Blackstone to buy Pinnacle Foods for $2.16 bln
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group  plans to buy Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., known for its Vlasic pickles brand, for about $2.16 billion, the companies said on Monday.
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Equity Office Properties Trust   said on Tuesday that the Blackstone Group  raised the  price of its takeover bid to $55.50 per share, after rival  bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its own offer.
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Blackstone Group  has agreed to  buy 20 percent of chemical maker China National BlueStar  (Group) Corp for up to $600 million, the private equity groups  said on Monday, marking its first major investment in the  fast-growing market.
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor Inc   said on Friday that it had agreed to be bought for  $17.6 billion, or $40 a share, by a consortium of private  equity firms led by Blackstone Group.
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Canada&#39;s Goldcorp said Sunday it has reached an agreement in principal to buy Wheaton River Minerals in an all-stock deal valued at about $2 billion.
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U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group said on Tuesday it would buy Hilton Hotels Corp. for about $26 billion cash, the richest in a series of recent private equity offers for hotel companies.
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Equity Office Properties Trust  said on Friday it still preferred a $54-per-share cash takeover offer from private equity firm Blackstone Group despite a higher cash-and-stock bid of $56 per share from Vornado Realty Trust .
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The Blackstone Group plans to sell 10 buildings in downtown San Francisco to Morgan Stanley for $2.65 billion.
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MILAN/LONDON  - Private equity firm Blackstone Group  is in talks to buy a minority stake in Italy's No. 2 fixed-line phone operator Wind, two years after it lost out in a bid battle for the company, a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
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U.S. antitrust authorities said on  Tuesday they had approved plans by Blackstone Group LP   to buy Alliance Data Systems Corp.  for $6.76 billion.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group   plans to take a 20 to 40 percent stake in chemical maker  China National BlueStar (Group) Corp for up to $500 million, a  source close the to deal said on Thursday.
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Equity Office Properties Trust   said on Friday that its board of trustees has voted to reaffirm  its support for a $54 per share takeover offer from private  equity firm The Blackstone Group, despite a higher competing  bid from Vornado Realty Trust.
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Blackstone Group LP, the private equity firm that bought Equity Office Properties Trust in the biggest leveraged buyout ever, has sold 53 buildings in Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., and Seattle for $7.55 billion, said three people with direct knowledge of the transactions.
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US private equity group Blackstone is buying the Hilton Hotels chain for $26bn (Â£13bn) in an all-cash deal.
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The Blackstone Group announced that it would buy Hilton Hotels for $26 billion, or $47.50 a share, a 40 percent premium over its closing price on Monday.
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Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, will buy the medical nutrition unit of pharmaceutical company Novartis for $2.5 billion, the companies said Thursday.
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U.S. private equity firm Blackstone  Group  said on Tuesday it would buy Hilton Hotels Corp.   for about $26 billion cash, the richest in a series of  recent private equity offers for hotel companies.