Perrigo buys Israelâs Agis for $818 million
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Perrigo Co., the US pharmaceutical manufacturer, said Monday it agreed to buy Israel-based Agis Industries for $818 million. Under the terms, shareholders for Agis will get 0.8011 shares of Perrigo stock and
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Cisco Systems Inc is to buy Perfigo Inc for $74 million, adding an endpoint security policy enforcement system aimed at small and medium sized organizations to the developing portfolio of products under its Network Admission Control program.
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Mexican Cemex, being the third largest cement maker in the world, agreed to buy its British competitor - RMC Group - for $5.8 billion, as well as their debts in order to expand their activity on the building materials market of the USA and Europe.
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Eleven private investors, including a rival carrier, a private equity fund in the United States and an Italian industrialist are interested in buying the struggling Italian airline Alitalia, the economy ministry said. AP Holding, led by the chairman of Air One, Carlo Toto; the Texas Pacific Group; and the private equity fund Management and Capitali, which is operated by Carlo De Benedetti, are among those having expressed interest in Alitalia, the ministry said. The Italian government holds 49.9 percent of the airline and is seeking to sell at least 30.1 percent. The ministry said that others interested in Alitalia included a private equity fund, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers; an Italian banking group, UniCredit; and an Italian investor, Paolo Alazraki.
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San Miguel, the largest food and beverage maker in the Philippines, said Thursday that it had agreed to buy National Foods, Australia&#39;s biggest dairy company, for 1.78 billion Australian dollars, or $1.4 billion, raising the prospect of a bidding war with
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Dutch retailer Ahold (AHLN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) has sold its network of almost 600 Spanish retail stores to private equity group Permira in a deal valued
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The networking gear maker buys privately held network security software developer Perfigo.
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Dutch retailer Ahold has sold its network of about 600 Spanish retail stores to private equity group Permira. The two parties valued the deal at 685m euros ($850m; Â£472m).
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Energy transport company buys Kaneb Services and Kaneb Pipe Line as it also lifts dividend. NEW YORK  - Valero LP, an owner and operator of energy pipeline and storage facilities, agreed to buy Kaneb
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International Business Machines Corp   is in advanced talks to buy Israeli start-up XIV  Information Systems for $300 million to $350 million, financial  daily Globes reported on Monday.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit agreed to buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion ($3.9 billion) on Thursday, the nation's third-largest property trust takeover.
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The electronic-payment processor agreed to buy a rival, the eFunds Corporation, for about $1.8 billion to bolster its debit card business.
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Avaya was near a deal on Sunday night to sell itself to Silver Lake Partners and the Texas Pacific Group for more than $8 billion.
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Networking leader buys Protego Networks, which makes a line of security-monitoring and threat-management appliances. By Paul Travis.
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MILAN (Dow Jones)--Australian-based media company News Corp. (NWS) Tuesday said it paid EUR88 million to buy Telecom Italia SpA&#39;s (TI) 19.
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IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV&#39;s main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components.Nextra&#39;s self-healing, self-tuning, and dynamic scaling capabilities will give IBM new technology to address the growing requirement for high-performance storage for digital archives, digital media, and Web 2.0 applications, IBM said.Around 4 petabytes (4 million gigabytes) of Nextra storage are already in service, XIV said.XIV employees will join IBM&#39;s system storage business unit, the companies said. Moshe Yanai, chairman of XIV, previously worked at EMC.The companies would not put a price on the deal, but reports in the Israeli financial press earlier this week valued it at $300 million to $350 million.This is the latest in a line of storage-related acquisitions for IBM, which recently&#160;bought Softek,&#160;FileNet,&#160;and NovusCG to beef up its storage offering.
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Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical  Industries Ltd. has agreed to buy Pfizer Inc.'s Italian generic  drug marketing company and is hungry for more acquisitions, the  drugmaker said on Tuesday.