Brazilian meat firm buys Swift for $225m
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J&amp;F Participacoes SA, which controls JBS SA, Latin America's biggest meat producer, agreed to acquire Swift &amp; Co. of the United States for $225 million in cash to create the world's largest beef and pork processor.
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ConAgra Foods Inc. (CAG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate &amp; Furst Inc. exercised its option to buy the company&#39;s minority stake
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Albatros Plant Nutrition, which was part of the McDonogh group, has been sold to Timac Agri business, a subsidiary of the French fertilizer company Roullier.
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Fisher &amp; Paykel Appliance Holdings Ltd announced the acquisition of US manufacturer Dynamic Cooking Systems Inc (DCS) for a total of $NZ83.
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The Perrigo Company, the world's largest maker of store-branded over-the-counter drugs, reached an agreement to buy Agis Industries, a developer and manufacturer of prescription generic drugs.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc  has bought  global rights to Danish biotech company Genmab's  most  promising new drug, a treatment for leukemia, in a record deal  worth up to $2.1 billion, the two firms said on Tuesday.
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The Brazilian food producer is poultry in motion.
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British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has said that it had agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds (339 million euros, 451 million dollars) in cash.
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MONTREAL/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  has agreed to buy Canada's Alcan Inc.  for $38.1 billion to create the world's largest aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc.
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PARIS Sanofi-SynthÃ©labo, which this month completed its $63 billion purchase of a rival drug manufacturer, Aventis, reported Tuesday a 21 percent jump in first-half profit on higher demand for the blood thinner Plavix and the cancer treatment Eloxatin.
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BRUSSELS/SAO PAULO  - Shareholders gave their  blessing on Friday for Belgium's Interbrew INTB.BR to buy  Brazil's AmBev AMBV4.SA in a $9.7 billion deal that  will create the world's largest brewer.
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TAM, Brazilâs largest airline by passengers carried, agreed to purchase 26 Airbus planes for around $5.4 billion to expand its international routes. The airline, based in SÃ£o Paulo, said it signed a deal to buy 22 Airbus A350 planes and exercised an earlier option to buy 4 A330 models. The company secured an option to buy 10 additional A350s in the future. The A330s will be delivered in 2010 and 2011. TAM operates direct flights to Paris, London, Milan, New York and Miami.
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Brazilian wireless provider Claro, a unit of Latin American telecom giant America Movil, has reportedly agreed to buy Telecom Italia's TIM mobile phone operations for eight billion euros.
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Belgium's Interbrew won approval from  shareholders on Friday to buy Brazil's AmBev in a deal valued  at about 8 billion euros ($9.7 billion), surpassing  Anheuser-Busch as the world's biggest brewer.
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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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Serono SA , one of the world's largest biotechnology companies, was bought yesterday by German chemical giant Merck KGaA in a deal worth more than $13 billion.
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Belgium&#39;s Interbrew won approval from shareholders on Friday to buy Brazil&#39;s AmBev in a deal valued at about 8 billion euros ($9.