P&G Offers $54 Bln in Stock for Gillette
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Procter & Gamble Co. PG.N is close  to an agreement to buy Gillette Co. G.N for more than $54  billion in stock, in a bid to create the world's largest  consumer products company, sources close to the situation said  on Thursday.
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The US cleaning products maker has agreed to buy back a 29 percent stake from Germany&#39;s Henkel KGaA (HNKG_p.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) .
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Hewlett-Packard Co.   agreed on Tuesday to buy Mercury Interactive Corp.   for about $4.5 billion in stock, or $52 per share, in a bid to  expand the computer maker's business software operations.
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The Gillette-P&G deal is part of a 'new wave' coming as firms seek growth in a global economy.
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Procter & Gamble strikes a deal to buy Gillette for $57bn, creating the world's biggest stable of consumer brands.
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Procter & Gamble Co.  said on Thursday it was seeking a buyer for its Japanese adult diaper business even as the market posts steady growth due to the country's greying population.
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PPR, the French luxury goods empire, said Wednesday it had amassed a 33.2 percent stake in German sportsgear maker Puma by the end of an initial acceptance period for its public offer.
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British advertising company WPP  on Sunday said it has won an auction for U.S. rival Gray Global , with what sources familiar with the matter said was a cash-and-stock deal worth about 750 million pounds (&#36;1.34 billion).
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Procter & Gamble Co.  is close to an agreement to buy Gillette Co.  for more than &#36;54 billion in stock, in a bid to create the world's largest consumer products company, sources close to the situation said on Thursday.
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co., the leading U.S. maker of household products whose brands include Crest, Pampers, Tide and Charmin, is buying the razor and battery maker Gillette Co. for &#36;57 billion in a deal that will create the world's biggest consumer-products enterprise, the companies announced Friday.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will buy Guidant Corp. (GDT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for $23.9 billion in cash and stock, giving the health-care products
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced last night that will buy medical-device maker Guidant for $23.9 billion in cash and stock. The deal, approved by both boards but subject to regulator approval, is one of the largest
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HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) today extended its previously announced tender offer for all of the common stock of Mercury Interactive Corporation until midnight, New York City time, on September 28, 2006.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., moving to regain full control of its majority owned Fox television properties, is offering to buy the remaining publicly held shares of Fox Entertainment Group Inc. for stock valued at about &#36;5.9 billion.
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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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Procter &amp; Gamble Co. chairman and chief executive A.G. Lafley addressed Gillette Co. employees for the first time, a week after P&amp;G said it would acquire Gillette for $57 billion. Speaking at the shaving giant's Boston headquarters, Lafley assured employees that no decisions had been made about which jobs would be eliminated after the merger -- though he acknowledged that ...
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AT&amp;T Corp. gets taken over by its former Baby Bell spinoff, SBC Communications Inc. Gillette Co. is devoured by consumer products giant Procter &amp; Gamble Co.