Hudson's Bay Company reported its results for the 13-week period ended August 3, 2013. Consistent with the first quarter of fiscal 2013, the second quarter was characterized by strong same store sales growth at Hudson's Bay and rising ...
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Biotechnology company Amgen has reached a deal to buy all outstanding shares of California-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals for $125 per share in cash. The purchase price of the transaction that is expected to be closed by the beginning of ...
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IDEXX Laboratories has acquired all the outstanding shares of Madasa do Brasil, a Brazil-based distributor of IDEXX dairy and bovine testing products, as well as other food safety testing products. Madasa do Brasil, headquartered in Sao ...
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POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
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US-based Dole Food has entered into an agreement to be taken private by the company's chairman of the board and CEO David H Murdock, in a deal valued at $1.2bn. Under the agreement, Murdock will pay $13.50 in cash for each share for all ...
Maidenform Brands, Inc., a global intimate apparel company, reported second quarter 2013 net sales of $145.4 million and earnings per share of $0.34. On July 23, 2013, Maidenform entered into a definitive agreement with Hanesbrands Inc. ...
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Cubist Pharmaceuticals has entered into two separate agreements to acquire Optimer Pharmaceuticals and Trius Therapeutics, as part of the company's Building Blocks of Growth strategy to strengthen its presence in acute care and hospital ...
Furniture Brands International said it was notified last week by the New York Stock Exchange that it had fallen below the exchange's market capitalization requirements and could be delisted. The company said it was told by the NYSE that ...
Clearwire shareholders approved Sprint Nextel's takeover of their company on Monday, ending a saga that had included years of uncertainty and finally a bidding war for the spectrum-rich wireless network operator. Sprint co-founded ...
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The Motoman Robotics Division of Yaskawa America has announced that it has acquired all outstanding shares of Agile Planet, Inc. Agile Planet is a developer of intelligent robotics software and hardware products engineered to dramatically ...
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Dutch financial services firm ING has completed the sale of approximately 7.9% direct stake in Brazil-based insurance provider Sul América to International Finance Corporation (IFC). The sale follows the agreement that ING entered ...
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has signed an agreement to purchase pharmaceutical and drug delivery company, MicroDose Therapeutx, to strengthen its respiratory franchise. The deal involves acquisition of all of MicroDose's outstanding ...
US-based Dole Food has received a proposal from David H. Murdock, the company's chairman of the board and CEO, to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock which are not already owned by him in a deal which values the company at ...
Asia Packaging Group has concluded its previously announced deal to acquire Yuanxing Package (China) for $48m. Under the terms of a share purchase agreement dated 5 November 2012, the acquisition of Yuanxing was completed through the ...
German-based Bayer has bought majority stake in Conceptus, a birth control manufacturer, and expects the purchase of the entire Californian firm for $1.1bn to close soon. According to Bayer, over 96% of the company's outstanding shares ...
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