Rayovac to Buy United Industries
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Battery maker Rayovac Corp.  on Tuesday said it would buy United Industries Corp., a maker of lawn and garden products, for about &#36;476 million in cash and stock in a bid to diversify its product mix.
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Johnson & Johnson will buy Guidant  Corp. for $23.9 billion in cash and stock, giving the  health-care products maker a foothold in the fast-growing  market for implantable devices that regulate heartbeats, J&J  said on Wednesday.
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U.K. semiconductor design company Arm Holdings PLC has agreed to acquire a Sunnyvale, California, provider of components for chip manufacturing in a deal valued at around $913 million in cash and stock.
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Vulcan Materials Co., a maker of  highway construction materials, said on Monday it agreed to buy  Florida Rock Industries Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth  around $4.6 billion.
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United Online Inc., a California-based provider of low-cost Internet subscription services, has agreed to buy Internet networking company Classmates Online Inc.
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Platinum Equity is buying Covad Communications for about $304 million.
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Dutch chemical distributor Univar NV   said on Monday it is buying U.S. chemicals  distributor Chemcentral Corp. for $600 million in cash,  including assumed debt, to expand its U.S. operations.
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Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.  said on Monday it would acquire Sierra Health Services Inc.  for $43.50 per share to help it expand in the fast-growing U.S. Southwest.
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Motorola Inc. MOT.N on Tuesday said   it had agreed to buy Symbol Technologies Inc. SBL.N, a maker   of bar code and inventory scanning technology, for about $3.9   billion in cash to expand its opportunities with corporate   customers.
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Construction services company URS  Corp.  said on Monday it would acquire Washington Group  International Inc.  for about $2.3 billion to expand  into the engineering and management of nuclear, infrastructure  and environmental projects.
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Kidde PLC, the British fire and safety company, said Thursday it had agreed to a 1.4 billion pound (&#36;2.8 billion) takeover by United Technologies Corp.
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United Technologies Corp., which offers security services through its Chubb unit, agreed to buy UK fire-protection company Kidde Plc for $2.8 billion in cash to expand its range of building-services products.
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Vulcan Materials Co.  on Monday  said it has agreed to acquire Florida Rock Industries Inc.   in a cash and stock deal that values the two  construction materials makers at around $4.6 billion.
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Germany's Schwarz Pharma SRZG.DE   said on Monday it had agreed to be bought by Belgium's UCB   UCBBt.BR for around $5.6 billion in shares and cash in the   third major drug sector transaction in Germany in five days.
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The Carlyle Group said on Monday that it would buy the Sequa Corporation, a maker of aircraft and auto parts, for $2 billion.
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- United Rentals Inc.  said it agreed to be acquired by affiliates of Cerberus Capital Management LP  in a deal worth about $6.6 billion, including $2.6 billion in debt.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- United Technologies (UTX) said its $2.8 billion cash offer for UK fire safety group Kidde (UK:KID) has been accepted by Kidde&#39;s board.