A&P in talks to buy Pathmark for about $653 million
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Inc.  said on Tuesday it was in talks to acquire rival supermarket chain Pathmark Stores Inc.  for about $653 million in cash and stock.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.   has offered to buy larger eye-care company Bausch &  Lomb Inc.  for $4.23 billion, topping a rival offer of  $3.67 billion from private equity firm Warburg Pincus ,  the two companies said on Thursday.
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Advertising giant WPP is to buy US firm Grey Global, in a deal which could be worth as much as Â£750m ($1.3bn). The UK-based group won the auction for Grey Global, the seventh-largest advertiser in the US, against
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Johnson &amp; Johnson is in advanced talks to buy cardiovascular device maker Guidant Corp. for more than $24 billion, a newspaper report said Tuesday.
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Source says the investment bank is in talks to buy GLG Partners, estimated to be worth $1.5B. LONDON  - Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
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Clothing retailer American Apparel  Inc. is close to a deal to be bought by Endeavor Acquisition  Corp.  for $244 million, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Monday.
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Regional grocer Pathmark Stores Inc. (PTMK) on Thursday reported a quarterly loss and warned that it was in danger of breaching some debt covenants by the end of the current quarter as it grapples with weaker sales and rising costs.
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Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard Co. has bought IT services company Synstar plc, of Bracknell, England for about $293.3 million. Synstar has some 1,500 customers across Europe, selling IT support for various computer platforms.
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Cable &amp; Wireless plc (NYSE: CWP - message board) is significantly ramping up its investment in local loop unbundling (LLU) in the UK, and it plans to spend up to Â£85 million ($152.
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Australia's Qantas Airways  has received a buyout offer from investment firms Macquarie Bank  and Texas Pacific Group that could be worth more than A$10 billion ($7.77 billion), sending its shares up 15 percent.
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ARM Holdings, the British semi-conductor design company, said it has agreed to buy US technology group Artisan Components Inc. for 913 million dollars (743 million euros) in a cash and stock deal.
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Private-equity giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and the Texas Pacific Group are near a deal to acquire the TXU Corporation.
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.  said on Monday that it plans to buy rival grocer Pathmark Stores Inc.  for $678.6 million, creating a larger company to compete in the U.S. Northeast.
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A group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and the Texas Pacific Group is near a deal to acquire the TXU Corporation.
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Johnson & Johnson is in advanced negotiations to acquire Guidant, one of the nation's largest makers of devices to treat heart illnesses, for more than $24 billion.
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor Inc   said on Friday that it had agreed to be bought for  $17.6 billion, or $40 a share, by a consortium of private  equity firms led by Blackstone Group.
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NEW YORK -- Johnson &amp; Johnson, the New Jersey-based drug and health care products company, is reportedly in advanced negotiations to buy Guidant Corp.