Stanley buying Indianapolis lock firm
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- The Stanley Works has agreed to buy Indianapolis-based Security Group Inc., a maker of locks and access systems.
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The No. 1 movie-rental chain offers $700 million to buy the Wilsonville-based company - the industry&#39;s No. 2 outlet. DALLAS â-lockbuster Inc.
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A privately-owned Dutch steel-maker led by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is consolidating its steel holdings and is buying U.S.-based International Steel Group Inc.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canadian door maker Masonite International Corp. is being acquired by a US buyout company in a friendly deal worth $3.1 billion.
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Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy a real estate investor, the Investa Property Group of Australia, for 4.7 billion Australian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash. Including debt, the offer values Australiaâs biggest publicly traded owner of office buildings at 6.6 billion Australian dollars. The bid is subject to an independent expertâs report confirming that the offer is in the best interests of shareholders.
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TORONTO (CP) - Bank of Montreal and US subsidiary Harris Bank are paying $197.4 million for Indiana&#39;s 19-branch Mercantile Bank as they bolster their successful operations in the US Midwest.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Shares of Tramford International Ltd. (TRFDF) rose nearly 50% Wednesday, on news that a customer agreed to acquire the personal-computer business of International Business Machines Corp.
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Ispat International (ISPA.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) will buy LNM Holdings and International Steel Group Inc. (ISG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , forming the world&#39;s largest
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Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical and health care giant, is near a deal to buy Guidant, one of the nation's largest makers of devices to treat heart and circulatory illnesses.
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (Dow Jones/AP) _ The Stanley Works agreed to buy Security Group Inc., a maker of locks and access systems, and said it completed the acquisition of Cal-Dor Specialties Inc.
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Speedy Hire, a British tool-rental company, agreed to buy Finning Internationalâs Hewden Tools business for Â£115 million ($227 million) to add branches and expand its range of drills, scaffolding and generators. Speedy, based in Newton-le-Willows, northwest England, will pay cash for the operation, part of the Hewden Stuart subsidiary of Finning, which is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The purchase will increase Speedy Hireâs annual revenue by at least 20 percent, to more than Â£400 million, the chief executive, Steve J. Corcoran, said on a conference call.
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By Sabine Vollmer, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 9--Peyton Anderson has big plans for Affinergy, the three-year-old medical device company he runs in south Durham.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson, the US medical and consumer goods group, is in advanced discussions to buy Guidant, a maker of medical devices, in a deal that could be worth about $24bn (Â£12bn).
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The world's leading sports management and marketing firm is to be bought by a New York  investment firm for an undisclosed fee.
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Harris Bank agreed to buy Mercantile Bancorp Inc., a Hammond, Ind.-based community bank network with 19 branches in northwest Indiana, for $156.
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Eurocastle Investment, a London-listed group managed by US private equity group Fortress Investment, is to pay â¬300m (Â£210m) for a Deutsche Bank property portfolio, the latest deal in the vast property sell-off under way in Germany.
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A new key acquisition will bolster its RSA division.