Sports marketing firm IMG bought
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Marketing firm Forstmann Little is set to buy giant sports and lifestyle management company IMG. The firm is being acquired from trusts set up by IMG founder, Mark McCormack, who died in May 2003, and from the family of IMG vice-chair Arthur Lafave.
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Ken Bates has bought back fallen football giants Leeds United after heading up a consortium which has purchased the club from administrators.
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Australian property group Investa agrees to be bought by US investment giant Morgan Stanley for $3.9bn.
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Electronic Arts Inc , the  video game publisher, said on Thursday it reached a deal to  form a strategic partnership with IMG, the sports and  entertainment marketing firm.
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Popups for everyone Fox Interactive Media (FIM), part of News Corp, is buying online advertising firm Strategic Data Corporation (SDC).â¦
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UnitedHealth Group buys Definity Health, which offers consumer-driven options.
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The Mouse House expands internationally with a sports-related acquisition.
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Nike agrees to buy UK sportswear firm Umbro in a deal that values the company at Â£285m.
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Bayer BAYG.DE had completed its  acquisition of Roche Holding's ROG.VX consumer drugs unit,  the German chemical and drugs group said on Saturday.
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Advertising giant WPP is to buy US firm Grey Global, in a deal which could be worth as much as Â£750m ($1.3bn). The UK-based group won the auction for Grey Global, the seventh-largest advertiser in the US, against
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Time Warner Inc's  AOL said on  Tuesday it has purchased buy.at, an online affiliate marketing  network, as part of a strategy to bolster its Internet  advertising operations.
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JJB Sports buys a 10% stake in sportswear firm Umbro, after rumours that Umbro is being targeted by a suitor.
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Blog: Photo-sharing site, most popular overseas, bought by  French company Hi-Media Group.
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Financial group ING has agreed to sell Baring Asset Management to US groups MassMutual and Northern Trust and says it will make a net gain of 250 million euros (176 million pounds) on the deal.
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LagardÃ¨re, FranceÂs largest publisher, agreed to buy Sportfive for 865 million euros ($1.1 billion) to enter the market for soccer and rugby broadcasting. Sportfive, whose main shareholders are Advent International, Goldman Sachs, Capital Partners and the RTL Group, is expected to have 2006 sales of 526 million euros, LagardÃ¨re said. The purchase price includes debt. LagardÃ¨re, formerly one of FranceÂs biggest military contractors, has purchased media companies to diversify from the aerospace industry. Sportfive, which has headquarters in Paris and Hamburg, is EuropeÂs largest soccer marketing and media rights company.
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Honda look set to become further involved with BAR, with them either buying the team outright, or becoming a co-owner. According to reports on BBC Sport Online a deal is all but agreed.
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InfoSearch Media, Inc. (OTCBB: ISHM),  a leading  online  media  and  search marketing firm,  today  announced  that members  of  its management team, including Officers of the  Company,  have collectively  purchased  over 500,000 shares of InfoSearch  Media's  common stock in the open market.