Imperial buys 4th biggest U.S. cigarette maker
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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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A General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) subsidiary announced it would acquire the transportation financing unit of Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) in a cash deal worth approximately $4.4 billion.
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. agreed to buy the brands including Altoids mints and Life Savers for $1.48 billion from Kraft Foods Inc., its biggest acquisition ever, to expand its share of the candy market.
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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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Ispat International (ISPA.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) will buy LNM Holdings and International Steel Group Inc. (ISG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , forming the world&#39;s largest
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The world's third largest cigarette group, Japan Tobacco Inc , 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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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. agreed to buy the Altoids mints and Life Savers brands for $1.48 billion from Kraft Foods Inc., its biggest acquisition ever, to expand its share of the candy market.
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Imperial Tobacco Group PLC , the UK maker of Lambert &amp; Butler, agreed to buy Commonwealth Brands for $1.9 billion to enter the US discount cigarette market.
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Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., maker of Juicy Fruit and Wrigley Spearmint gum, is spending $1.48 billion to buy Life Savers and Altoids mints from Kraft.
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Imperial Tobacco said Tuesday that it enjoyed record high earnings in 2006-2007, adding that it hoped to complete its takeover of Franco-Spanish rival Altadis by January.
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Japan Tobacco buys the UK tobacco firm Gallaher for $19bn in an all-cash deal.
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. WWY.N is buying  the Life Savers and Altoids candy and mint businesses from  Kraft Foods Inc. KFT.N for $1.48 billion, the companies said  on Monday.
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British cigarette maker Imperial Tobacco said it would buy Commonwealth Brands, the fourth biggest player in the United States, for 1.9 billion dollars (1.46 billion euros).
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Wrigley today announced plans to buy those brands from Kraft Foods for one-point-four-eight (B) billion dollars. The sale includes the Life Savers, Creme Savers and Altoids brands, as well as several local
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The Imperial Tobacco Group of Britain agreed to buy Commonwealth Brands, the maker of the discount cigarettes USA Gold and Sonoma, from Houchens Industries for $1.9 billion, giving Imperial entrance into the United States. Houchens, which is privately held, has annual sales of 14 billion cigarettes. Commonwealth Brands, which was acquired by Houchens in 2001, has an estimated 3.7 percent of the $376 billion cigarette market in the United States.
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BRUSSELS/SAO PAULO  - Shareholders gave their  blessing on Friday for Belgium's Interbrew INTB.BR to buy  Brazil's AmBev AMBV4.SA ABV.N in a deal valued at about 8  billion euros ($9.7 billion) that will create the world's  largest brewer.
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Overseas Shipholding Group Inc., the largest US-based oil tanker owner, agreed to buy Stelmar Shipping Ltd. for about $843 million.