Nestle to Buy Novartis Nutrition Unit
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VEVEY, Switzerland -- Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, will buy the medical nutrition unit of pharmaceutical company Novartis for $2.5 billion, the companies said Thursday.
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PepsiCo. Inc., the world&#39;s No. 2 soft- drink maker, plans to buy General Mills Inc.&#39;s 40.5 percent stake in their European snacks joint venture for $750 million in cash.
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Honeywell International Inc. of the United States is offering 1.2 billion pounds (US$2.4 billion; euro1.7 billion) to buy Novar PLC, the two companies said Monday.
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The French dairy and mineral water giant Danone plans to make an offer for Dutch baby food group Numico valued at 12.3 billion euros (16.7 billion dollars), the companies said Monday in a joint statement.
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Cola Enterprises, Pez International, Grohe, Cargill, Heinz, Heineken, xpdex, Godiva, Valvoline, 3M Unitek, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol Myers Squibb.
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NOVAR, the UK conglomerate, is recommending that its shareholders accept an Â£800 million cash bid from Honeywell International, the aerospace to transport multinational.
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Honeywell (HON:NYSE - news - research) is in talks to purchase UK industrial holding Novar for $1.52 billion, according to reports.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group   plans to buy Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., known for its  Vlasic pickles brand, for about $2.16 billion, the companies  said on Monday.
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PepsiCo. Inc., the world&#39;s No. 2 soft- drink maker, plans to buy General Mills Inc.&#39;s stake in their European joint venture for $750 million in cash, giving it complete ownership of Europe&#39;s largest snack-food company.
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Nestle SA, the world's largest food maker, may buy baby-food company Gerber Products along with a medical nutrition business from Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG for as much as $5 billion, according to a published report.
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Nestle SA, the world's largest foodmaker, may buy baby-food company Gerber Products from Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG for as much as $5 billion, according to a published report.
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Switzerland's Nestle  bought  U.S. weight-loss company Jenny Craig for around $600 million,  it said on Monday, expanding its high-margin nutrition and  health business.
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YESTERDAY Close $54.13 Change -$1.32 52-WEEK High $61.60 Low $53.22 Drug maker Novartis AG posted an 18 percent rise in second-quarter earnings, led by strong sales across its divisions.
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San Miguel, the largest food and beverage maker in the Philippines, said Thursday that it had agreed to buy National Foods, Australia&#39;s biggest dairy company, for 1.78 billion Australian dollars, or $1.4 billion, raising the prospect of a bidding war with
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29/10/2004 National Foods will hunt for a &quot;white knight&quot; to protect it from Fonterra`s $A1.62 billion ($NZ1.76 billion) bid, raising the risk New Zealand dairy farmers will get dragged into an expensive bidding war.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--New Zealand dairy group Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd. (FCO.YY) will outline its takeover bid on Thursday for Australian rival National Foods Ltd.
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A media group owned by U.S. billionaire Ronald Lauder is buying a controlling interest the Czech television network TV Nova for about $642 million, the company said Monday.