Pricetag put to supermodel Klum's legs: 1.62 mln euros
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German-born supermodel Heidi Klum's legs have been valued at 1.1 million pounds (1.62 million euros, 1.96 million dollars) by a London auction house that specialises in putting estimates to jewelry.
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or about less than half what the current model weighs -- will be sold at $149 per unit in North American markets and at 149 euros in Europe starting November 1st.
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Rexel , the world's biggest electrical parts distributor, officially launched its 3.1 billion euro ($4.45 billion) bid for Dutch rival Hagemeyer  on Friday, assisted by privately owned Sonepar.
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The Dutch navigation systems company said it plans to make a cash offer of 21.25 euros per share for digital map supplier Tele Atlas, valuing the company at 2 billion euros ($2.76 billion).
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Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, the owner of fashion brands like Gucci, said that it planned to sell its stake in the equipment parts distributor Rexel.
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Rexel , the world's biggest  electrical parts distributor, officially launched on Friday its  3.1 billion euro ($4.45 billion) or 4.85 euros per share bid  for Dutch rival Hagemeyer .
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Per la prima volta il fatturato superera' un mld di euro
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PPR SA, the French owner of the Gucci luxury brand, said a $7.3 billion bid for German sporting goods maker Puma AG succeeded after almost two-thirds of investors accepted its offer.
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Makeup magnate and fine art enthusiast Ronald Lauder has paid 135 million dollars, the highest known price ever paid for a painting, for a 1907 Gustav Klimt portrait.
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The drugmaker signed a deal to authorize a generic form of its osteoporosis drug Fosamax, which has annual sales of $3 billion, making it the worldâs top-selling drug for osteoporosis.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Permira have agreed to buy ProSiebenSat.1 in a deal that  values the German broadcaster at 5.6 billion euros ($7.4  billion), KKR and Permira said on Thursday.
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Euros? Dollars? Pounds? Gisele Bundchen insists she's perfectly happy with them all, again denying reports that the Brazilian supermodel is shunning the weak U.S. dollar in favor of European currency.
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Commerzbank , which has been  persistently cited as a possible takeover target, jumped 2.2  percent to 37.8 euros, its highest in nearly seven years on  market talk Citigroup  was likely to bid about 45 euros  for the bank.
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LâOrÃ©al, the worldâs largest cosmetics maker, said profit rose in 2006 as the company sold more LancÃ´me luxury makeup and Armani Code perfume. Net income climbed to 1.83 billion euros ($2.4 billion), after adjustment for some items, from 1.64 billion euros in 2005, the company said. Revenue for the year rose 8.7 percent, to 15.8 billion euros. In the fourth quarter, it rose 10 percent, to 4.2 billion euros. Sales of luxury cosmetics rose 5.3 percent in the year, helped by Armani Code perfume, while revenue from antiwrinkle products like Normaderm Nuit from Vichy rose 14 percent. LâOrÃ©al, which is based in Paris, said costs related to the acquisition of the Body Shop retail chain last year and an increase in expenses for research and development would hurt profit this year.
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Forget the Runway. Heidi Klum's next project could be in the courtroom.   Van Cleef & Arpels filed suit against the Project Runway host in Manhattan's federal court last week, claiming that her jewelry line ripped off their clover design.   The pap...
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It's all right there in the tagline: Heidi Klum cuts, the designers   sew.
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A nude portrait of pregnant supermodel  Kate Moss by one of Britain's most renowned artists, Lucian  Freud, sold for 3.93 million pounds ($7.32 million) at a London  auction on Wednesday.