Jones to Buy Barneys in &#36;400 Mln Deal
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Mid-priced clothing retailer and maker Jones Apparel Group Inc.  said on Thursday it was buying Barneys New York Inc.  in a deal worth &#36;400 million as a move to expand into luxury apparel retailing.
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Japan's Fast Retailing makes a $900m (Â£448m) takeover bid for US department store chain Barneys New York.
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Dow Jones & Co. DJ.N, publisher of  The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy online financial  news provider MarketWatch Inc. MKTW.O for about $463 million  in a bid to boost its revenue from the fast-growing Internet  advertising market.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--The world&#39;s largest owner of shopping malls, Australia&#39;s Westfield Group (WDC.AU), bid GBP585 million for Chelsfield PLC (CLF.
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The sportswear label of luxury basics that became a $50 million business will be bought by the Kellwood Company.
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Children's Place Retail Stores Inc.  on Wednesday said it will buy Walt Disney Co.'s  chain of North American retail stores and pledged to invest &#36;100 million in them.
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Arts and crafts retailer Michaels  Stores Inc.  said on Friday it agreed to be bought by  two private equity groups for more than &#36;6 billion in a deal  that attracted many of the world&#039;s largest buyout firms.
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Women's clothing retailer Dress Barn  Inc. DBRN.O said Wednesday it plans to buy Maurices Inc.,  which sells apparel and accessories for young women and men,  for $320 million.
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Upscale US retailer Barney&#39;s New York is being sold to a Dubai state-owned investment firm for 825 million dollars in cash, Barney&#39;s parent Jones Apparel Group announced Friday.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson has agreed to buy Guidant Corp. for $25.4 billion in cash and stock, the companies said on Wednesday, giving the healthcare products maker a foothold
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TowerBrook Capital Partners has agreed to buy Jimmy Choo Ltd., for $364 million.
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Jones Apparel Group Inc.  is  nearing a deal to sell its luxury Barneys New York department  store chain to a private equity firm owned by the Dubai  government, according to reports by two news organizations on  Wednesday.
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The Dubai government&#39;s private equity arm, Istithmar, said on Saturday it was buying luxury speciality retailer Barneys New York for 825 million dollars from Jones Apparel Group.
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MarketWatch, the owner of a leading financial news site, CBS MarketWatch, is soliciting bids expected to be as much as $400 million for the company.
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Jones Apparel Group Inc.  is close to a deal to sell Barneys New York luxury department store chain for $825 million to Dubai's private equity firm Istithmar, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday.
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Jones Apparel Group said Thursday it struck a deal to acquire Barneys New York Inc., agreeing to pay $400 million for the upscale clothing retailer&#39;s outstanding stock and debt.
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Bank of America Corp on Friday said it agreed to acquire struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp for about $4 billion  (2.04 billion pounds) in stock, a move that could help avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.