Lastminute owner agrees takeover
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The US firm which owns online retailer Lastminute.com agrees to a $4.5bn takeover bid by two private equity firms.
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Inter Link Foods, a Lancashire bakery firm which employs 1,800 staff, is bought just hours after going into administration.
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Business & money: Deal could trigger takeover bid for seller Whitbread.
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Online social music site Last.fm is acquired by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (Â£140m).
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AWG, the owner of Anglian Water, accepts a Â£2.2bn takeover bid from a group led by private equity firm 3i.
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ONE of the UK&#39;s biggest industrial companies is set for Mexican ownership after agreeing to a Â£2.3bn takeover offer. Directors of Egham-based RMC - the world&#39;s largest ready-mixed concrete producer - have
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec. 12--Lawrence's largest private-sector employer is getting a new  owner as part of a $600 million deal designed to speed the company's existing  plans for growth.
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The James River Group, a property and casualty insurer, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by the hedge fund D. E. Shaw Group for $575 million in cash.
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Hospital operator HCA Inc.   is close to an agreement to be acquired by an investor group  for about $21 billion in one of the largest leveraged buyouts  in history, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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The sale of National Australia Bank&#39;s Irish businesses reached a surprise conclusion yesterday when Denmark&#39;s Danske Bank clinched a Â£967m takeover.
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Bus firm FirstGroup has announced the agreed purchase of Laidlaw International, owner of iconic US inter-city bus operator Greyhound, for 3.6 billion dollars.
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Peoplesoft agrees a $10.3bn takeover bid from rival business software firm Oracle, after an 18-month corporate battle.
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Another billionaire NFL owner is set to take over an English soccer club. Cleveland Browns' owner Randy Lerner put in a $118.8 million bid Monday to buy Aston Villa, one of the oldest clubs in English soccer. Last year, Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer took over Manchester United, one of the world's most popular soccer teams.
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The travel reservation company agreed Monday night to be sold to Silver Lake Partners and the Texas Pacific Group.
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The British soccer club Manchester United said on Monday that it had received a preliminary takeover offer, which one person close to the talks said was from the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Malcolm Glazer.
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Manor Care Inc. &lt;HCR.N&gt;, the largest U.S. owner of nursing homes, on Monday said it agreed to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion, the latest health-care provider taken off the public market by a private equity buyer.
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The orthopedic device maker on Thursday accepted a takeover bid of $11.4 billion from a private equity consortium.