Smiths Group to Buy Medex for $625 Million in Cash
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Smiths Group Plc, which makes insulin pumps and anthrax-detection systems for the US Postal Service, agreed to buy Medex Inc. for $625 million in cash to expand its medical-equipment division.
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Nestle , the world's largest food group, is buying the medical nutrition business of Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG  for $2.525 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
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U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group said on Tuesday it would buy Hilton Hotels Corp. for about $26 billion cash.
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Oslo/Stockholm - Norwegian financial services group Storebrand said Monday it has inked a deal to buy life insurance and pensions provider SPP from Swedish banking group Handelsbanken. via Earth Times
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LONDON (AFX) - Smiths Group PLC, the UK aerospace-to-medical-products maker, is in advanced talks to buy US healthcare group Medex for close to 1 bln usd (517 mln stg) the Sunday Telegraph reported without citing its source.
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Transatlantic exchange NYSE Euronext   said on Thursday it agreed to acquire the American Stock Exchange (Amex) for $260 million in stock to boost its options business, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and cash products.
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Real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith  on Tuesday said it agreed to be acquired by Tishman Speyer and investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  for $22.2 billion, reflecting a strong, lingering appetite for real estate by private investors.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will buy Guidant Corp. (GDT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for $23.9 billion in cash and stock, giving the health-care products
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Sonic Healthcare Ltd., Australiaâs top pathology group, said Friday it had agreed to buy Sunrise Medical Laboratories.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced last night that will buy medical-device maker Guidant for $23.9 billion in cash and stock. The deal, approved by both boards but subject to regulator approval, is one of the largest
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Priceline has been sold to Australian Pharmaceutical Industries for $112 million in cash and shares just six months after the health and beauty care chain was bought by local managers from its South African parent.
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ATLANTA -- Walgreen Co. , the largest US drugstore chain, agreed to buy Option Care Inc. for $673 million to gain 100 specialty pharmacies.
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Swiss-based banking giant UBS AG has agreed to buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s capital markets unit for &#36;265 million in cash, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Dutch chemical distributor Univar NV  said on Monday it is buying U.S. chemicals distributor Chemcentral Corp. for $600 million in cash, including assumed debt, to expand its U.S. operations.
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Massachusetts is about to lose another corporate headquarters -- but not many jobs. In a $1.5 billion deal made public yesterday, Wakefield's PolyMedica Corp. , a mail-order company that sells drugs and supplies to diabetes patients, agreed to sell itself to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the country's biggest manager of drug benefits.
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Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  said on Monday that it will acquire discount retailer Dollar General Corp.  for $22 a share in cash, or about $6.9 billion.
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Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  said on Monday that it would acquire discount retailer Dollar General Corp.  for $22 a share in cash.