iSoft's Â£82m City sweetener
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Public money paid to private firm iSoft Plc, the beleaguered NHS software provider, has been given two large chunks of cash totalling close to Â£82m over the last two years, the government has admitted.â¦
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SYDNEY : South African-based Metcash Trading Ltd announced it intended to make an 846 million dollars (660 million US) off-market takeover offer for the Australian operations of Foodland Associated Ltd.
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Chemicals giant ICI sells its Quest flavour and fragrance division to Swiss firm Givaudan for Â£1.2bn.
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Bird&#39;s Custard and Angel Delight have been sold for Â£70m to Premier Foods, the group which owns Ambrosia rice pudding and Rowntree&#39;s jelly.
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Norbrook Laboratories in Newry announcs an Â£83m investment which could create almost 300 jobs.
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Shares in troubled medical software firm iSoft rise 9% after it emerges an Australian firm is in talks to buy it.
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Australian soft drink bottler Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd. has launched a friendly Aust. $500 million ($382 million) bid for SPC Ardmona Ltd.
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British brewer Scottish & Newcastle said Friday it had accepted a 7.8 billion pound (10.5 billion euro, 15.5 billion dollar) takeover bid by Carlsberg of Denmark and Heineken of the Netherlands.
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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra lodges an Â£81.6m formal takeover bid for Manchester City.
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WOLVERHAMPTON &amp; Dudley, Britainâs biggest regional brewer, said it was buying another beer-making company in a Â£119 million swoop as it posted improved profits for the year.
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Embattled UK software firm iSoft agrees a deal with a key partner, lifting a major obstacle to a successful takeover.
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Nice fit, but too expensive, reckons City
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Scottish & Newcastle, Britainâs largest brewer, agreed to a Â£7.8 billion ($15.4 billion) takeover by the European rivals Carlsberg and Heineken.
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By Bill Condie, Evening Standard, London  Feb. 16--The sale process for deeply-troubled IT provider iSoft could be  salvaged by an Australian bidder.
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Booze is back. Constellation Brands turns in a quick double.
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By David Robinson, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 20--Isochem Inc. has been acquired by a New York City leveraged buyout firm Buckingham Capital Partners, which plans to run the Lockport chemical company under its original name, VanDeMark Chemical.
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Drinks giant Diageo today raised 2.26 billion US dollars (Â£1.27bn) after selling a further chunk of shares in Cheerios cereal maker General Mills.