Nestle completes Novartis unit takeover
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Nestle SA completed its $2.5 billion takeover of Novartis Medical Nutrition, the food and drinks giant said Monday.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck MRCG.DE   unveiled a $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm   Serono SEO.VX, and Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of   Altana ALTG.DE.
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Scottish & Newcastle, Britainâs largest brewer, agreed to a Â£7.8 billion ($15.4 billion) takeover by the European rivals Carlsberg and Heineken.
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Genzyme Corp.&#39;s not-yet-completed $1 billion acquisition of Ilex Oncology Inc. appeared to pay off yesterday when an advisory committee to the Food and Drug
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Kraft Foods Inc. KFT.N said on   Wednesday it completed the acquisition of United Biscuits'   Iberian operations and recovered rights to several Nabisco   trademarks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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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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Carlsberg and Heineken on Friday finally agreed a cash bid of 7.8 billion pounds ($15.3 billion) to buy and break up Scottish and Newcastle (S&N) to boost the Danish brewer's position in Russia and the Dutch group's presence in western Europe.
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Soft drink giant Coca-Cola spends makes its largest ever acquisition as it buys a health drink firm for $4.1bn.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Friday it had acquired the privately held biotechnology company Domantis Ltd. for 230 million pounds ($454 million) in cash.
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LONDON - New Jersey-based Honeywell International Inc., the aerospace and high-tech manufacturer, has agreed to buy the British industrial holding company Novar PLC for about $1.7 billion, the companies said Monday.
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PERENNIAL takeover target and suitor National Foods has identified SPC Ardmona as a merger partner in a deal that would add packaged fruit to its own dairy operations and build a major Australian food company.
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Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, Tuesday said it plans to make Chief Executive Peter Brabeck its chairman as well.
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UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle agrees to be bought by Heineken and Carlsberg for Â£7.8bn.
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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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Enablex, also known as darifenacin, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) had purchased the drug from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) for $225 million
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Polish confectionery manufacturer Jutrzenka has finalised financial arrangements for the acquisition of rights to Nestle Polska's Goplana confectionery brand, giving it an instant growth platform in the ...
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