Imperial buys 4th biggest U.S. cigarette maker
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Britain's Imperial Tobacco agreed to buy Commonwealth Brands, the fourth-biggest cigarette maker in the United States, but its shares fell on Thursday as speculation faded it might be a bid target itself.
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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 in cash, the  companies said on Monday.
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America's biggest steel maker, International Steel Group Inc., agreed to a $4.5 billion buyout bid from a Dutch concern in a multipart transaction that will create the world's largest steel company.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. said on Friday it was in talks to buy smaller rival Gallaher Group Plc after sources close to the matter said the world's third-biggest cigarette group had made a 7.5 billion pound ($14.7 billion) cash offer for Gallaher.
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Wrigley, the world&#39;s largest maker of chewing gum, on Monday took a step towards diversifying into other confectionery products with the acquisition for $1.48bn in cash of Kraft Foods&#39; sugar confectionery business.
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Johnson & Johnson will acquire the cardiac device manufacturer for $25.4 billion. The acquisition is the largest business deal in J&J's 118-year history
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If approved, the deal would be the largest acquisition in the European tobacco industry.
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Overseas Shipholding Group Inc., the largest US-based oil tanker owner, agreed to buy Stelmar Shipping Ltd. for about $843 million.
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British American Tobacco the world's  second biggest cigarette maker, beat forecasts with a 13.5  percent rise in third-quarter profits as upbeat trading from  Italy and Russia offset Canadian problems and the strong pound.
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Imperial Tobacco , which is looking to take over rival Altadis , met forecasts with a 12 percent rise in annual earnings on Tuesday, but a delay until January in completing the Altadis deal hit its shares.
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Ispat International (ISPA.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) will buy LNM Holdings and International Steel Group Inc. (ISG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , forming the world&#39;s largest
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BRUSSELS/SAO PAULO  - Shareholders gave their  blessing on Friday for Belgium's Interbrew INTB.BR to buy  Brazil's AmBev AMBV4.SA ABV.N in a deal valued at about 8  billion euros ($9.7 billion) that will create the world's  largest brewer.
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Gallaher, the maker of Silk Cut and Benson & Hedges cigarettes, says it has been approached by a buyer.
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Lee Enterprises Inc. is buying Pulitzer Inc.  --  publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arizona Daily Star and a dozen other daily newspapers  --  in a $1.46 billion deal that Lee said would create the nation's fourth-largest newspaper publisher. The nation's biggest newspaper publisher, Gannett Co., said it had also been a bidder.
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Reynolds American Inc., the nation&#39;s second biggest cigarette maker reporting earnings for the first time since the combination of RJ Reynolds and the US operations of Brown
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Imperial Tobacco said Tuesday it had handed shareholders in Franco-Spanish cigarette maker Altadis an extra week to accept its takeover bid worth 12.8 billion euros (18.8 billion dollars).
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General Electric Co. agreed to buy a Citigroup business that provides lending and leasing services to the trucking industry for $4.4 billion in cash to build its commercial finance unit in areas where it already has expertise.