British army unit signs million pound record deal
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A British army regiment has signed a one million pound ($2.05 million) record deal with Universal Music, a spokesman for the Pipes and Drums of the unit, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, said on Sunday.
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New owners and a TV deal help top English clubs reach a record January spend of Â£150m on players.
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The Saudi defence ministry announced on Monday that it has signed a 4.43 billion pound (8.86 billion dollar) deal to buy 72 Eurofighter planes, in one of the largest ever British export orders.
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BAE Systems makes its latest move into the US, agreeing to buy military support services provider MTC Technologies.
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Britain's 20 biggest military procurement projects ran 1.7 billion pounds (3.2 billion dollars, 2.5 billion euros) overbudget in 2003, the National Audit Office said.
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Britain is set to announce that it is sending up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, according to media reports Friday.
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British defense firm BAE Systems has agreed to pay $600 million (333.7 million pounds) for DigitalNet Holdings, a maker of secure Pentagon computer networks, the companies say in a weekend statement.
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The British arms firm BAE has been given approval by US regulators to go ahead with a Â£2bn takeover of an American military company.
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Scottish & Newcastle, Britainâs largest brewer, agreed to a Â£7.8 billion ($15.4 billion) takeover by the European rivals Carlsberg and Heineken.
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KBR , a former unit of  Halliburton Co. , Dyncorp International Inc.  and  Fluor Corp.  were awarded parts of a U.S. Army contract  with a combined potential value of up to $150 billion to  provide services to the military in the Middle East.
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German electronics giant Siemens said that its Siemens Business Services unit had signed a 2.7-billion-euro (3.3-billion-dollar) contract to supply technology services to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Japan Tobacco Inc has said it has reached an agreement to buy British rival Gallaher Group for 2.25 trillion yen (19.1 billion dollars) including debt, in Japan's biggest ever corporate acquisition.
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TELECOMS group BT will bid this week for a Â£4bn Ministry of Defence contract to stitch together IT systems for Britain&#39;s armed forces.
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LONDON -- EMI Group PLC, home to the Beatles and Coldplay, agreed to a 2.4 billion pound ($4.7 billion) takeover by a private equity group on Monday, but the deal raised speculation of an all-out bidding war for the struggling music company.
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An "incident" has taken place at a British base near Basra, the Ministry of Defence confirms.
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Tyco International Ltd.&#39;s fire and security unit on Wednesday said it signed a $70 million contract with the British Ministry of Defense to supply respiratory protection equipment.
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Online retailer CD-Wow is ordered to pay Â£41m to British record companies after breaking a deal to stop selling imported CDs.