Bridgestone to buy Bandag for $1.05 billion cash
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TOKYO/NEW YORK  - Bridgestone Corp., Japan's biggest tire maker, said it would pay $1.05 billion in cash for Bandag Inc., the largest U.S. supplier of retread tires, to offer a full range of services to truck fleets.
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A group led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to buy the Cooper Tire &amp; Rubber Co. business that makes automotive fluid-handling systems and other components for $1.
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Vulcan Materials Co. , a maker of highway construction materials, said on Monday it agreed to buy Florida Rock Industries Inc.  in a cash and stock deal worth around $4.6 billion.
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Luggage maker Samsonite Corp. , a company on the verge of bankruptcy only four years ago, agreed to be bought on Thursday by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners  for $1.1 billion in cash.
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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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Cooper Tire &amp; Rubber Co. agreed to sell its parts business that makes automotive weather stripping and hoses, to buyout firms Cypress Group LLC and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Monday said it agreed to buy the privately held BRG Petroleum Corp. for $325 million in cash. The company will fund the deal - which it expects to close on Feb. 1 - using cash on
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Bond trader Cantor Fitzgerald is combining its electronic brokerage eSpeed , which has been a takeover target, with its BGC Partners inter-dealer broker into a new publicly listed company in a $1.3 billion deal.
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The Cendant Corp. in New York said Wednesday it will acquire Chicago-based online travel company Orbitz Inc. for about $1.25 billion.
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Travel and real estate heavyweight Cendant said Wednesday it will buy travel Web site Orbitz for about $1.25 billion, making it the No.
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Goodyear Tire &amp; Rubber, the biggest North American tiremaker, has agreed to sell its 95 percent stake in an Indonesian rubber-plantation unit to Bridgestone to end production of natural rubber and focus on tires.
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Japanese tire maker Bridgestone Corp.  said on Tuesday that it would pay $1.05 billion in cash for Bandag Inc. , a U.S. maker of retreading materials and equipment, to expand its range of services to cost-conscious truck fleets.
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Newspaper publisher Pulitzer Inc.  PTZ.N is considering a sale of the company that could attract  bids of up to $1.5 billion, sources familiar with the matter  said on Friday.
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Wilbur Ross, whose buyout firm created International Steel less than two years ago, is selling the company to Lakshmi N. Mittal, the billionaire steel tycoon, for $4.5 billion.
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Ispat International, the steel producer controlled by the Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, today announced it had agreed to buy LNM Holdings and International Steel Group in
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Bridgestone Corp (5108.T) aims to boost  annual profit by 80 percent and sales by a fifth over the next  five years as it steps up its quest to be the world's biggest  tire maker.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Mall operator Simon Property Group Inc. and hedge fund Farallon Capital Management said Friday they will buy the struggling mall developer The Mills Corp. for $1.64 billion after outbidding rival Brookfield Asset Management Inc.