Chemicals
3i sells KemFine to CABB
22 Jun 2011
US carbon black maker Columbian Chem now in Birla hands
22 Jun 2011
The Aditya Birla Group completed the $875 million acquisition of Atlanta-based Columbian Chemicals Company after it obtained all regulatory approvals.
DuPont acquires Danish food ingredient maker Danisco
16 May 2011
DuPont said its $6.3 billion tender offer was approved by over 92 per cent of Danisco shareholders.
SC refuses to revisit verdict in Bhopal gas disaster case
11 May 2011
Delivering the judgment for the constitution bench, Chief Justice Kapadia said that after the 1996 verdict, the accused could not be tried under more stringent provisions of the law without any basis
Aditya Birla Group acquires Kanoria Chemicals unit for Rs830 crore
16 Apr 2011
The acquisition would raise Aditya Birla Chemicals' total caustic soda capacity from 105,000 tonnes per annum to 220,000 tonnes.
Sudarshan Chemicals completes Phase 1 upgradation of Roha facility with Rs100 crore investment
05 Apr 2011
DuPont extends $6-billion offer for Danisco till 29 April
30 Mar 2011
Only 6 per cent of Danisco shareholders accepted the offer as of 29 March against the 90 per cent acceptance level required for DuPont to carry out the deal and delist Danisco.
RPG Group, Aditya Birla in bid to buy Evonik
31 Jan 2011
Birla Carbon to acquire Columbian Chemicals
31 Jan 2011
Aditya Birla Group in talks to buy Columbian Chemicals for Rs4,100 crore
21 Jan 2011
Columbian, the world’s third-largest carbon black manufacturer, has a global market share of 9 per cent of the 12.7-million tonne global carbon black capacity
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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