Wrigley to Buy Life Savers for $1.48 Bln
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. WWY.N is buying  the Life Savers and Altoids candy and mint businesses from  Kraft Foods Inc. KFT.N for $1.48 billion, the companies said  on Monday.
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United States Steel will buy the Canadian steel producer Stelco for $1.1 billion, a purchase making it the worldâs fifth-largest steel maker.
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Wrigley (NYSE: WWY) may be the first name you think of when you think of the minty freshness of gums such as Big Red, Juicy Fruit, and Doublemint, but there were a few well-known confections that it didn&#39;t possess.
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IHOP Corp.  said on Monday it plans to buy bar-and-grill chain Applebee's International Inc.  for $25.50 per share to expand beyond its iconic pancake houses, sending IHOP's shares up as much as 12 percent to an all-time high.
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Chemical maker Basell said on Tuesday it would buy Lyondell Chemical Co.  for about $12.14 billion, giving it access to Lyondell's commodity assets and refining capacity.
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British advertising firm WPP WPP.L has agreed to buy  smaller U.S. rival Gray Global for $1.31 billion, equally  divided in cash and shares, to put it on par with industry  leader Omnicom OMC.N. Gray Global shares closed at $940 on  Nasdaq.
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Kraft Foods Inc., the largest food company in the United States, said Monday that it agreed to sell its sugar confectionery business to Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the world's largest chewing gum maker, for $1.48 billion.
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Kidde on Thursday recommended a sweetened 165p per share bid from United Technologies Corporation valuing the UK fire protection group at Â£1.44bn.
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_ Kidde PLC, the British fire and safety company, said Thursday it had agreed to a 1.4 billion pound ($2.8 billion) takeover by United Technologies Corp.
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General Electric Co. GE.N on Monday  said it would buy a fire detection systems business from SPX  Corp. SPW.N for nearly $1.4 billion in cash in a move to  bolster its building and security systems unit.
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IHOP Corp.  said it plans to buy bar-and-grill chain Applebee's International Inc.  for $25.50 per share to expand beyond its iconic pancake houses, sending IHOP's shares up nearly 12 percent on Monday to an all-time high.
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The Chicago Cubs declined an $11.5 million mutual option on the outfielder Thursday and will pay him aa $2.5 million buyout. The Cubs also declined a $2.
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Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc. has reached a settlement agreement with its former subsidiary, Protection One Inc. The settlement also includes affiliates of the purchaser of Westar Energy&#39;s (NYSE: WR) interest in Protection One, Quadrangle Group.
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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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Exelon, which owns utility companies in Illinois and Pennsylvania, has said that it will buy Public Service Enterprise Group of New Jersey in a deal valued at about $12.8 billion that would create the largest power company in the United States.
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NEW YORK - Food giant Kraft Foods Inc. has put its Altoids breath mints and Life Savers brands on the block in a sale that could generate well over $1 billion, people familiar with the situation said Friday.