P&G to Buy Gillette for $57 Billion
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Procter & Gamble Co. PG.N on Friday  said it would buy Gillette Co. G.N for $57 billion in stock,  uniting two iconic U.S. producers of household goods ranging  from Pampers diapers to Duracell batteries.
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co. has cut 300 Gillette jobs on the one-year anniversary of the $54 billion takeover that ended a century of independence for the Boston shaving firm.
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Procter & Gamble Co  on Tuesday posted a 14 percent increase in quarterly profit, helped by sales of Gillette razors, Charmin toilet paper and Pampers diapers, the weaker dollar and cost-cutting measures.
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Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has announced it will buy British motor insurer Equity Insurance Group for 570 million pounds.
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Five weeks into the new year, the merger juggernaut is at full tilt. The biggest deals weigh in at tens of billions of dollars and unite companies that are household names: Gillette and Procter &amp; Gamble . AT&amp;T and SBC Communications . Travelers Life &amp; Annuity and MetLife .
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co., the leading U.S. maker of household products whose brands include Crest, Pampers, Tide and Charmin, is buying the razor and battery maker Gillette Co. for &#36;57 billion in a deal that will create the world's biggest consumer-products enterprise, the companies announced Friday.
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U.S. conglomerate General Electric  has agreed to buy British oilfield services firm Sondex  for 288.7 million pounds ($583.1 million) in cash, the two firms said on Monday.
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New Brunswick (dpa) -Johnson &amp; JOhnson, one of the world&#39;s largest pharmaceutical and medical devices producers, is buying Guidant Corporation for 25.4 billion dollars, Johnson &amp; JOhnson said Thursday.
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U.S. stock futures pointed to a  slightly higher market open on Friday ahead of an economic  report, helped by Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O earnings and news  that Procter & Gamble Co. PG.N will buy Gillette Co. G.N to  form a consumer products powerhouse.
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British advertising agency company WPP Group PLC has clinched a deal to buy Grey Global Group of New York in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.
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Procter & Gamble strikes a deal to buy Gillette for $57bn (Â£30.2bn), creating the world's biggest stable of consumer brands.
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Basell will buy a U.S. chemical company, the Huntsman Corporation, for $5.6 billion to strengthen its position as a global chemicals group.
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General Electric Co. will sell a majority stake in its global outsourcing business to two US-based equity firms in an all-cash deal totaling $500 million, the industrial, financial services and media conglomerate said Monday.
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The Gillette-P&G deal is part of a 'new wave' coming as firms seek growth in a global economy.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Monday it was buying U.S.-based Grey Global Group in a &#36;1.52 billion cash and stock deal.
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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to  buy Guidant Corp. for $25.4 billion in cash and stock, the  companies said on Wednesday, giving the healthcare products  maker a foothold in the fast-growing market for implantable  devices that regulate heartbeats.
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the owner of A&P, Super Fresh and Food Emporium supermarkets, agreed to buy Pathmark Stores for $1.3 billion to create the largest grocery chain in the Northeast.