Diageo to Buy Chalone for $260 Million
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Chalone Wine Group Ltd. said Monday that it terminated the company&#39;s merger agreement with Domaines Barons de Rothschild, and agreed to be acquired by British beverage company Diageo PLC for $14.25 per share in cash.
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PARIS/NEW YORK  - French oilfield services group   Compagnie Generale de Geophysique is to buy Texas-based Veritas   DGC Inc. in a $3.1 billion deal to merge their seismic   businesses, the companies said on Tuesday.
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LONDON : Drinks giant Diageo said it had raised 2.26 billion dollars (1.84 billion euros) from the sale of 49.9 million shares in US food company General Mills Inc.
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London - British drinks giant Diageo on Tuesday said it had raised $2.26 billion (R15 billion) from the sale of 49.9 million shares in US food company General Mills.
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Reporting by Caroline Jacobs and Mark McSherry PARIS/NEW   YORK  - French oilfield services group Compagnie   Generale de Geophysique is to buy Texas-based Veritas DGC Inc.   in a $3.1 billion deal to merge their seismic businesses, the   companies said on Tuesday.
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Qiagen NV , a Dutch maker of  genetic testing equipment, said on Sunday it will acquire  Digene Corp. ., which develops screening tests for  diseases affecting women, for $1.6 billion in stock and cash.
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French oilfield services group   Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG) and Texas-based Veritas   DGC Inc. said on Tuesday that CGG agreed to buy Veritas in a   cash and stock deal worth about $3.1 billion.
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Transocean Inc. , the world's largest offshore driller, said on Monday it would buy GlobalSantaFe Corp.  for about $17 billion in a no-premium deal, adding a fleet of shallow-water drilling rigs to its deepwater equipment.
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Diageo has raised $2.26bn (â¬1.84bn) from the sale of 49.9 million shares of common stock held in US-based Cheerios cereal maker General Mills.
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Transocean Inc. , the world's largest offshore driller, said on Monday it would buy GlobalSantaFe Corp.  for nearly $18 billion, adding shallow-water drilling rigs to its deepwater fleet.
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Britain&#39;s Diageo Plc (DGE.L: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s biggest spirits group raised $2.26 billion from its sale of 49.
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Pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds.
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Diageo is looking to sell part of its stake in General Mills Inc. The drinks giant announced yesterday (4 October) that it plans to sell around 33.
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Data storage firm EMC Corp. said Tuesday it agreed to purchase Smarts Inc., a privately held maker of event automation and network systems management software, for about $260 million in cash.
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By John Gittelsohn, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Dec. 6--Emulex Corp., a Costa Mesa maker of computer networking and  server connections, announced plans to buy back up to $150 million in stock  over the next two years.
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ReAble Therapeutics, the orthopedic-device maker controlled by the private equity company Blackstone Group, agreed to purchase DJO for $1.6 billion.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- UK beverage company Diageo (DEO) has struck a deal to buy Napa Valley&#39;s Chalone Wine Group (CHLN) for $186 million, people familiar with the talks were quoted as saying Monday by the Los Angeles Times online.