Buyout Firm and Partner Bid for British Drugstores
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is teaming up with the Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina to make a takeover bid for Alliance Boots, Britainâs largest drugstore chain.
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The small pharmaceutical firm signs another big deal.
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Private equity groups CVC Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone are mulling a takeover of J Sainsbury, the third-biggest biggest supermarket chain in Britain.
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The company teams up with AstraZeneca to bring its antibiotic to worldwide markets.
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KKR, the private equity firm buying Alliance Boots, reaches a deal with the chemist's pension trustees.
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A takeover attempt follows management shakeups at the biopharmaceutical firm.
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Schering-Plough Corp  has agreed to buy Akzo Nobel NV's  drugs unit Organon BioSciences for 11 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in a bid to gain scale and diversify away from cholesterol medicine.
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AEROSPACE and defence group Smiths is dipping into its Â£1.4bn acquisition war chest to buy medical equipment firm Medex for Â£476m.
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Business & money: UK drugs giant, faces a surgical strike over its dismal share price performance.
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The audacious takeover bid that could lead to lower drug prices for consumers.
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Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel  said it will be able to sell some of its British and Irish paint businesses as part of its divestment plan with European regulators who approved its 8 billion pound ($16.3 billion) acquisition of Britain's ICI
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As part of its push to become a bigger player in cancer drugs, Genzyme Corp. of Cambridge said yesterday it will buy out business partner Bioenvision Inc. of New York for $345 million , consolidating its ownership of a cancer treatment to which the two companies had been sharing rights.
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Luxury car business Aston Martin has been sold to a British-led consortium.
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Media & professional: A British firm agrees to pay Â£4m to NHS over alleged price-fixing of medicine.
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Buyout funds Cerberus  and JC Flowers have not ruled out re-entering the race to buy ailing bank Northern Rock Plc  after Britain smoothed financing for a deal, people familiar with the matter said.
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Belgian biopharmaceutical group UCB has made a friendly takeover offer of 4.4 billion euros (5.6 billion dollars) to buy German company Schwarz Pharma, the two firms said.
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The company said that it also would consider âselectâ acquisitions and was looking for other pharmacy-related health care opportunities.