Apax, Cinven Buy VNU Directories Unit for EU2.1 Bln
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Apax Partners Worldwide LLP and Cinven Ltd. agreed to buy VNU NV&#39;s directories unit for 2.1 billion euros ($2.6 billion), betting they can repeat Apax&#39;s past success in buying and selling yellow pages assets.
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British advertising agency company WPP Group PLC has clinched a deal to buy Grey Global Group of New York in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.
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ExcelStor, owned by the Chinese government, is being acquired in a stock deal.
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Kemira Oyj will acquire all shares in Finnish Chemicals Oy from Erikem Luxembourg S.A., the acquisition vehicle for private investors led by PPM Ventures together with Montagu Private Equity and MB Funds.
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Belgian telecommunications operator Belgacom said that it was buying Vodafone's 25-percent stake in its mobile phone unit Proximus for two billion euros (2.55 billion dollars).
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Viridian Group Plc , Northern Ireland's main electricity supplier, has agreed to a 1.62 billion pound ($3.1 billion) takeover by Bahrain-based financial investor Arcapita.
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Africa's largest media firm,  Naspers Ltd (NPNJn.J), said on Tuesday it would buy UK Internet  auction firm Tradus  for 946 million pounds ($1.90  billion) to extend its reach into central and eastern Europe.
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Shares in Dutch publisher VNU (VNUN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) rose more than 2 percent on Monday, supported by news it had completed the sale of a division and that a court case in the United States against a key unit had
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The company said it is selling the unit to Standard Chartered for nearly $1.1 billion so it can focus on its core credit card business.
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European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. NV, the parent of aircraft maker Airbus, Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Racal Instruments Group for up to $130 million.
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(InfoWorld) - Storage systems vendor Hitachi Data SystemsÂ (HDS) will acquire storage management company Archivas, it plans to announce Tuesday. Hitachi has scheduled a conference call for Tuesday morning to discuss its planned acquisition of Archivas, according to a media advisory released Monday. The advisory did not disclose how much Hitachi is paying for Archivas nor other details. Archivas sells an online storage management product, Archivas Cluster (ArC), which lets customers store, protect, and manage fixed-content data, such as document, e-mail, database, image, and audio files. The product is intended to address corporate governance, legal discovery and compliance regulations, which are driving new business investment in storage technology. The venture-funded company in Waltham, Massachusetts, was founded in 2003. HDS, one of several original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners of Archivas, uses Archivas software in its Content Archive Platform. HDS, in Santa Clara, California, is a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. of Tokyo. Â
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Japanese communications firm Softbank is to buy the Japanese unit of Cable &amp; Wireless for $132 million (72 million pounds), making it the No
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Standard Chartered has agreed to buy US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) worth of loans from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) to beef up its project finance operation.
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Enel, an Italian utility, said it had bought a 10 percent stake in Endesa, the Spanish utility, for 4.1 billion euros ($5.4 billion), possibly breaking up an attempt by a German company, E.On, to buy Endesa. Enel, based in Rome, said it had acquired 9.99 percent of Endesa at 39 euros a share, above E.Onâs bid of 38.75 euros and Endesaâs closing price of 38.12 euros. E.On raised its offer for Endesa this month to 41 billion euros ($54.2 billion) and emerged as the leading bidder, ahead of Gas Natural of Spain. It has cleared a number of legal hurdles in a bidding war that has lasted more than a year. Analysts said another bidder, Acciona, also of Spain, might revive its interest in Endesa as a result of Enelâs action.
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NEW YORK/PARIS  - A rise in NYSE Group's NYX.N   shares in the past few days means its bid for exchange operator   Euronext ENXT.PA has closed a gap with a rival proposal from   Deutsche Boerse DB1Gn.DE for the first time in weeks.
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Business & money: Â£2.2bn stake in nuclear power generator to be used to help clean up the company's existing sites.
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Vivendi Universal (EAUG.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it was selling 15 percent of its former utility unit Veolia Environnement (VIE.