VNU in $2.55bn directories sale
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Dutch media group VNU says it has signed a final agreement to sell its world directories unit to World Directories Acquisition Corp for 2.075 billion euros ($2.
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AMSTERDAM - Dutch information and media firm VNU has sold its telephone guides division for almost EUR 2.08 billion to World Directories Acquisition, a consortium operated by Apax Partners and Cinven Limited.
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AMSTERDAM VNU, the world&#39;s largest market research group, said Monday that it would sell its telephone directories unit to two British venture capital groups for E2.
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The data storage company is selling its Stonehouse Technologies unit for $6.5 million.
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Apax Partners Worldwide LLP and Cinven Ltd. agreed to buy VNU NV&#39;s directories unit for 2.1 billion euros ($2.6 billion), betting they can repeat Apax&#39;s past success in buying and selling yellow pages assets.
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UK-BASED investment manager and life services provider HHG Plc has agreed to sell its Life Services business for an estimated $2.46 billion.
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DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- The Dutch government agreed Monday to buy the pipeline unit of the Dutch gas company Gasunie for $3.55 billion from Exxon Mobil and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group.
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AMSTERDAM -- The Dutch supermarket retailer Ahold, seeking to streamline global operations and reduce debt, said yesterday that it will sell its holdings in Spain to Permira Funds, for roughly $849 million.
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BLACK Country specialist manufacturer BST Supplies is celebrating after clinching a record, job-creating deal worth pounds 2.5 million over two years.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers held its largest sale to date in company history last week in Moerdijk, (Rotterdam), the Netherlands, earning over 51million (approx. US$68 million) in gross auction sales.
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Vivendi Universal SA, owner of the world&#39;s largest music company, plans to sell a 15 percent stake in Veolia Environnement SA to cut debt and focus on media and mobile-phone businesses.
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Worldwide external controller-based disc storage revenue totalled $3.2bn (Â£1.8bn) in the second quarter, up 5.1% from the $3.1bn recorded in the same period last year.
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Inflation rose to 2.5% in August, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
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Energy giant Shell is to sell its stake in the pipeline unit of Dutch gas firm Gasunie to the Dutch government. Both Shell and ExxonMobil are selling their stakes, with the Dutch government paying 2.78bn euros ($3.
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The German auction for 28 broadband wireless access (BWA) or Wimax licences raised a total 56 million euros (74 million dollars), the regulatory authority Bundesnetzagentur has announced.
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Indian property developer DLF is set to  raise $2.4bn through a share float, the largest on the country's market to date.
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Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by $5.17 billion in the latest week to $922.87 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.