Wrigley unwraps $1.48bn cash deal
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Wrigley, the chewing gum maker, swallowed up the confectionery business of Kraft yesterday in a $1.48 billion cash deal chairman Bill Wrigley described as &quot;the perfect match&quot;.
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Australian company trumps hostile bid from Alcoa with $43B friendly offer.
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AT&#38;T Government Solutions said yesterday it has won a contract worth as much as $1 billion to provide a high-speed communications network to the Treasury Department.
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Kidde moved a step closer yesterday to being bought by America&#39;s United Technologies, which increased its offer for the UK fire extinguisher maker to Â£1.39bn.
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British advertising agency company WPP Group PLC has clinched a deal to buy Grey Global Group of New York in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the world&#39;s largest gum maker, agreed to buy brands including Altoids mints and Life Savers for $1.48 billion from Kraft Foods Inc.
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Carlos Zambrano and the Chicago Cubs agreed to a $12.4 million, one-year contract Tuesday, avoiding salary arbitration by striking the deal just before the scheduled hearing.
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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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Japanese outfielder Kosuke Fukudome and the Chicago Cubs reach a preliminary agreement on a four-year, $48 million contract.
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CHICAGO - Candy and gum maker Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. said Monday that it agreed to buy a number of candy brands, including Life Savers and Altoids, from Kraft Foods for $1.
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Scottish Power gives its backing to a Â£11.6bn takeover offer from Spanish energy company Iberdrola.
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The orthopedic device maker on Thursday accepted a takeover bid of $11.4 billion from a private equity consortium.
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By Tom Spoth, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 11--In February 2004, a company in Burlington received a $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Army.
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LONDON  - British fire and safety product manufacturer Kidde said it had agreed to a 1.44-billion-pound (2.09-billion-euro, 2.80-billion-dollar) takeover offer from US group United Technologies Corp.
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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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Bidding hit $6.1 billion in the federal governmentâs auction of wireless spectrum. Two bidders appear to be bidding for the most valuable national license.
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British advertising group WPP said over the weekend it would acquire rival Grey Global of the United States in a cash and stock deal worth 1.520 billion euros (1.246 billion dollars).