Sweden's H and M in talks to buy Portugal's largest retail chain
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Swedish fashion retailer Hennes and Mauritz is in talks to buy all 35 shops belonging to Macmoda, Portugal's largest clothing retail chain.
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German industrial conglomerate MAN AG   bid 9.6 billion euros ($12.2 billion) in cash and stock for   Sweden's Scania AB in a deal that would create Europe's largest   truckmaker.
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The California department store operator might look interesting to acquirers.
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Scania SCVb.ST Chief Executive Leif   Ostling met institutional shareholders this week to discuss   MAN's MANG.DE 9.6 billion euro ($12.2 billion) bid, the   Swedish truckmaker said on Wednesday.
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AMSTERDAM -- The Dutch supermarket retailer Ahold, seeking to streamline global operations and reduce debt, said yesterday that it will sell its holdings in Spain to Permira Funds, for roughly $849 million.
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The public owners of the two biggest German public sector banks have begun talks that could lead to a new banking giant in Europe, press reports said Monday.
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The owner of the 182-year-old Lord & Taylor department store chain is close to buying the jewelry and housewares retailer in a $100 million deal.
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WestLB, the German public sector banking giant, is considering making an offer to buy its regional public sector bank, Landesbank Berlin.
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Internet search leader Google is eyeing acquisitions in Portugal that could help the US firm expand into Africa.
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CHICAGO -- Kraft Foods Inc. said Tuesday it has offered $7.2 billion in cash to acquire the cookie and cereal division of French food company Groupe Danone SA in a deal that would give America's biggest food and beverage company an even larger foothold around the globe.
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Private equity groups CVC Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone are mulling a takeover of J Sainsbury, the third-biggest biggest supermarket chain in Britain.
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Danone is in talks to sell its biscuit and cereal unit to the world's biggest biscuit maker, Kraft Foods.
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If approved, the deal would be the largest acquisition in the European tobacco industry.
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Shares in discount retailer Big Food Group leap more than 13% as the owner of the Iceland frozen food chain reveals it is in bid talks.
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Deutsche Telekom, the largest European phone company, has offered to buy out investors in T-Online International, its Internet division, for about E3 billion, aiming to revive growth at its fixed-line business.
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H&M, the 57-year-old cheap-and-trendy clothing giant, has been moving into new areas of Europe, while it is still striving to meet its financial goals in the U.S.
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EUROPE&#39;S biggest phone company, Deutsche Telekom, has offered to buy out investors in its T-Online International internet division for about E3 billion ($5 billion) to revive growth at its fixed-line business.