BASF to announce Engelhard buy: sources
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German chemical maker BASF   is set to announce an agreed deal to buy U.S.  catalyst firm Engelhard  for around &#36;5.1 billion, sources  familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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Bayer AG, the German drug and chemical company, has agreed to sell its plasma products business for $590 million in cash and stock to the private U.S. investment groups Cerberus Capital Management and Ampersand ...
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HypoVereinsbank, Germany's second biggest bank, said it had agreed to buy a portfolio of loans to mid-size corporate customers from ING BHF-Bank, the German arm of Dutch financial services group ING.
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By NO BYLINE  IMPERIAL Chemical Industries nudged higher yesterday as traders cited market talk of a possible bid from German rival BASF, and interest from Dutch group Akzo Nobel.   ICI, maker of Dulux paints, declined to comment on the rumour.
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The head of French bank Societe Generale  has hired investment banks to advise on the possibility of a merger with larger domestic rival BNP Paribas , Les Echos newspaper reported on Friday.
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BASF, the world's biggest chemicals maker, expressed confidence on Thursday for the 2007 business year after the booming economy and acquisitions enabled it to notch up better-than-expected results last year.
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German industrial conglomerate MAN AG   will offer cash and shares to buy Scania AB (SCVb.ST)  in a bid that values the Swedish truckmaker at 9.6 billion  euros ($12.2 billion) in total, MAN said early on Monday.
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An investment group is expected to  announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water  utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion (2.2 billion  pounds, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on  Sunday.
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Andrew Liveris, chief executive of Dow Chemical Co., declined on Friday to comment on recent rumors Dow is interested in buying BASF AG , while adding the deals that interest him are the ones that fit gaps the company has identified.
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Britain-based brewer SABMiller and a number of international rivals are interested in snapping up Colombian brewer Grupo Empresarial Bavaria, a source close to the case revealed.
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Germany's MAN AG is preparing a more   attractive offer for Sweden's Scania SCVb.ST, the Wall Street   Journal on Friday quoted MAN MANG.DE Chief Executive Hakan   Samuelsson as saying.
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The group, which claims to have acquired two-thirds of all German bad loans sold by banks last year, is negotiating to buy tiny Mitteleurop ische Handelsbank from NordLB, the Hanover-based regional bank, in ...
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Germany's MAN AG  will soon  raise its bid for truck maker Scania (SCVb.ST), a Swedish  newspaper said on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
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Germany's MAN AG is preparing a more  attractive offer for Sweden's Scania (SCVb.ST), the Wall Street  Journal on Friday quoted MAN  Chief Executive Hakan  Samuelsson as saying.
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(AGI) - Rome, Italy, Oct 5 - Generali, together with the German group HDI/Talanx and the French Axa, is one of the companies interested in buying Winterthur, Financial Times writes.
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German chemicals giant BASF is hoping to receive the green light from the European regulatory authorities for a genetically modified potato this year, a top executive said in a newspaper interview published Monday.
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BERLIN - Bayer AG, the German drug and chemical company, has agreed to sell its plasma products business for $590 million in cash and stock to the private US investment groups Cerberus Capital Management and Ampersand Ventures.