P&G to Buy Gillette for $55.8 Billion
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Procter & Gamble Co. PG.N on Friday  said it would buy Gillette Co. G.N in a deal worth about  $55.8 billion, uniting two of the world's largest makers of  household goods ranging from Pampers diapers to Duracell  batteries.
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Swedish hygiene and paper product  maker SCA (SCAb.ST) said on Monday it had signed a deal to buy  all of Procter & Gamble's  European tissue operations for  512 million euros ($672 million) in cash.
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Manor Care Inc. , the largest U.S. owner of nursing homes, on Monday said it agreed to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion, the latest health-care provider taken off the public market by a private equity buyer.
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Cox Enterprises Inc. on Tuesday said it will purchase Cox Communications Inc.âs minority public stake for $8.3 billion, in a move to privatize the publicly traded cable company and insulate it from the short term demands of Wall Street.
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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 ...
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co. said it plans to file a proposal today detailing about $50 million in renovations at its South Boston facility to accommodate about 500 Gillette employees vacating the Prudential Tower corporate headquarters.
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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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Swedish hygiene and paper product maker SCA  said on Monday it had signed a deal to buy all of Procter & Gamble's  European tissue operations for 512 million euros ($672 million) in cash.
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Procter & Gamble Co. PG.N is near a  deal to buy Gillette Co. G.N for more than $54 billion in  stock, creating a dominant consumer products manufacturer with  unprecedented sway over retailers, sources familiar with the  situation said on Thursday.
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The Standard & Poorâs unit of the McGraw-Hill Companies agreed to buy the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index and two other products from Goldman Sachs Group, S.& P. said.
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Casino operator Penn National Gaming Inc.  has agreed to be acquired in a deal worth $8.9 billion, including $2.8 billion in assumed debt, the company said on Friday.
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PQ Corp., the specialty chemicals  business, said on Friday it was being sold to private equity  buyout firm Carlyle Group  for $1.5 billion.
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Exelon Corp., owner of the largest power companies in Illinois and Pennsylvania, agreed to buy New Jersey&#39;s Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.
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INDIANAPOLIS - New Jersey-based health care products giant Johnson &amp; Johnson is buying Guidant Corp., one of the world&#39;s top makers of cardiac devices, for about $25.4 billion in cash and stock.
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Procter & Gamble Co. said on Friday it  agreed to acquire Gillette Co. for about $57 billion in stock,  creating a dominant consumer products manufacturer that would  hold unprecedented sway over retailers.
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General Electric Co. GE.N on Monday  said it would buy the Edwards Systems Technology business from  SPX Corp. SPW.N for nearly $1.4 billion in cash to broaden  its security business.
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The James River Group, a property and casualty insurer, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by the hedge fund D. E. Shaw Group for $575 million in cash.