Â£1.3bn Tag on Paints Company
237333
By Lucinda Kemeny, Financial Mail on Sunday, London  Dec. 17--Europe's second-biggest paint supplier, SigmaKalon, whose brands  include Johnstone's and Leyland, is expected to be put up for sale next year  in a Â£1.3 billion deal.
715889
The three-way battle for Warner Chilcott reached a new pitch this morning when the company recommended a Â£1.6 billion bid tabled by a US-led private equity team.
688497
Business & money: Â· Drinks group signs Â£460m deal with Ketel OneÂ· Dutch vodka expected to cut into top seller's market
282162
Business & money: Â· Buyout firms blamed for collapse of schemesÂ· Labour donor linked to Â£81m of deficits
472287
Andy Warhol's 1963 painting Mustard Race Riot, about civil rights protests, sells for $15.1m (Â£8.1m).
488285
WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Monday it was paying US$1.309 billion (euro1.068 billion) - half in cash and half in WPP equity - for the entire share capital of US-based Grey Global.
169775
UK mini-conglomerate Novar has unveiled an Â£1.2bn ($2.3bn) bid from Honeywell of the US, a month on from rejecting another offer from Melrose.
275571
Holcim, the world's number two cement maker has made a friendly, 1.8 billion-pound (3.4 billion-dollar, 2.6 billion-euro) takeover bid for British counterpart Aggregate Industries, the firms said.
749529
A consortium led by Australia&#39;s Macquarie group will pay Â£1.27 billion ($2.5 billion) for the broadcast infrastructure business of Britain&#39;s NTL Group.
567098
Company claims one million songs sold since prices were cut.
615524
Gondola Holdings, the owner of Pizza Express, has received a Â£1bn takeover offer from an unidentified source.
358337
Britain's WPP Group Plc has offered to  pay more than $1.25 billion for advertising firm Gray Global  Group, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing an  unidentified person familiar with the matter.
441620
France&#39;s largest media group, Vivendi Universal, yesterday revealed that first-half net losses had nearly trebled to â¬1.86bn (Â£1.
389594
Arts & entertainment: Â· Russian billionaire pays over Â£25m for treasures Â· Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment
621165
Lenovo will pay $1.25bn (Â£647m) in cash for the business, which is expected to transform it into the world&#39;s number three PC maker.
123933
Deutsche Boerse has made a Â£1.3 billion ($2.49 billion) approach for the London Stock Exchange, and the LSE&#39;s rejection of it on Monday left observers doubting a much better offer would emerge.
70188
Insurers says they are already looking at Â£1bn worth of claims arising from this week's floods.