US soft drinks giant Coca-Cola said today it planned to buy Chinese juice maker Huiyuan Juice Group in a $2.4 billion deal that would be its biggest acquisition in China.More >>
ZAO Citibank, a subsidiary of Citi, the leading global financial services company, was named Best Overseas Bank and Best Consumer Bank in Russia by Global Finance magazine in 2008.More >>
Austria's Meinl Airports International has closed its first purchase, buying the Mukhino airport in Russia's Ulan Ude, close to Lake Baikal, for $24 million, the company said on Thursday.More >>
Soyuzinform has become Armada's first acquisition financed with proceeds from its successful IPO held in July 2007. Prior to the IPO, Armada purchased PM Expert, a project management company, in June 2007.More >>
OAO Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil producer, successfully bid 7.84 billion rubles ($305.8 million) for bankrupt OAO Yukos Oil Co.'s Dutch unit in an auction that Yukos's former managers called illegitimate.More >>
The words Scottish, Newcastle and takeover were uttered in the same breath again yesterday as Britain's biggest brewer fell under the M&A spotlight.More >>
Over the past decade, the trend we've observed in the energy sector in Central and Eastern Europe and the Common-wealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) has been characterized mainly by a selected group of international utilities players (such as EDF, RWE and E.ON) buying selected power and gas assets and focusing mainly on “soon-to-become-EU members.” They succeeded in establishing a substantial position in the heart of the region, primarily buying distribution assets with a view to building a strong customer base.More >>
Merger and acquisition volume on foreign shores by companies from the world's top four emerging nations - Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) - has touched a record $54.6 billion so far in 2007, with the two Asian countries accounting for two-thirds of the total deals.More >>
While leading European banking groups have spearheaded a merger and acquisition charge into Ukraine's banking business, snapping up some of the country's largest banks in the last two years, Ukraine's largest privately-owned bank has firmly stayed its own M|A course, quietly buying banks abroad.
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