frango for $52.2 million. Cognos says the acquisition will strengthen its portfolio of corporate performance
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German banking and insurance giant Allianz said Wednesday it has sold its the life insurance activities of its British unit Allianz Cornhill to rival group Britannic for 110 million pounds (about 159 million ...
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Bayer AG, Germany&#39;s second-biggest drug and chemical maker, formed a partnership with US rival Schering-Plough Corp. to market some of Bayer&#39;s biggest medicines after sales lagged in the second quarter.
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The Bayer Corporation, a subsidiary of the Bayer Group of Germany, has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $33 million criminal fine for taking part in a conspiracy
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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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German chemical and drug maker Bayer AG announced Monday it has entered a strategic alliance with the Schering-Plough Corporation that will have the New Jersey-based company market and distribute Bayer&#39;s primary care pharmaceutical products in the United
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German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said that it has agreed to sell its metals subsidiary HC Starck to private equity firms Advent and Carlyle for about 1.2 billion euros (1.6 billion dollars) in total.
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The European Commission clears German drug firm Bayer's 2.3bn euro acquisition of Swiss company Roche's over the counter medicines business.
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PQ Corp., the specialty chemicals  business, said on Friday it was being sold to private equity  buyout firm Carlyle Group  for $1.5 billion.
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Ihop Corp., the largest US pancake-house chain, agreed to buy Applebee's International Inc. for $1.9 billion and sell securities backed by franchisee fees to finance the purchase.