Canada's Weston family said Wednesday that it will buy Boots for $8.9 billion inclusive of debt, forcing the British health and beauty retailer to change hands for the second time in just over a year.
Canada's Weston family said Wednesday that it will buy Boots for $8.9 billion inclusive of debt, forcing the British health and beauty retailer to change hands for the second time in just over a year.
The Competition and Markets Authority said Wednesday it has temporarily blocked BT from combining its operations with TalkTalk's during its £400 million ($529 million) rescue deal for the smaller broadband provider while it investigates the deal.
Spanish miner Abenójar Tungsten SA said Wednesday that it plans to float on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in the latest sign of an end-of-year IPO revival.
The Property Franchise Group, a real estate franchisor, said Wednesday that it has acquired a 25% equity stake in specialist chat platform Enteka AI for £900,000 ($1.2 million) in a move to improve efficiency across its network.
Sweden-based construction company NCC said Wednesday it has agreed to offload its industry division to two building materials companies for 8.2 billion Swedish kronor ($819 million), in order to focus on its contracting business.
Almost half of the defined benefit pension plans polled in a new study intend to transfer their liabilities to an insurer within the next decade, according to a report by a professional body and an asset manager.
Britain's antitrust watchdog on Wednesday said it would launch an investigation into Healthcare Ireland's completed acquisition of care home business Hutchinson.
The Federal Trade Commission has granted an early termination for its review of McCormick & Co.'s planned $44.8 billion acquisition of most of the global food business of its rival Unilever PLC.
A&O Shearman said Wednesday that it has recruited two partners and the rest of their secondaries team from Stephenson Harwood to help drive growth of the business in London.
