Danone, Numico to merge in $17 bln deal
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French food group Danone  said on Monday it plans to pay 12.3 billion euros ($16.77 billion) for Dutch rival Numico , in a widely expected move after Danone agreed to sell its biscuits unit last week.
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These three companies have the urge to merge -- which deals will be the ones to work out?
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Sagem, a maker of electronic equipment, and Snecma, a French state-controlled manufacturer of aircraft engines, plan to merge to create a company valued at more than 7.2 billion euros ($9.
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The NASD and NYSE Group yesterday said they plan to merge their regulatory operations in a move designed to reduce costly duplications.
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Alitalia SpA, Italy&#39;s largest airline, reached a government-brokered agreement with its labor unions that will allow the carrier to cut about 3,700 jobs and gain funding for a plan to reorganize the company.
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French group Danone, whose LU cookies have accompanied the snacks of generations of French children, said Tuesday it was in exclusive talks with US rival Kraft Foods about the sale of its biscuit unit for 5.3 billion euros (7.2 billion dollars).
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Danone  is exclusive talks to sell its biscuit and cereal unit to the world's biggest cookie maker Kraft Foods  for 5.3 billion euros ($7.20 billion), the French food group said on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO -- Kraft Foods Inc. said Tuesday it has offered $7.2 billion in cash to acquire the cookie and cereal division of French food company Groupe Danone SA in a deal that would give America's biggest food and beverage company an even larger foothold around the globe.
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French food group Danone said Tuesday it was in exclusive talks with US rival Kraft Foods on the sale of Danone&#39;s biscuit unit for 5.3 billion euros (7.2 billion dollars).
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The London Stock Exchange   is to buy its Italian counterpart for 1.6 billion euros ($2.15  billion), a statement from the two confirmed on Saturday, the  latest step in a global consolidation of exchanges.
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The Nationwide and Portman building societies are to merge, creating a mutual body with assets of more than Â£150bn.
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French food group Danone  is in exclusive talks to sell its biscuit and cereal unit for 5.3 billion euros ($7.2 billion) in cash to Kraft Foods Inc , the world's biggest cookie maker, they said on Tuesday.
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Nokia Siemens Networks  (NSN)  said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy Britain's Apertio Ltd  for about 140 million euros ($205 million) and expects to close  the deal in the first quarter of 2008.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck MRCG.DE   unveiled a $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm   Serono SEO.VX, and Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of   Altana ALTG.DE.
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Creata joint venture con Sumi Motherson Group
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EuroZinc Mining Corp.  and  Lundin Mining Corp.  on Monday agreed to merge in a  stock deal that will create a copper and zinc producer with a  market capitalization of about $3 billion (C$3.3 billion).
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French companies Snecma and Sagem announced a planned 7 billion euro ($8.9 billion) merger on Friday, in a deal that analysts said was driven by political rather than shareholder interests.