Cytec pays $1.87b for UCB unit
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Cytec Industries said Friday it will pay $1.87 billion to Belgian chemical company UCB for its Surface Specialties unit, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE:CYT) announced today that the company's  Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.10  per share on the common stock of the company, payable on February 26,  2007 to shareholders of record as of February 12, 2007.
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Computer Sciences Corp. won a $1.35 billion contract to manage phone and computer networks for Ascension Health, the biggest US nonprofit health care system.
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Women's healthcare specialist Warner Chilcott says it has received a bid approach which could value it at more than Â£1.5bn.
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United Technologies (UTC), the parent company of security product manufacturer and integrator Chubb, is making an offer to purchase fire and safety product manufacturer Kidde plc.
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About 1.1 million Norwich Union with-profit policyholders will share a bonus of Â£2.1bn, as shareholders get Â£230m.
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Jim Tobin , chief executive of Boston Scientific Corp. , earned $1.6 million in salary, bonus, and benefits last year, the company said in a regulatory filing, down from the $1.9 million he made in 2005.
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The company said it is selling the unit to Standard Chartered for nearly $1.1 billion so it can focus on its core credit card business.
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- The University of Connecticut has received $3.5 million from insurance giant Aetna and its chief executive to fund university health programs, the school announced Tuesday.
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_ Kidde PLC, the British fire and safety company, said Thursday it had agreed to a 1.4 billion pound ($2.8 billion) takeover by United Technologies Corp.
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Cytec Industries Inc., a US maker of materials for the aerospace and car industries, agreed to buy the chemicals operations of UCB SA, Belgium&#39;s largest drugmaker, for 1.5 billion euros ($1.
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The company, which makes products ranging from automotive coatings to genetically modified seeds, said it expected 2007 earnings to be at the upper end of its previously announced range of $3.15 to $3.20 a share.
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URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that it has been awarded one  of seven indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts with the U.S.  Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District.
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Prudential waves goodbye to double yolker Prudential PLC, the British financial services company, is to sell its loss making internet banking unit Egg to Citigroup for Â£575m ($1.127bn) cash.â¦
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London hospitals will get more than $1.5 million to fix their buildings as part of a $60-million announcement yesterday by the province.
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Directors at the UK's top 100 companies have built up a pension pot worth a total of Â£1m, the TUC claims.
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A new hi-tech communications centre for Lothian and Borders Police is suffering from a Â£1.2m overspend.