Maple Leaf Foods Inc. today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Adjusted Operating Earnings(1)(2)(3) for the fourth quarter was a loss of $21.7 million compared to Adjusted ...
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Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYSE: PAA) ("PAA") and PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P. (NYSE: PNG) ("PNG") today jointly announced the completion of the merger of PNG with a wholly-owned subsidiary of PAA, with PNG surviving the merger as ...
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ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA) announced today that its acquisition of Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. (Eastern) was completed effective January 1, 2014. Eastern's shareholders overwhelmingly approved the transaction at a special ...
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Mako Surgical, a medical device company, has announced that the company’s stockholders voted at a special meeting of stockholders held on 13 December 2013 to approve the adoption of the agreement and plan of merger providing for the ...
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Manitoulin Group's announcement tonight that it will be purchasing all shares in major LTL player Vitran may be its biggest move of the year, but it's certainly not the first. Manitoulin, which has over 3,000 pieces of equipment and more ...
PharmAthene, a biodefense company, announced that it has terminated its definitive merger agreement with US-based Theraclone Sciences with consent from Theraclone. The agreement provided for the merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
Alvopetro Inc. ("Alvopetro" or the "Company") announces that it has closed a transaction with Petrominerales Ltd. ("Petrominerales") to sell its 25 percent interest in 10 exploration blocks located in the Reconcavo Basin and three marginal ...
Petrobras, in compliance with the provision set forth in CVM Instruction 358/02, announces that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, has approved the following merger proposals, which will be voted by shareholders in a Special ...
Ukraine is going to increase its 2013 quota for imports of metallurgical coke up to 300,000 mt from the current 210,000 mt, and also increase the 2013 quota for coking coal by 1 million mt, the press service of Ukraine's First Deputy Prime ...
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Dole Food Company, Inc. today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), a leading proxy advisory firm, issued its report recommending that Dole shareholders support its previously announced merger agreement with ...
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rue21, inc., a leading specialty apparel retailer of girls and guys apparel and accessories, and Apax Partners, a global private equity firm, announced the completion of the acquisition of rue21 by funds advised by Apax Partners for $42.00 ...
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Shuanghui International has acquired a US pork processor Smithfield Foods in an all-cash deal valued at $7.1bn, which includes the assumption of net debt. The deal received approval from Smithfield's shareholders at a special meeting held ...
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Smithfield Foods announced that its shareholders have voted in favor of proposed merger with China's Shuanghui International for $4.7bn, in a development which will be the largest ever takeover of a US company by a Chinese firm. At a ...
Shuanghui International, a Chinese food giant, is hopeful of closing the $4.7bn acquisition of American pork producer Smithfield Foods by 26 September 2013, following the approvals from the latter's stakeholders. The American producer has ...
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Michael Dell has won the battle to take the company he founded in 1984 private after shareholders voted in favour of the deal on the table from Michael Dell and private equity company Silver Lake. It means that the company will be taken ...
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