M&A

Nestlé to acquire Pfizer’s nutrition business for $11.85 billion

23 Apr 2012

Vodafone acquires CWW for £1.04 billion

23 Apr 2012

Telecom giant Vodafone today said it had clinched a deal for the acquisition of British firm Cable and Wireless Worldwide (CWW) for about £1.04 billion

China's Bright Food denies interst in British cereal maker Weetabix

23 Apr 2012

KCI to acquire Switzerland based APAG Group

23 Apr 2012

UK’s CWW PLC to accept Vodafone bid

23 Apr 2012

Vodafone approached C&W Worldwide, owner of the largest fibre-optic network in the UK, in early February beating competition from Tata Communications

Japanese shareholders approve new Olympus board

21 Apr 2012

Aspen to buy GSK’s international OTC brands

20 Apr 2012

Icahn wins $2.26-bn takeover battle with CVR Energy board

20 Apr 2012

CVR Energy Inc yesterday paved the way for billionaire-activist investor Carl Icahn to proceed with his $2.26-billion takeover offer by withdrawing its poison pill defence

ThyssenKrupp nears sale of three automotive sector units: report

20 Apr 2012

GlaxoSmithKline’s $2.6-bn bid rejected by Human Genome Sciences

19 Apr 2012

China’s XCMG buys majority stake in Germany’s Schwing GmbH

19 Apr 2012

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to buy 20 % of TVS Logistics Services for Rs250 crore

19 Apr 2012

Essar Group plans to sell BPO firm Aegis

19 Apr 2012

Olympus India acquires shares worth Rs105.76 crore of Karur Vysya Bank

19 Apr 2012

Cameron International to buy TTS Energy division for $270 mn

18 Apr 2012

SXC Health Solutions to buy Catalyst Health Solutions for $4.4 bn

18 Apr 2012

Couche-Tard to buy Norway's Statoil Fuel and Retail business for $2.77 bn

18 Apr 2012

Nestle close to buying Pfizer’s infant nutrition business for $9 billion

18 Apr 2012

Pfizer acquired the infant-nutrition division in its $68-billion takeover of Wyeth in 2009, and since early July 2011, has been planning to divst it and focus on its core biopharmaceutical products

IBM to acquire Canadian analytics software provider Varicent Software

18 Apr 2012

Plains All American Pipeline withdraws $1 billion offer for SemGroup

18 Apr 2012

GVK eyes part stake sale in Australia’s Hancock coal to fund development

18 Apr 2012

FedEx in talks to buy French express-transportation company Tatex SAS

18 Apr 2012

Anil Agarwal’s son Agnivesh buys controlling stake in Primex Healthcare

17 Apr 2012

Toshiba Corp unit to buy IBM’s Retail Store Solutions for $850 mn

17 Apr 2012

Anheuser Busch InBev buys 51 % of Dominican brewer CND for $1.237 bn

17 Apr 2012

Anheuser Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, will buy a 51-per cent stake in Dominican brewer Cervecería Nacional Dominicana SA from two sellers for $1.237 billion