Retail giant buys family business
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Sainsbury's is to buy family owned supermarket firm Curley's in a multi-million pound deal.
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Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers Ltd.  is close to buying retailer Coles Group Ltd.  after sweetening its bid to as much as A$20.7 billion ($17.7 billion), the largest takeover in Australian corporate history.
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TOLEDO -- Attention Kmart shoppers, the discount retailer is buying Sears. Wednesday, Kmart Holding announced its $11 billion purchase of Sears Roebuck.
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Royal Ahold NV, the food retailer that owns the US Giant chain, agreed to sell its Spanish business to Permira funds for 685 million euros ($851 million).
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The discount retailer Kmart announced yesterday an $11bn (Â£5.9bn) acquisition of Sears Roebuck, bringing two of the best-known names in American retailing under one roof.
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The family of the world's fifth-richest man, Lakshmi Mittal, buys a 20% stake in QPR.
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Westfield Group has upped the ante in its expansion plans into the United Kingdom retail market with a $1.48 billion cash bid to buy out Duelguide plc, the company which owns retail property group Chelsfield plc.
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the owner of A&P, Super Fresh and Food Emporium supermarkets, agreed to buy Pathmark Stores for $1.3 billion to create the largest grocery chain in the Northeast.
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Children's Place Retail Stores Inc.  PLCE.O on Wednesday said it will buy Walt Disney Co.'s  DIS.N chain of North American retail stores and pledged to  invest $100 million in them.
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Manor Care Inc. , the largest  U.S. operator of homes for the elderly, said on Monday it  agreed to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion,  becoming the latest health care provider taken off the public  market by a private equity buyer.
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Online retail giant announces annual family membership plan; no minimum purchase needed.
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SECAUCUS, NJ-Retailer the Childrenâs Place is buying the 313-unit Disney Store North America chain in a deal the companies have been publicly considering since June.
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Manor Care Inc. , the largest U.S. owner of nursing homes, on Monday said it agreed to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion, the latest health-care provider taken off the public market by a private equity buyer.
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Kmart is acquiring Sears, Roebuck &amp; Company for $11 billion with the combined estimated earnings of the two making it the third-largest retailer in the United States.
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The royal family of the Gulf kingdom of Qatar raises its stake in supermarket group Sainsbury's to 25%.
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Business & money: Â· Grocer buys Dobbies chain with surprise Â£156m dealÂ· Stores will retain name to avoid 'Tescofication' fears
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US buy-out giant, last night agreed to buy Masonite International, a Canadian door products manufacturer, for about C$3.1bn (US$2.5bn) in cash.