Macerich to Buy Wilmorite for &#36;1.45 Bln
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Macerich Co.  on Thursday said it would buy Wilmorite Properties Inc. and Wilmorite Holdings L.P. for &#36;1.45 billion in a deal that expands its portfolio of shopping malls.
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Global miner Rio Tinto was near a deal  to buy Canadian aluminum giant Alcan Inc. for about $100 per  share, or $37 billion, The Wall Street Journal Online reported  on Thursday.
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Vulcan Materials Co.  on Monday said it has agreed to acquire Florida Rock Industries Inc.  in a cash and stock deal that values the two construction materials makers at around $4.6 billion.
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The company plans to spend &#36;27 billion to buy the 44% of Telecom Italia Mobile it does not already own.
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Auto parts supplier Lear Corp.  said on Monday that a company affiliated with activist investor Carl Icahn has offered to buy the company for $36 per share in cash.
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Arcelor SA, the steelmaker fighting a hostile bid from rival Mittal Steel Co., said Friday it reached a deal that would give it a controlling stake in Russia&#039;s largest steelmaker Severstal and &#36;1.59 billion in cash in exchange for 32 percent of Arcelor.
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General Growth Properties is going mall shopping, as it announced plans Friday to buy shopping mall owner The Rouse Co.
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United States Steel will buy the Canadian steel producer Stelco for $1.1 billion, a purchase making it the worldâs fifth-largest steel maker.
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Macerich Co. said Thursday that it&#39;s agreed to acquire privately held Wilmorite Properties Inc. and Wilmorite Holdings LP for more than $2.33 billion.
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Mexican cement giant Cemex SA is buying British-based RMC Group PLC, the world's biggest supplier of ready mixed concrete, in a deal worth some &#36;4.15 billion, the broker for Cemex said Monday.
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Switzerland's Holcim Ltd., the world's second largest cement maker, is in talks about the possibility of paying about &#36;3.4 billion for the construction and building group Aggregate Industries PLC., the companies said Wednesday. Aggregate's shares soared.
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NEW YORK, December 23  - Canada-based building product manufacturer, Masonite International (MHM.NYS), is to be acquired by New York based private equity group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co (KKR), for $2.5 billion (C$3.1 billion) in an
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The Macerich Company, which owns stakes in 63 United States shopping malls, said yesterday that it would acquire Wilmorite Properties and Wilmorite Holdings for $1.45 billion, in a deal to expand its portfolio of properties in the Northeast.
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An investment firm is buying Marble Slab Creamery and MaggieMooâs International in a bid to overtake Cold Stone Creamery, according to people involved with the deal.
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General Growth Properties Inc., a Chicago-based developer of regional shopping malls, said Friday it will buy the Rouse Co. for about &#36;7.2 billion. The deal will provide it with more leverage in negotiations with top retailers and give it some of the nation's premiere mall sites like Boston's Faneuil Hall and the Fashion Show Mall on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Macerich Co. MAC.N on Thursday said  it will pay $1.45 billion to expand its East Coast portfolio  with the acquisition of the owner of such well-known shopping  malls as Tysons Corner Center in the Washington area.
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MONTREAL/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  offered $38.1 billion to buy Canada's Alcan Inc in an agreed deal to create the world's No. 1 aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc