Novartis in $500 mln infrastructure deal with BT
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Swiss pharmaceuticals group Novartis  has concluded a $500 million, 7-year global infrastructure contract with British telecoms group BT , a Novartis spokesman said on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES -- Britain&#39;s largest fixed-line telephone company, BT Group PLC, agreed to acquire El Segundo, Calif.,-based Infonet Services Corp.
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Nestle SA completed its $2.5 billion takeover of Novartis Medical Nutrition, the food and drinks giant said Monday.
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Honeywell International Inc., the world&#39;s largest supplier of building controls and thermostats, agreed to buy Novar Plc of the UK for 798 million pounds ($1.53 billion) to expand in security, fire and ventilation systems.
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The Boston Scientific Corporation, the maker of medical devices, said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell its fluid management and venous access businesses for $425 million to the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners.
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Britain's BAE Systems said it had agreed to buy DigitalNet Holdings Inc, a provider of computer networks for the US government, for 600 million dollars (489 million euros) in cash.
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The British National Health Service (NHS) has signed a massive software licensing deal with Microsoft. The deal will ultimately save the NHS $625 million in licensing fees, as well as requiring that Microsoft
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VEVEY, Switzerland -- Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, will buy the medical nutrition unit of pharmaceutical company Novartis for $2.5 billion, the companies said Thursday.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck MRCG.DE   unveiled a $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm   Serono SEO.VX, and Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of   Altana ALTG.DE.
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Manufacturer Honeywell International agreed Monday to a $1.5 billion bid for Britain&#39;s Novar PLC, beefing up its security business and lifting 2005 earnings towards consensus forecasts.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced a $25.4bn (Â£13.1bn) deal yesterday to buy Guidant Corporation, giving the healthcare company a stake in the fast-growing market for devices that regulate heartbeats.
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Honeywell International stepped into the battle for control of industrial group Novar yesterday with a $1.5bn (Â£790m) agreed cash offer that some believe represents a knock-out blow.
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The management and employees of American healthcare company Medex will receive $105m (Â£54m) as a result of its acquisition by Smiths Group, the British engineering concern.
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In a move to strengthen its position as a global provider of IT and networking services, BT Group PLC has agreed to buy U.S.-based Infonet Services Corp., the companies announced Monday.
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Nortel has won a $5m contract from BT to help the telco use Internet Protocol (IP) technology to upgrade its call centres around the UK.
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BERLIN: BT Group Plc, Britain&#39;s largest phone company, plans to buy Infonet Services Corp. for US$965mil to add a data network spanning more than 180 countries.
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A consortium led by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group agreed Thursday to pay 1.27 billion British pounds (US$2.5 billion; euro1.8 billion) for NTL Inc.