Travis Perkins to buy Wickes for Â£950m
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British building materials merchant Travis Perkins Plc said on Thursday it agreed to pay Â£950 million ($1.84 billion) for home-improvement chain Wickes, sending its shares down nearly 3 percent.
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EMC is buying privately held System Management ARTS, known as Smarts, in a Â£135m deal that will boost EMC&#39;s software portfolio and management capabilities.
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TowerBrook Capital Partners has agreed to buy Jimmy Choo Ltd., for $364 million.
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The Brazil international is said to be the subject of a Â£2 million offer from the Gunners ahead of the January market. Marcos almost joined the Gunners two seasons ago and has been out for six months following surgery on a hand injury, but is now fit.
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David Whelan, the founder of JJB Sports, sells his 29% holding in the sporting goods firm for Â£190m.
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Brewers Carlsberg and Heineken will buy beermaker Scottish & Newcastle for $15.3 billion, the companies said Friday.
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A music publishing group with the rights to songs by Robbie Williams and Coldplay agreed to be taken over in a pounds 1bn deal yesterday.
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Former Rangers captain Craig Moore signs for Borussia Moehchengladbach.
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SCOTTISH &amp; Newcastle is to buy 37.5% of India&#39;s United Breweries, best-known for the favoured curry house tipple Kingfisher, India&#39;s number one beer brand.
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Denmark&#39;s biggest financial group, Danske Bank, has agreed to purchase Northern Bank in Northern Ireland and National Irish Bank in the Republic of Ireland from National Australia Bank for Â£967 million.
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Denmark's largest bank is to buy a Belfast-based and Dublin-based bank from National Australian Bank for Â£967m.
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Sport: Club's co-owner George Gillet is considering buying out partner Tom Hicks after disagreement
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Lachlan Murdoch and the gambling magnate James D. Packer have made an offer of 3.3 billion Australian dollars ($2.9 billion) to buy Consolidated Media Holdings.
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RUPERT Murdoch is literally buying back the farm - and the art and other myriad investments worth more than $50 million. As part of the proposed move of The News Corporation Ltd to the US, Mr Murdoch and his
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DALLAS ConAgra Foods will get 194 (M) million dollars for selling its minority interest in Swift Foods to Dallas-based Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst.
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Britain-based brewer SABMiller is the front-runner to gain control of Colombian peer Grupo Empresarial Bavaria, in a deal worth up to nine billion dollars (4.8 billion pounds).
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David Beckham's bank account is bending &#151; from all the weight. Beckham's five-year contract with Gillette to plug its razors and blades will earn him &#36;61 million.