Madrone, Goldman take $1 bln stake in Global Hyatt
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Private equity firms Madrone Capital  Partners and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners agreed to invest $1  billion in closely held Global Hyatt Corp, the hotel company&#39;s  chairman, Tom Pritzker, said on Wednesday.
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Real estate investment trust   Hospitality Properties Trust HPT.N on Monday said it agreed   to buy TravelCenters of America Inc., which operates food and   gas service stations along highways, for about $1.9 billion.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless  tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of  infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia&#39;s  Macquarie Group in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.
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Hyatt broadened its high-end hotel brand Thursday by purchasing the 143-hotel AmeriSuites chain for $600 million. The acquisition from private equity investor Blackstone Group increases Hyatt&#39;s existing 90,000
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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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Britain's Man Group Plc , the world's biggest listed hedge fund firm, said on Thursday it had set the indicative price range for the initial public offering of its U.S. brokerage business at $36 to $39 a share.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - InterContinental Hotels Group  Plc IHG.L said on Friday it was selling 13 hotels to  Hospitality Properties Trust HPT.N for $450 million, as part  of its strategy to sell hotels it owns and focus on franchising  and managing instead.
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Hyatt Corp. on Thursday said it agreed  to buy AmeriSuites, an upscale limited-service hotel chain that  it said would complement its full-service portfolio.
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Hyatt Corp. will pay more than $600 million to the Blackstone group for the 143-hotel AmeriSuites chain, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc. (NYSE:AHT) said Monday it has agreed to buy a 21-property, 4,094-room hotel portfolio for $250 million, including assumed debt.
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British insurer Prudential announced a 92-percent take-up of a new share issue worth one billion pounds (1.43 billion euros, 1.85 billion dollars).
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The French hotel group Accor said Monday it had completed the sale of its US hotel chain Red Roof Inn to an investment consortium for 1.313 billion dollars (954 million euros).
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Hyatt Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to buy the 143-hotel AmeriSuites chain in an estimated $600 million-plus deal that analysts said makes the luxury hotel company more of a well-rounded rival to much bigger Marriott International Inc.
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Warren Buffett's holding company  Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) bought 1 million shares of  insurer UnitedHealth Group  in the fourth quarter of  2006, according to a regulatory filing.
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No .1 hotel operator earns 55 cents a share, in line with estimates, as room rates rise 4%. NEW YORK  - Marriott International Inc.
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Car rental company Hertz Global  Holdings Inc. said on Friday it is planning an initial public  offering of as much as $1 billion in common stock.
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Private equity firms Madrone Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners agreed to invest $1 billion in closely-held Global Hyatt Corp, the hotel company's Chairman, Tom Pritzker, said on Wednesday.