Rayovac to Buy United Industries
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Battery maker Rayovac Corp. ROV.N on  Tuesday said it would buy United Industries Corp., a maker of  lawn and garden products, for about $476 million in cash and  stock in a bid to diversify its product mix.
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Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.  said on Monday it would acquire Sierra Health Services Inc.  for more than $2.4 billion to help it expand in the fast-growing U.S. Southwest region.
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Equipment rental company United Rentals Inc.  said on Monday it had accepted a $4 billion takeover bid from private equity fund Cerberus Capital Management LP.
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Dutch chemical distributor Univar NV   said on Monday it is buying U.S. chemicals  distributor Chemcentral Corp. for $600 million in cash,  including assumed debt, to expand its U.S. operations.
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Belgian drugmaker UCB UCBBt.BR has   agreed to buy Germany's Schwarz Pharma SRZG.DE for around   $5.6 billion in shares and cash, in the third major drug sector   transaction in Germany in five days.
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Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N on  Wednesday said it agreed to buy Guidant Corp. GDT.N, for  $25.4 billion in cash and stock, giving the healthcare products  maker a foothold in the fast-growing market for implantable  devices that regulate heartbeats.
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Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.  said on Monday it would acquire Sierra Health Services Inc.  for $43.50 per share to help it expand in the fast-growing U.S. Southwest.
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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla., Feb. 20  /PRNewswire/ -- United Real Estate Ventures, LLC (UREV), in partnership with The Crimson Ibis Companies and Ascot Development Group, has acquired 154 acres of entitled land in Delray Beach, Florida.
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Kidde PLC, a British fire and safety equipment maker, agreed Wednesday to open its books to United Technologies Corp. after receiving a new takeover offer from the US engineering giant.
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Cytec Industries Inc., a US maker of materials for the aerospace and car industries, agreed to buy the chemicals operations of UCB SA, Belgium&#39;s largest drugmaker, for 1.5 billion euros ($1.
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Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell has agreed to buy Novar Plc, a British industrial holding company, for 798 million pounds (&#36;1.53 billion), a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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British fire and safety product manufacturer Kidde said it had agreed to a 1.44-billion-pound takeover offer from US group United Technologies Corp.
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LONDON - New Jersey-based Honeywell International Inc., the aerospace and high-tech manufacturer, has agreed to buy the British industrial holding company Novar PLC for about $1.7 billion, the companies said Monday.
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Germany's Schwarz Pharma SRZG.DE   said on Monday it had agreed to be bought by Belgium's UCB   UCBBt.BR for around $5.6 billion in shares and cash in the   third major drug sector transaction in Germany in five days.
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British packaging group Rexam Plc  said on Monday it had agreed to buy OI Plastic Products from Owens-Illinois Inc  for $1.83 billion and that it would place 58.35 million new shares to help fund the deal.
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Cytec Industries Inc. is buying the  chemicals division of Belgian drugs company UCB for 1.5 billion  euros ($1.85 billion) in cash and stock that will double the  size of the U.S. specialty chemical firm, the companies said on  Friday.
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Platinum Equity is buying Covad Communications for about $304 million.