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Coke Takes Swig of Glac&eacute;au
Coke Takes Swig of Glacéau
May 25, 2007 9:12 AM CDT

Coke Takes Swig of Glacéau

Soft drink giant tries to boost its offerings with $4.1B VitaminWater buy

(Newser) - Coca-Cola is adding some fizz to its line of non-soda offerings, acquiring the maker of Glacéau VitaminWater today in its biggest purchase ever. The $4.1 billion purchase of Energy Brands will give Coke a strong foothold in the market for non-carbonated products and help it close the gap...

Sallie Mae Chief Quits
Sallie Mae
Chief Quits
May 23, 2007 5:52 AM CDT

Sallie Mae Chief Quits

Equity firm pressured loan giant CEO to step down, ease buyout

(Newser) - The CEO of student loan giant Sallie Mae resigned unexpectedly yesterday in the midst of a $25 billion buyout by a private equity firm. The Wall Street Journal reports that Thomas J. Fitzpatrick was pressured out to stave off Congressional criticism of the buyout by J.C. Flowers and Co,...

Alcan Steels Itself Against Alcoa Bid

Canadian aluminum producer rejects US rival, says it will seek other offers

(Newser) - Canadian aluminum maker Alcan has rejected the $24.7-billion bid from rival Alcoa that would have been the biggest takeover in the metals industry, and signalled its intention to look elsewhere. Alcoa’s  $74.60-per-share bid was inadequate, Alcan’s CEO said today, reigniting rumors that both companies may be...

Burgeoning Saudi Firm Snags GE Plastics

$11.6B deal is Gulf region's biggest ever

(Newser) - A Saudi chemical company will take over General Electric's plastics division in a deal worth $11.6 billion, the companies said today. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., or Sabic, beat out Dutch-owned Basell for GE Plastics, which was put up for sale in January. The purchase, the largest ever by a...

Rome Deal Creates World's 5th-Largest Bank

(Newser) - Italian lenders UniCredit and Capitalia yesterday inked a $29.7 billion deal to create a bank with the world's fifth (and Europe's second) largest market cap. The hurried Rome merger indicates, according to the Wall Street Journal, a rush to consolidate Europe's banking sector, but also the persistent challenges to...

XM Fans Irate at Shock Jock Suspension

Opie & Anthony, kicked off airwaves, now in trouble on satellite

(Newser) - Fans of "The Opie & Anthony Show" cancelled their satellite radio subscriptions by the hundreds after XM slapped the shock-jock duo with a 30-day suspension earlier this week. Subscribers are accusing the station—which promises uncensored content—of pandering to the FCC so they won't block a pending merger...

Blackstone Makes $7.8B Deal for Alliance

Private equity continues to pour into financial processing

(Newser) - Blackstone has snapped up credit card services provider Alliance Data for $7.8 billion, joining a surge of private equity into dull but profitable back-office firms. The 30% above-market offer for Alliance, which also runs a data processing unit, is the latest in a wave of takeovers in the financial-processing...

Reuters, Thomson Seal the Deal
Reuters, Thomson Seal the Deal
May 15, 2007 8:25 AM CDT

Reuters, Thomson Seal the Deal

(Newser) - Reuters and Thomson have settled on the terms of the $17.24 billion merger announced last week, sounding the starting bell for a longer-than-usual regulatory review, the Journal reports. Reuters head Tom Glocer will become CEO of the new Thomson-Reuters, which combines the second- and third-largest providers of financial data...

KKR Dominates in '07 Buyouts
KKR Dominates in '07 Buyouts
May 14, 2007 1:18 PM CDT

KKR Dominates in '07 Buyouts

With 44% of this year's private equity deals, is firm spending too much too fast?

(Newser) - Private equity powerhouse KKR has been on a monumental spending spree this year, closing more than $120 billion in deals to date in 2007—more than twice its closest rival. Now the Financial Times wonders whether the veteran PE firm it may be hitting the market too forcefully.

Thomson Confirms Merger Deal
Thomson
Confirms
Merger Deal
May 9, 2007 11:00 AM CDT

Thomson Confirms Merger Deal

Proposed purchase of Reuters puts Bloomberg on notice

(Newser) - Financial data giants Reuters and Thomson have confirmed that a merger is in the works. Should the deal go through, the company will control 34 percent of the financial data market, to current leader Bloomberg's 33 percent. Reuters CEO Tom Glocer would head the new Thomson-Reuters, which would remain under...

Aluminum Giant Makes Play for Rival

Alcoa's $26.9 hostile takeover bid for Alcan comes after years of merger talks

(Newser) - Aluminum titan Alcoa is hoping to get its largest rival, Alcan, to melt under a hostile takeover bid, after merger talks between the two companies collapsed. Alcoa, the world's largest aluminum company, has offered $26.9 billion for its Canadian competitor in an effort to beat out the emerging market...

Reuters Takeover Rumors Fly
Reuters Takeover Rumors Fly
May 5, 2007 8:00 AM CDT

Reuters Takeover Rumors Fly

(Newser) - Reuters is being wooed by a buyer, though the British information service is steadfastly mum on its suitor's identity. The WSJ predicts one of two outcomes: an intra-industry move from Canadian publishing powerhouse Thomson, or a swoop in by private equity, aimed at profiting off the company's steady cash flow.

Microsoft Opens Window To Yahoo! Deal

(Newser) - Could a Microsoft-Yahoo! merger be in the works? The New York Post reports that Microsoft has quietly approached the Internet giant about opening merger negotiations, after informal talks fell apart several months ago. Insiders say Microsoft is looking to fight back against Google after the search-engine leader bested it in...

Banker Busted For Insider Trading
Banker Busted
For Insider Trading
May 3, 2007 10:32 PM CDT

Banker Busted For Insider Trading

Credit Suisse hire charged with passing tips to Pakistani banker

(Newser) - Federal prosecutors and the SEC are charging a Credit Suisse banker with relaying insider information to an unnamed Pakistani banker who made more than $7 million on illegal trades. Hafiz Nasseem, who started at the bulge-bracket bank last year, is said to have immediately started sharing tips on upcoming deals—...

Euro Bank Giants to Merge
Euro Bank Giants to Merge
Apr 23, 2007 9:23 AM CDT

Euro Bank Giants to Merge

RBS, regulators may rain on Barclays-AMB AMRO parade

(Newser) - Britain's Barclays Bank and Dutch bank ABN Amro have agreed to merge, creating one of the world's largest banks. The $90 billion deal is far from a sure thing, however—it requires approval by shareholders and regulators, and a group led by Barclays' archrival, the Royal Bank of Scotland, has...

Nasdaq Options Philly Mart
Nasdaq Options Philly Mart
Apr 11, 2007 3:59 PM CDT

Nasdaq Options Philly Mart

Eyes exchanges options business

(Newser) - The tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange is looking to expand into the options-trading market, and it's in talks with the Philadelphia Stock Exchange about a possible merger. Nasdaq's bid to buy the third-largest options trading exchange, valued at up to $300 million, comes as a number of bigger exchanges are on the...

Satellite Sisters
Satellite Sisters
Mar 18, 2007 8:44 PM CDT

Satellite Sisters

XM and Sirius may have unlikely rescuers from the Chicago School of Economics

(Newser) - Jim Surowiecki describes how the “Chicago School” of economists revolutionized anti-trust thinking in the 1970s. By arguing that it is not the number of competitors but rather their strength that mattered, these economists posited that some mergers stimulate competition.

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