Japan Tobacco to buy Gallaher for 19 billion dollars
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Japan Tobacco Inc has said it has reached an agreement to buy British rival Gallaher Group for 2.25 trillion yen (19.1 billion dollars) including debt, in Japan's biggest ever corporate acquisition.
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TOKYO/LONDON  - Japan Tobacco Inc. said on Friday it had agreed to buy British cigarette maker Gallaher Group Plc for 7.5 billion pounds ($14.7 billion) in cash, the biggest-ever foreign acquisition by a Japanese company.
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US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has offered to buy stakes in Japan's biggest consumer finance firm Takefuji Corp. for more than 300 billion yen (2.8 billion dollars), a report said.
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco  agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis  on Wednesday in a 16.2 billion euros ($22.4 billion) deal that includes debt.
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The world's third largest cigarette  group, Japan Tobacco Inc (2914.T), on Thursday made a 7.5  billion pound ($14.7 billion) cash offer for rival Gallaher  Group Plc , sources close to the situation said.
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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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Britain's Imperial Tobacco agreed to buy Commonwealth Brands, the fourth-biggest cigarette maker in the United States, but its shares fell on Thursday as speculation faded it might be a bid target itself.
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco  has agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis  for 16.2 billion euros ($22.4 billion) cash, including debt, to strengthen its position as the world's No.4 cigarette maker.
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Shares in Gallaher, which makes Silk Cut cigarettes, rise by 20% after an approach by a potential buyer.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in talks with  the founding family Takefuji Corp., the biggest player in  Japan's $100 billion consumer finance industry, that may result  in the U.S. firm buying about a third of the company for more  than $2.7 billion, a financial source said.
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Britain&#39;s Imperial Tobacco   agreed to buy Franco-Spanish rival Altadis  for 12.6  billion euros ($17.4 billion) on Wednesday in a deal that will  see it jump to No 2 from 4 in Europe&#39;s cigarette industry.
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U.S. investor Carl Icahn sold shares worth $460 million in South Korea's top tobacco company KT&G Corp.  at the bottom of the expected price range on Tuesday, sources familiar with the deal said.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ), the drug and health care products company, is reportedly in advanced negotiations to buy Guidant (GDT), a leading maker of devices to treat heart and circulatory illnesses, for more than $24 billion.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. confirmed on Friday it  was in talks to buy smaller rival Gallaher Group Plc, in a 7.5  billion pound ($14.7 billion) deal that would extend its  overseas expansion.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. has agreed to acquire Britain's Gallaher Group PLC for $18.79 billion (2.2 trillion yen) in the largest-ever corporate acquisition by a Japanese company, a business daily reported Friday.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson said late Wednesday that it will buy Guidant Corp. for $23.9 billion in a cash-and-stock deal that had been rumored for weeks.
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Gallaher Group Plc, the UK maker of Benson &amp; Hedges and Silk Cut cigarettes, said first-half profit rose 31 percent as the company sold more tobacco in Eastern Europe.