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TOKYO, Tuesday, Feb. 20  â The Swedish truck maker Volvo said on Tuesday it would take over the Nissan Diesel Motor Company for $1.1 billion.
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Bank of America acquired Boston-based Fleet Financial Corporation last Spring -- promising at the time there would be no job cuts from the merger.
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Swedish truck maker Volvo  said on Tuesday it will offer 540 yen ($4.51) in cash per share for all the Nissan Diesel Motor Co. Ltd.  shares it does not own, planning to make the Japanese truck maker a wholly owned unit.
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An oil company controlled by the Russian government said that it had bought the company that had won Sunday's auction for the largest subsidiary of Yukos.
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Bus firm FirstGroup has announced the agreed purchase of Laidlaw International, owner of iconic US inter-city bus operator Greyhound, for 3.6 billion dollars.
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Oklahoma city-based Chesapeake has agreed to purchase Tulsa-based BRG Petroleum Corporation for 325 (m) million dollars in cash. Chesapeake, already the top producer of Oklahoma oil and gas, would add to its
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Volvo , the world's number two truck maker, said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy the road construction machinery business of U.S. diversified manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand  in a $1.3 billion cash deal.
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Stelmar Shipping Ltd. (SJH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , an oil tanker operator, has agreed to be acquired by affiliates of private equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC for $677 million in cash, Stelmar said on Monday.
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SEOUL In one of the highest-profile international acquisitions by a Chinese company, Shanghai Automotive Industry signed a $500 million deal on Thursday to acquire control of the South Korean company Ssangyong Motor.
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Analysts have estimated the medium-duty truck unit, which includes the GMC TopKick and Chevrolet Kodiak, to be worth about $500 million.
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JM Smucker Co., the largest US maker of jellies and jams, sold its operations in Brazil to closely held Cargill Inc. The sale of Smucker do Brasil Ltda.
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PHILADELPHIA _ International Steel Group Inc., which includes the remains of the bankrupt Bethlehem Steel Corp., is being acquired by a Dutch steel company for $4.
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Sweden's Volvo AB VOLVb.ST will buy   Nissan Motor Co.'s 7201.T remaining 6 percent stake in   Japanese truck maker Nissan Diesel Motor Co. 7210.T, bringing   its total ownership to 19 percent, Nissan Motor said on Monday.
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Britain's FirstGroup Plc  said on Friday it was buying U.S. firm Laidlaw International Inc. , which operates the iconic intercity Greyhound buses, in a $3.6 billion deal.
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The automakers team up to boost truck sales in the red-hot region.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.   has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Kohlberg  Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group   for about $32 billion in the largest leverage buyout in  history, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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TOKYO Isuzu Motors, Japan&#39;s largest truck maker, said Thursday that two of the nation&#39;s three largest trading companies would buy its shares, as the company&#39;s earnings recover from a slump in 2002 that required a bailout from five banks.