P&G to acquire Gillette for $57bn
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Procter & Gamble strikes a deal to buy Gillette for $57bn, creating the world's biggest stable of consumer brands.
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PepsiCo Inc. on Monday agreed to buy General Mills Inc.&#39;s 40.5 percent stake in a European joint venture between the two food giants for $750 million.
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SMITHS Group, the aerospace to medical products conglomerate, today announced plans to buy United States medical devices maker Medex for around Â£475 million.
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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to  buy Guidant Corp. for $25.4 billion in cash and stock, the  companies said on Wednesday, giving the healthcare products  maker a foothold in the fast-growing market for implantable  devices that regulate heartbeats.
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The Gillette-P&G deal is part of a 'new wave' coming as firms seek growth in a global economy.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson has made a deal to buy Guidant Corp. a producer of medical equipment for patients with heart and circulatory illnesses, for $24 billion in stock and cash.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson has agreed to buy Guidant Corp. for $25.4 billion in cash and stock, the companies said on Wednesday, giving the healthcare products maker a foothold
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French energy services group Compagnie   Generale de Geophysique (CGG) GEPH.PA is to buy Texas-based   Veritas DGC Inc. in a $3.1 billion deal that will make it the   world's biggest listed provider of seismic surveys.
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Massachusetts' top securities regulator this week began investigating Procter & Gamble Co.'s planned acquisition of Boston-based Gillette Co. , and asked the razor maker how much its top executives might earn from the deal.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced a $25.4bn (Â£13.1bn) deal yesterday to buy Guidant Corporation, giving the healthcare company a stake in the fast-growing market for devices that regulate heartbeats.
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Gallaher Group, the maker of the Benson & Hedges brand in Europe, said it had received an offer of Â£7.5 billion ($14.7 billion).
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Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP, a London-based buyout firm, agreed to buy UK vacation and insurance company Saga Ltd. for 1.35 billion pounds ($2.
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U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co.  has agreed to buy British maker of oilfield services equipment Sondex Plc  for 288.7 million pounds ($583.1 million) in cash, the two companies said on Monday.
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David Beckham's bank account is bending &#151; from all the weight. Beckham's five-year contract with Gillette to plug its razors and blades will earn him &#36;61 million.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Sunday that it had won the bidding to acquire Grey Global, based in the United States.
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NEW YORK, December 16  - Oil and gas company Noble Energy (NBL.NYS) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Patina Oil &amp; Gas Corp (POG) in a $3.4 billion cash, stock and debt deal.
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co. chairman and chief executive A.G. Lafley addressed Gillette Co. employees for the first time, a week after P&amp;G said it would acquire Gillette for $57 billion. Speaking at the shaving giant's Boston headquarters, Lafley assured employees that no decisions had been made about which jobs would be eliminated after the merger -- though he acknowledged that ...