Wrigley to Buy Life Savers, Altoids
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.  is buying the Life Savers and Altoids candy and mint businesses from Kraft Foods Inc.  for &#36;1.48 billion, the companies said on Monday.
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Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., maker of Juicy Fruit and Wrigley Spearmint gum, is spending $1.48 billion to buy Life Savers and Altoids mints from Kraft.
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Exelon Corp. , the nation's largest nuclear power company, has agreed to buy New Jersey utility Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.  for &#36;13.2 billion in stock, creating the nation's largest utility, the companies said on Monday.
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. agreed to buy the Altoids mints and Life Savers brands for $1.48 billion from Kraft Foods Inc., its biggest acquisition ever, to expand its share of the candy market.
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The world's dominant chewing gum maker is about to get sweeter. Looking to extend more of its marketing might from gum to candy, Wm. Wrigley Jr. said yesterday that it has agreed to buy LifeSavers and Altoids from Kraft Foods in a $1.48 billion cash deal that refocuses Kraft's attention on its trademark supermarket products.
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Wrigley today announced plans to buy those brands from Kraft Foods for one-point-four-eight (B) billion dollars. The sale includes the Life Savers, Creme Savers and Altoids brands, as well as several local
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Johnson &amp; Johnson, the world&#39;s biggest maker of medical devices, may buy defibrillator maker Guidant Corp. for $24 billion, people familiar with the situation said today.
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Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical and health care giant, is near a deal to buy Guidant, one of the nation's largest makers of devices to treat heart and circulatory illnesses.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced last night that will buy medical-device maker Guidant for $23.9 billion in cash and stock. The deal, approved by both boards but subject to regulator approval, is one of the largest
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The worldâs dominant chewing-gum maker is looking to extend its marketing might to candy. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. said Monday that it has agreed to buy the
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Kraft and Wrigley make a minty-fresh deal.