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Charterhouse Capital buys education-software company Skillsoft for more than $2 bn
15 Mar 2014
The deal comes a few days after buyout firm Hellman & Friedman struck a deal to buy Renaissance Learning from Permira in a $1.1- billion deal
SC refuses to clear tax roadblock in Nokia-Microsoft deal
15 Mar 2014
As a result of the verdict, Nokia India will have to agree to an open-ended guarantee that the company would meet any future tax claims relating to the dispute before it can transfer Indian assets to Microsoft
Men's Wearhouse finally seals $1.8-bn deal to acquire Jos A Bank
14 Mar 2014
The transaction is one of those rare deals where Jos A Bank initially tabled a hostile bid for its larger rival, but ended up being acquired by Men's Wearhouse
Tilaknagar Industries buys out IFB Agro’s spirits business
13 Mar 2014
The acquisition will add brands like Leonov, Russki (vodka), Goldcup, Benjamin (brandy), Jubilation, Baluba (rum) and 3 Cheers (whisky) to Tilaknagar Industries’ expanding sprits portfolio
EBay Inc rejects Icahn’s nominees to its board
11 Mar 2014
GSK spends $1.05 bn to raise stake in Indian arm
11 Mar 2014
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) yesterday said that it has paid £625 million ($1.05 billion) to increase its stake in its Indian subsidiary GSK Pharmaceuticals to 75 per cent
Banana suppliers Chiquita and Fyffes to merge in $1.07 bn deal
11 Mar 2014
The new company, to be called ChiquitaFyffes, would hold 14 per cent of the $7-billion global banana market, and have annual revenue of $4.6 billion.
German construction giant Hochtief to raise stake in Australia’s Leighton
10 Mar 2014
Sydney-based Leighton Holdings is the parent company of the Leighton Group, one of the world's leading construction contractors and the world's largest contract miner
Unilever makes decade's biggest investment in Chinese water purifier maker Qinyuan
10 Mar 2014
Unilever, whose brands include Dove, Sunsilk, Axe and Lipton, said that its Pureit purifiers and Qinyuan’s product range offer different and complementary performance and price points and will enable the combined business to offer a complete range of products
IOC to buy 10% in Petronas’s Canadian shale-gas assets, LNG project for $900 mn
08 Mar 2014
Under the deal, IOC will get 1.2 million tonnes of LNG per annum, or 10 per cent of the Pacific Northwest LNG project's production, for a minimum period of 20 years
Gates, Nadella opposed Nokia acquisition: report
07 Mar 2014
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