ENDO PHARMACEUTICALS AGREES TO ACQUIRE ALGOS
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings, which New York investment firm Kelso & Co owns majority stake, agrees to buy Algos Pharmaceutical Corp; financial terms undisclosed (S)
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CONTINENTAL AIRLINES INCREASING STOCK REPURCHASE
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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Continental Airlines will increase its stock repurchase by $400 million, to $1.2 billion, because of its gain from sale of stake in Amadeus reservations system (S)
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CHESAPEAKE IS ACQUIRING 14.9% STAKE IN SHOREWOOD
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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Chesapeake Corp acquires 14.9 percent stake in Shorewood Packaging Corp for $70.7 million, part of effort to acquire Shorewood through $740 million hostile takeover; Chesapeake plans to buy about 4.1 million Shorewood shares from Ariel Capital Management Inc for $17.25 a share (S)
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COLUMBIA/HCA REPURCHASING $1 BILLION IN STOCK
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp will repurchase up to $1 billion of its shares as it works to settle federal fraud charges that have held down its stock price (S)
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G.E. MAKES DEAL TO BUY MECON, A SOFTWARE MAKER
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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General Electric Co acquires Mecon Inc for about $81.2 million in stock (S)
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COX BROADCASTING TO BUY SAN FRANCISCO TV STATION
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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Cox Broadcasting Inc acquires independent station KICU-TV, which broadcasts in the San Francisco Bay area; terms of agreement with KICU Inc are not disclosed (S)
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ALTAVISTA IS BUYING RAGING BULL, FINANCIAL WEB SITE
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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AltaVista Co, Internet search service that is controlled by CMGI Inc, will acquire Web site Raging Bull; financial terms undisclosed (S)
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3M BUYS POLAROID'S ANTI-GLARE SCREEN BUSINESS
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co acquires Polaroid Corp's anti-glare computer-filter business; terms undisclosed (S)
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EUROPEAN RETAILING DEAL
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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Dixons Group, Britain's number 1 appliance retailer, agrees to pay 160 Norwegian kroner a share in cash for Elkjop of Norway to become Europe's biggest electric-goods company; offer is for 41 percent of Elkjop that it does not already own, and values company at $712 million; graph (S)
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JAPANESE CHIP VENTURE
Date: 30 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
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NEC Corp and Hitachi Ltd agree to form joint venture to cut costs and accelerate process of developing future generations of computer memory chips; venture, NEC-Hitachi Memory Inc, will start by year-end with aim of developing 256-megabit and 512-megabit dynamic random-access chips; venture plans to sell chips by end of March 2002 (S)
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