Novar close to Â£800m cash deal with US giant
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Novar, the UK building supplies group, is today expected to announce that it has agreed to be acquired by the US industrial giant Honeywell in a cash deal worth more than Â£800m.
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The deal with the media agencies owned by the WPP Group is valued at $800 million to $900 million in commercial time.
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Honeywell International Inc., the world&#39;s largest supplier of building controls and thermostats, agreed to buy Novar Plc of the UK for 798 million pounds ($1.53 billion) to expand in security, fire and ventilation systems.
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Building supplies-to-cheque printing group Novar today agreed to be taken over by US giant Honeywell for Â£798 million. The deal sent shares in Novar up more than 14% and is
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European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti has given the green light to the UKÂ£8.75bn takeover bid by Spain&#39;s Santander for the UK&#39;s Abbey National.
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Banking and insurance conglomerate ING GroupÂ has finalized contracts worth â¬750 million ($994 million) with a consortium of companies to provide workspace services for its 53,000 employees in Europe.
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Malcolm Glazer, the American billionaire, is expected to make a new Â£800m bid for Manchester United in a move described as &quot;one last throw of the dice&quot; by shareholders opposed to the takeover.
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Ritchie Capital Management is said to be close to an agreement to sell the assets in its flagship multi-strategy fund for about $1 billion.
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US investment bank Lehman Brothers has offered to pay up to 800 million pounds (1.15 billion euros, 1.43 billion dollars) to buy British bankers Cazenove, the Financial Times reports.
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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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ARM Holdings, the British semi-conductor design company, said it has agreed to buy US technology group Artisan Components Inc. for 913 million dollars (743 million euros) in a cash and stock deal.
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A media group owned by U.S. billionaire Ronald Lauder is buying a controlling interest the Czech television network TV Nova for about $642 million, the company said Monday.
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Prudential Plc, Britain&#39;s No. 2 insurer, plans to raise 1 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) by selling new stock to help fund a UK expansion and comply with European rules on capital reserves.
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Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $200 million in cash and options. The acquisition of P-Cube is subject to various standard closing conditions and is
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Melrose, the Aim-listed investment vehicle, was looking increasingly likely to abandon its hostile bid for Novar after Honeywell International trumped it on Monday with a Â£815m cash bid.
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Europeâs biggest cross-border financial services deal in recent years was given a significant boost over the weekend when Mario Monti, European Union competition chief, in effect confirmed that EU regulators would approve the Â£8.
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Stephen Howard, chief executive of Novar, will pocket Â£1.13m for just five weeks&#39; work if Honeywell&#39;s Â£798m recommended cash offer for the building conglomerate is approved by shareholders.