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Anheuser-Busch InBev buys back S Korea's Oriental Brewery for $5.8 bn
20 Jan 2014
AB InBev, the world's biggest brewer, will buy back South Korea's Oriental Brewery that it sold in 2008 to finance the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch
Shell to sell stakes in two Australian projects to Kuwait for $1.14 bn
20 Jan 2014
Shell is under pressure from investors to sell non-core assets to focus on more profitable ventures and improve the company's financials
Tesco eyeing Mothercare: reports
20 Jan 2014
Aurobindo Pharma to acquire Actavis’s European operations
18 Jan 2014
Aurobindo Pharma will acquire the generics commercial operations of Actavis Plc in seven markets across Western Europe
Former Apple and Bang & Olufsen management buy German television maker Loewe
18 Jan 2014
Investors includng the family business owners of Loewe, former management from Apple and Bang & Olufsen are buying the high end TV maker Loewe
Former Apple and Bang & Olufsen management buy German television maker Loewe
18 Jan 2014
Investors includng the family business owners of Loewe, former management from Apple and Bang & Olufsen are buying the high end TV maker Loewe
Bharti Airtel in talks to buy out Loop Mobile
17 Jan 2014
Bharti Airtel is in talks to buy out Mumbai-based Loop Mobile in a deal that would add about 3 million customers to Bharti's Mumbai customer portfolio
J&J to sell Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit to Carlyle for $4.15 bn
17 Jan 2014
US healthcare major Johnson & Johnson (J&J) yesterday agreed to sell its Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) unit to private equity firm Carlyle Group for $4.15 billion.
IOC withdraws bid for Bengal’s ailing Haldia Petrochem
16 Jan 2014
IndianOil has informed the state government led by Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress that it has decided not to go ahead with the deal to buy the government’s 40-per cent stake in Haldia Petrochemicals
Toshiba to acquire 60% stake in UK nuclear venture NuGeneration
15 Jan 2014
With Toshiba in command, NuGeneration Ltd will move ahead with plans to build three nuclear reactors 400 km north-west of London
Shell to sell some North Sea oilfields to raise under divestment programme
15 Jan 2014
Despite its divestments Shell still expects to hit its target of $130 billion in capital expenditure between 2012 and 2015
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