Silver Lake Resources has a new substantial shareholder in the Blackrock Group,which holds 11.47 million shares or a 5.01%interest in the company. Blackrock had acquired 8.9 million of its shares for about USD 39.7 million between ...
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Hillshire Brands has announced that Brian Davison has joined the company from Kraft Foods as VP of corporate strategy and development. Hillshire, formerly the North American meat business of Sara Lee, said Davison began his role on 2 ...
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DNO International has announced that its long-serving Managing Director, Helge Eide (pictured), is stepping down effective 31 December 2012. “After almost 17 years at DNO International, including the past 13 years as Managing ...
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Microsoft won't have its signature mega-booth at International CES 2013 starting next week in Las Vegas,but that's not expected to lessen the trade show's impact,or largesse. Show organizers said there will be 3,200 exhibitors and they ...
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Perrigo has signed a definitive merger agreement as well as has acquired Cobrek Pharmaceuticals, an US-based drug development company, for nearly $45m on a cash free and debt free basis. The company, in May 2008, had also acquired an ...
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DJO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DJO Finance (DJOFL), has acquired Exos, a US-based medical device company, for an undisclosed sum. Exos' commercial products include a thermoformable bracing system, which is comprised of a waterproof, ...
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US-based property and casualty wholesale broker AmWINS Group has acquired Gresham & Associates, for an undisclosed sum. As part of the merger agreement, Gresham & Associates president Tony Gresham will assume the additional role as CEO, ...
PPG Industries announced that it has commenced its exchange offer related to the split-off transaction of its commodity chemicals business.The split-off transaction is in connection with the separation and merger of Eagle Spinco Inc.,a ...
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Welspun India Ltd., a part of the $ 3.5 billion Welspun Group announced that the merger scheme has come into effect. The consolidated results post merger, for FY 2012 has also been announced. The High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad by its ...
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RedPrairie is merging with fellow supply-chain software vendor JDA in a deal worth roughly $1.9 billion, the companies announced Thursday, just days after reports surfaced that JDA had put itself up for sale. The deal is expected to close ...
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Board members of the three largest industry retailer associations - the National Home Furnishings Assn., the Western Home Furnishings Assn. and the Home Furnishings Independents Assn. - have agreed to merge the ...
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PPG Industries has commenced its exchange offer related to the split-off transaction of its commodity chemicals business. The split-off transaction is in connection with the separation and merger of Eagle Spinco Inc., a wholly-owned ...
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company has formally integrated Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company and Harleysville Group into its underwriting businesses. Harleysville president and chief operating officer Michael Browne said that ...
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IDG News Service - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS Communications have signed an agreement to merge in a deal that will see MetroPCS shareholders receive US$1.5 billion in cash and 26 percent of the new company. The combined ...
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MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI(business intelligence)software platform,covering areas such as visual data-exploration and the open-source Hadoop data-processing framework,during the MicroStrategy World ...
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