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JAB Holding in pact to buy US bakery chain Panera Bread for $7.2 bn
06 Apr 2017
Panera Bread is a bakery-café fast casual restaurant chain with operations in the US and Canada, where it employs over 100,000 people and generates annual revenues of $5 billion
Snapdeal reported on the verge of being sold to Flipkart
06 Apr 2017
Most reports say that the country's third-largest online shopping platform Snapdeal would be sold to Flipkart, but Paytm's name has also come up as a potential buyer – in any case the valuation is likely to be a fraction of what it was last year
US regulator grants conditional approval to $43-bn ChemChina-Syngenta merger
05 Apr 2017
The US federal regulator yesterday approved the $43-billion merger between State-owned China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) and Switzerland's Syngenta AG on condition that it divest three products
SNC-Lavalin tables $2.6-bn buyout offer for British engineering and consultancy firm WS Atkins
03 Apr 2017
Essar sells Aegis to Capital Square Partners
03 Apr 2017
BP sells North Sea Pipeline System to Ineos
03 Apr 2017
Ineos, run by British businessman Jim Ratcliffe, is currently engaged in a $600-million project to bring Shale Gas Ethane from the US to its petrochemical plants in Scotland and Norway
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