Abbott acquires nutrition firm EAS in deal valued at $320 million
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Abbott Laboratories Inc. has agreed to buy the nutrition firm EAS Inc. for $320 million. The two companies said Monday the cash transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter, pending regulatory approval.
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Roche Holding AG, the world's biggest maker of diagnostic tests, offered to buy Ventana Medical Systems Inc. for about $3 billion as it expands screening to match patients with the right drugs.
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Nestle SA completed its $2.5 billion takeover of Novartis Medical Nutrition, the food and drinks giant said Monday.
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Food distributor Performance Food Group said it agreed to be acquired by Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management for about $1.3 billion in cash.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck MRCG.DE   unveiled a $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm   Serono SEO.VX, and Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of   Altana ALTG.DE.
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Schering-Plough Corporation has announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Bayer designed to maximize the companies&#39; pharmaceutical resources while maintaining each company&#39;s own strategic interests.
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Defense technology developer Foster-Miller Inc. of Waltham says it will be acquired for $163 million by Britain's QinetiQ Group PLC, a public-private partnership with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense.
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Gilead Sciences Inc. , the world's third-biggest biotechnology company, said on Monday it agreed to acquire Myogen Inc.  for $2.5 billion in a surprise transaction that gives Gilead access to Myogen's experimental hypertension drugs.
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American Oriental Bioengineering makes an acquisition.
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Nestle , the world's largest food group, is buying the medical nutrition business of Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG  for $2.525 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
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Worley Group Limited (WOR) today announced that it was to acquire Parsons E&amp;C Corporation for a consideration of $350 million.
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AUSTRALIAN Pharmaceutical Industries has acquired New Price Retail in an attempt to bolster its retail presence amid growing competition from Woolworths and Coles.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs  sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck unveiled a  $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm Serono, and  Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of Altana.
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Smiths Group is to buy Medex, a US healthcare company, for $925m (Â£477m), including $300m of debt, in the biggest deal for the UK engineering conglomerate since the merger of Smiths and TI Group in 2000.
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Abbott Laboratories Inc. ABT.N on  Tuesday said its fourth-quarter profit rose 3.2 percent, helped  by surging sales of two arthritis drugs, including one that  many doctors now deem safer than newer treatments such as  Pfizer Inc.'s Celebrex.
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Abbott Laboratories Inc. ABT.N on  Tuesday said its fourth-quarter profit rose 3.2 percent on  higher sales of its prescription drugs, including its popular  new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, Humira.
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AWB Ltd., Australia&#39;s monopoly wheat exporter, won a contract worth about A$340 million ($267 million) to supply China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp.