S&N agrees to Â£7.8bn takeover
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UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle agrees to be bought by Heineken and Carlsberg for Â£7.8bn.
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Santander Central Hispano has won permission from the European Commission to press ahead with its agreed 8.7 billion pound takeover of Abbey National.
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Two of the UK's largest life insurers, Friends Provident and Resolution, agree to merge in a deal worth Â£8bn.
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AMSTERDAM: Lakshmi Mittal, one of the UK&#39;s wealthiest men, will merge his steel assets and buy International Steel Group in a deal worth $17.
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Carlsberg (CARLb.CO) and Heineken   on Friday agreed a joint cash bid of 800 pence a  share for Scottish and Newcastle (S&N)  that will split  up the British brewer of Foster's and Kronenbourg.
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Australia's Qantas Airways agreed on Thursday to a sweetened $8.7 billion buyout offer from a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd. and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group in the world's biggest airline takeover.
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Swedish hygiene and paper product maker SCA  said on Monday it had signed a deal to buy all of Procter & Gamble's  European tissue operations for 512 million euros ($672 million) in cash.
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Boeing yesterday secured a $7.3bn (Â£4bn) order to supply 31 aircraft to Singapore Airlines, boosting its efforts to regain ground on Airbus.
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Lakshmi Mittal, who is based in the UK, yesterday set his seal on the consolidation of the global steel industry with a $17.8bn (Â£10bn) double merger to create the world&#39;s largest producer.
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SCOTTISH &amp; Southern Energy yesterday called time on its 18-month acquisition spree after confirming a Â£3.1 billion swoop for two gas distribution networks.
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In the latest of a flurry of deals among internet service providers, UK firm Claranet buys the UK operations of US business Via.Net Works for Â£7.3m.
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Building supplies-to-cheque printing group Novar today agreed to be taken over by US giant Honeywell for Â£798 million. The deal sent shares in Novar up more than 14% and is
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Shareholders of Banco Santander Central (SCH) overwhelmingly approved the 8.5-billion-pound (12.3-billion-euro, 15.3-billion-dollar) takeover of British mortgage bank Abbey National.
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Corus shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed a takeover of the Anglo-Dutch steel group by Tata Steel of India, as 97 percent of voters approved a deal worth 7 billion pounds.
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Lakshmi Mittal, one of the UK's  wealthiest men, will merge his steel assets and buy  International Steel Group Inc. in a deal worth $17.8 billion to  form the world's largest steel company.
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An $8.7 billion takeover bid for Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.  by a consortium led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  is fair and reasonable, an independent expert said on Monday.
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IBM is celebrating a seven-year contract to provide voice and data solutions to Lloyds TSB, as part of the largest European IT deal of its kind, worth an estimated Â£500m.