Barr tops Actavis with $2.5 bln Pliva offer
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Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc  moved  back into pole position in the race for Croatian drugmaker  Pliva  on Monday after unveiling a revised $2.5 billion  takeover offer that trumped a bid from Actavis .
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BRISBANE, Calif. -- A Brisbane company has been awarded an $877.5 million contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine to the federal government, company officials said today.
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A consortium led by investment bank Macquarie Bank won aA$2.5 billion ($2.68 billion) contract yesterday to build Australia&#39;s longest toll road, edging out a rival bid led by Transurban Group.
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American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc.  APPX.O soared 41 percent before the bell on Monday after the  biotechnology company said on Friday U.S. regulators approved  its breast cancer drug Abraxane.
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Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday it sold $8.3 million worth of its Taxus drug-coated cardiac stents per day this month, a record level the Natick medical-devices giant said demonstrates it has won back doctors' confidence after three recalls.
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American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc.  soared 41 percent before the bell on Monday after the biotechnology company said on Friday U.S. regulators approved its breast cancer drug Abraxane.
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Select Medical Corp. SEM.N, which  operates acute care hospitals, said on Monday it struck a deal  to be taken private in a $2.3 billion buyout led by a private  equity group, sending shares soaring 23 percent.
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Tata Steel topped an offer from Brazilâs Companhia SiderÃºrgica Nacional to win a heated auction for its European rival, the Corus Group.
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Croatian drugmaker Pliva said on Friday   a $2.5 billion cash offer from Iceland's Actavis represented   "fair value," but signaled it would still prefer a tie-up with   rival bidder Barr Pharmaceuticals.
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Station Casinos Inc.  has accepted a revised buyout offer valued at about $5.5 billion from a group that includes the company's founding family and real-estate firm Colony Capital LLC, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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InfoWorld - Barracuda Networks plans to focus on finding prior art to defend itself and the open-source ClamAV project against patent claims by rival antivirus vendor Trend Micro, which stressed Tuesday that it owns a tested and valid patent.
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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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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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Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc BRL.N moved   back into pole position in the race for Croatian drugmaker   Pliva PLV.ZA on Monday after unveiling a revised $2.5 billion   takeover offer that trumped a bid from Actavis ACT.IC.
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Unipetrol (Czech Republic), petrochemical holding, has sold the synthetic rubber producer Kaucuk (Kralupy and Vltavou, Czech Republic) to the chemical company Dwory (Poland) for EUR 195 mil, about CEK 5.5 bil.
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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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US consumer healthcare company Perrigo is to buy Israeli drug-maker Agis for $818m (Â£441.5m) in cash and stock. The deal will create a firm with annual sales of $1.