Japan Tobacco confirms talks to buy Gallaher
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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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The Tokyo Stock Exchange is in talks about forming a possible alliance with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, an exchange official said Thursday, one day after the Asia's biggest bourse announced a cooperative agreement with the New York Stock Exchange.
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Smokers in Japan will no longer be able to buy cigarettes from vending machines from next year without an ID card that says they are adults under a new system that aims to make it harder for minors to buy tobacco.
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Japanese brewer Sapporo Holdings  is considering a management buyout to counter a possible takeover attempt by U.S. hedge fund Steel Partners, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday.
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Exelon Corp. (EXE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is in talks to buy New Jersey utility Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.&#39;s (PEG.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may be in talks  with the founding family of top Japanese consumer finance firm  Takefuji Corp. for a stake of over $2.74 billion, a source told  Reuters on Friday, heating up competition among foreign  investors to enter a $97 billion industry.
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Japan Tobacco Inc has offered to buy British rival Gallaher Group in a deal that could be the largest-ever acquisition by a Japanese firm worth at least 15 billion dollars plus debt.
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British American Tobacco has indicated that it would seek to put the company which runs the BAR Formula One team into administration if it proves unable to buy the minority shareholding in the operation required to press ahead with its new deal with Honda
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Brewer Scottish & Newcastle said Thursday it was in talks with a view to being taken over by Danish group Carlsberg and Dutch peer Heineken for 7.8 billion pounds.
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Osaka Gas Co. , Japan's second largest natural gas distributor, said on Friday it has agreed to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia's far east.
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The U.S. tobacco king sets a date for its planned spinoff and announces share buybacks boosting its shares.
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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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Gallaher Group, the maker of the Benson & Hedges brand in Europe, said it had received an offer of Â£7.5 billion ($14.7 billion).
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Steel Partners submits a proposal to buy-up more of Japanese brewer Sapporo.
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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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Imperial Tobacco said Tuesday it had handed shareholders in Franco-Spanish cigarette maker Altadis an extra week to accept its takeover bid worth 12.8 billion euros (18.8 billion dollars).
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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.