Permira buys Ahold Spanish stores
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Dutch retailer Ahold has sold its network of about 600 Spanish retail stores to private equity group Permira. The two parties valued the deal at 685m euros ($850m; Â£472m).
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Enel, an Italian utility, said it had bought a 10 percent stake in Endesa, the Spanish utility, for 4.1 billion euros ($5.4 billion), possibly breaking up an attempt by a German company, E.On, to buy Endesa. Enel, based in Rome, said it had acquired 9.99 percent of Endesa at 39 euros a share, above E.Onâs bid of 38.75 euros and Endesaâs closing price of 38.12 euros. E.On raised its offer for Endesa this month to 41 billion euros ($54.2 billion) and emerged as the leading bidder, ahead of Gas Natural of Spain. It has cleared a number of legal hurdles in a bidding war that has lasted more than a year. Analysts said another bidder, Acciona, also of Spain, might revive its interest in Endesa as a result of Enelâs action.
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The Spanish power company Iberdrola SA plans to buy regional utility owner Energy East Corp. for $4.5 billion in cash, giving it a foothold in the United States, the companies said yesterday.
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Cisco Systems has announced its intention to buy privately-held Perfigo, but while waiting for the acquisition to close, Cisco has licensed Perfigo&#39;s technology in an OEM deal.
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BORDERS-based biotech ProStrakan has made its second Spanish acquisition in as many months as it continues in its quest to build an established infrastructure throughout Europe.
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A company with a middle-brow reputation announced a deal today to buy the singularly trendy clothing chain.
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London - Marks and Spencer on Tuesday announced it had acquired the &quot;per una&quot; clothing brand for Â£125 million (R1.44 billion), in a deal the group hopes will help to lift falling sales.
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The Perrigo Company, the world's largest maker of store-branded over-the-counter drugs, reached an agreement to buy Agis Industries, a developer and manufacturer of prescription generic drugs.
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The European Commission said it had approved the acquisition by Spain's Repsol YSF of most of the Portuguese products and businesses belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell.
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Luton Airport was bought by the Spanish yesterday as part of a Â£551m takeover deal which will net the men who run it almost Â£60m.
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Food and clothing chain Marks &amp; Spencer PLC said Tuesday it had bought the per una clothing brand from businessman George Davies for 125 million pounds (US$223 million, euro182 million).
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BBVA has agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc. for $9.6 billion, the Spanish bank said on Friday, realizing a long-held ambition to gain a firm footing in the United States.
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Permira, the private equity firm that owns New Look, has moved to increase its exposure to the retail sector by bidding for Toys &#39;R&#39; Us, the struggling toy chain.
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Acciona, a Spanish builder, bought 10 percent of Endesa, the countryÂs biggest power company, for 3.4 billion euros ($4.3 billion), throwing a new twist into a takeover battle for Endesa. Acciona said it did not plan to make a takeover bid, but it did not rule out increasing its stake. The 10 percent share matches that of EndesaÂs largest shareholder, Caja Madrid. Endesa is the target of competing takeover bids from E.On of Germany and Gas Natural of Spain. The price Acciona paid for its stake, 32 euros a share, is 26 percent more than E.OnÂs bid, a factor that might force E.On to raise its bid or to withdraw because of the high price, analysts said.
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TOKYO/PHILADELPHIA  - Global private equity firm Permira , said it had won the race to buy agrichemical company Arysta LifeScience Corp for about 250 billion yen ($2.2 billion) enterprise value, marking its first deal in Japan.
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Grupo Martinsa, a Spanish real estate company, agreed to buy Fadesa Inmobiliaria, another real estate company, for about 4 billion euros ($5.1 billion) to quadruple its land holdings. Martinsa, a closely held company based in Madrid, bid 35.70 euros for each of the remaining shares, 21 percent more than the closing price Wednesday of 29.55 euros. Manuel JovÃ©, chairman of Fadesa, agreed to sell his familyÂs 54.6 percent stake in the company, based in La CoruÃ±a. House prices have been rising in Spain for seven years and the purchase of Fadesa is the fourth acquisition of a real estate company in the country since June.
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US consumer healthcare company Perrigo is to buy Israeli drug-maker Agis for $818m (Â£441.5m) in cash and stock. The deal will create a firm with annual sales of $1.