ONGC acquires West Australian co, signs MOU with Karnataka
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Bangalore: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) acquired a Canadian off-shore oilfield in West Australia yesterday, its Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Subir Raha, announced today.
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Alcar Chemicals Group Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ACMG) announces today that it has received a competing offer from a consortium located in South East Asia.
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Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for about $10.3 billion, the companies said this morning.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia's Macquarie Group in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.
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Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers Ltd. on Monday offered 21.9 billion Australian dollars, or $18.6 billion, for retailer Coles Group Ltd. &#151; the largest takeover bid in Australian corporate history.
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Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. will   acquire Glamis Gold Ltd. in a stock transaction worth $21.3   billion to create one of the world's largest gold mining   companies, the firms said on Thursday.
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U.S. oil and gas producer Anadarko   Petroleum Corp. APC.N on Friday said it agreed to buy smaller   rivals Kerr-McGee Corp. KMG.N and Western Gas Resources Inc.   WGR.N for more than $21 billion in cash to expand in the U.S.   Gulf of Mexico and Rocky Mountains regions.
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Oil and gas producer Noble Energy Inc. (NBL) agreed to buy Patina Oil &amp; Gas Corp. (POG) in a cash and stock deal, helping it expand into the natural gas-rich Rocky Mountain region, the companies said on Thursday.
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Giant retailer Coles Myer has lifted its bid for pubs group Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality (ALH) to Aust. $1.32 billion ($978 million) in an attempt to secure a knockout victory over arch-rival Woolworths.
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Russia said on Saturday it would welcome more offers for the assets of oil major YUKOS as the only declared bidder, Gazprom, inked a cooperation deal with India's state-run ONGC oil firm.
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Another Australian mining company is destined for foreign ownership after Canada&#39;s LionOre Mining International Ltd.
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RMC Group, the world&#39;s largest maker of ready-mixed concrete, today accepted a Â£2.3bn takeover bid from Mexico&#39;s Cemex, the world&#39;s third-largest cement maker.
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Wesfarmers Ltd. , which owns Australia's largest hardware chain, has agreed to buy retailer Coles Group Ltd.  for A$20.7 billion ($17.7 billion) in cash and stock, in the country's biggest takeover.
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UK media company NTL has entered into an agreement to sell its broadcast business to a consortium led by Australian firm Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (MCG) and other third party investors for a purchase price of â¬1.84bn.
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The Motley Fool - Here's something you don't see every day -- the continuing brouhaha between Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT - News) being a notable exception. South Africa's Harmony Gold Mining Company (NYSE: HMY - News) has announced a hostile takeover bid to acquire fellow South African miner Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI - News). The transaction, if it takes place, would be an all-stock acquisition, with Harmony issuing 1.275 new shares in payment for each share of Gold Fields. The deal would value Gold Fields at more than &#36;8 billion. ...
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Teck Cominco  said on Tuesday it would buy Aur Resources  in a friendly cash and stock offer worth C$4.1 billion ($3.87 billion), boosting the base metal giant's copper production.
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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.