Alcoa sells packaging unit for $2.7 billion
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Alcoa Inc said on Friday it agreed to sell its packaging and consumer businesses to New Zealand's Rank Group Limited for $2.7 billion in cash, the latest move by the world's third-largest aluminum producer to focus on its core business.
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Owens-Illinois Inc.  said on Monday it will sell its plastics packaging business to Rexam Plc , the world's biggest can maker, for about $1.825 billion.
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Paper and packaging maker MeadWestvaco  Corp. has agreed to sell its paper business and associated  assets for $2.3 billion to reduce its debt and focus on growing  in global packaging markets, the company said on Tuesday.
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MONTREAL/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  offered $38.1 billion to buy Canada's Alcan Inc in an agreed deal to create the world's No. 1 aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc
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Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto struck a deal Thursday to buy Canada&#39;s Alcan, outbidding US rival Alcoa in a mammoth move that would create the world&#39;s largest aluminium company.
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A Chicago developer of regional shopping malls said today it will buy Maryland's The Rouse Co. for about $7.2 billion.
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Alcoa Inc., the world's top aluminum maker, is selling its entire stake in Aluminum Corp of China Ltd  (Chalco) for up to US$2 billion, reaping a potential profit on its investment of as much as US$1.9 billion.
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Carlyle Group is in talks to buy Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc., the world's largest chip packager, for $5.7 billion as demand for computer and mobile-phone components increases.
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Alcan Inc., the world&#39;s biggest aluminum maker by sales, agreed to sell its Pechiney Electrometallurgie ferroalloy division to Spain&#39;s Ferroatlantica SL for more than 100 million euros ($136 million).
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Technology products retailer CDW agreed to a private equity buyout worth 7.3 billion dollars in the latest in a wave of takeovers.
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San Miguel Corp. , Asia's  biggest food and drinks group, has agreed to sell its 65  percent stake in a soft drinks venture with Coca Cola Co.   to the U.S. giant for around $700 million, industry  sources said.
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DIY chain Home Depot sells its supply unit to a private equity group for almost $2bn less than originally agreed.
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Canadian aluminum giant Alcan Inc. has signed an agreement to buy gas from Australia&#39;s Woodside Petroleum for a planned 2 billion Australian dollar (US$1.
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The Canadian aluminum company has agreed to be purchased by the Indian company Hindalco Industries.
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The Dutch retail giant Ahold said Tuesday it had finalised the sale of its US division US Foodservice to private equity funds Clayton, Dubilier, Rice and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for 7.1 billion dollars (5.2 billion euros).
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Alcan Inc. AL.TO AL.N, the  Canadian aluminum maker, is considering a sale of its rolled  products business in a transaction that might fetch $4 billion  to $5 billion, after in May announcing a plan to spin the  business off, the New York Post said on Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Alcoa Inc. and Australia&#39;s BHP Billiton have agreed to sell Integris Metals to Ryerson Tull for $410 million in cash, plus assumption of $250 million in debt, the companies said late Tuesday.