Ahold to Sell Spain Operations to Permira
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The Dutch supermarket retailer Ahold, seeking to streamline global operations and reduce debt, said Sunday it will sell its holdings in Spain to Permira Funds for about &#36;849 million.
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Royal Ahold, the Dutch supermarket operator that owns Giant Food, reported record quarterly earnings yesterday on gains from the sale of its U.S. Foodservice division in Columbia.
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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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TOKYO/PHILADELPHIA  - Global private equity firm Permira , said it had won the race to buy agrichemical company Arysta LifeScience Corp for about 250 billion yen ($2.2 billion) enterprise value, marking its first deal in Japan.
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The Spanish airline Iberia said that it had received information on a takeover bid led by the private equity group TPG and that its board would study the offer at its next meeting. TPG is working in a consortium with British Airways, which owns 10 percent of Iberia; an investment fund, Vista Capital; and two private equity firms, Ibersuizas and Quercus Equity, which holds 20 percent of Iberiaâs low-cost off-shoot Clickair. Iberiaâs board met on Thursday and had been expected to open its books to the bidding group. Iberia did not say when the board was to meet next.
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ZAANDAM - Dutch food retailing giant Ahold announced it would take over a 20% stake in the ICA Swedish supermarket chain from Norwegian Canica group for 811 million euros.
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Mexico's Grupo TMM agreed to sell its  51 percent voting stake in Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria  Mexicana SA de CV, or Grupo TFM, to Kansas City Southern  Industries Inc. for $200 million in cash and 18 million shares  of stock, the companies said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK -- International supermarket retailer Royal Ahold said Thursday it will sell two of its US chains, BI-LO and Bruno&#39;s, to Lone Star Funds for $660 million.
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AMSTERDAM  - Global food retailer Royal Ahold NV said Thursday it will sell two of its U.S. grocery chains, BI-LO and Bruno's, to Dallas-based Lone Star Funds for &#36;560 million US in cash.
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Ahold has agreed to sell its Bruno's and BI-LO shop units in the United States to Lone Star Funds for $660 million, the Dutch retailer said yesterday.
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European plane maker Airbus   plans to agree in the coming week to sell four of its European  factories to U.S. group Spirit AeroSystems Holdings , a  German newspaper reported on Saturday.
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The Dutch retailer Ahold has sold its network of almost 600 Spanish retail stores to the private equity group Permira in an $850 million deal, the two companies said on Sunday.
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Perrigo (PRGO:Nasdaq - news - research), a maker of nonprescription drugs and nutritional products, said Monday that it would acquire Agis Industries, the second largest drug company in Israel, for stock and cash worth $818 million.
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LONDON Banco Santander Central Hispano, Spain&#39;s biggest bank, said Thursday that it was selling as much as Â£1.26 billion of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland Group, scaling back its 16-year partnership with the British bank as it seeks to buy Abbey
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The European Commission said it had approved the acquisition by Spain's Repsol YSF of most of the Portuguese products and businesses belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell.
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Dutch bank and insurer ING Group said Monday it will sell the activities of Baring Asset Management, nearly a decade after it purchased the remains of the bankrupt British bank Barings.
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Permira, the private equity firm that owns New Look, has moved to increase its exposure to the retail sector by bidding for Toys &#39;R&#39; Us, the struggling toy chain.