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| UpdatedUnilever slumps in Europe after US food giant Kraft Heinz pulls its $US143 billion bid to take over the company, while Wall Street is closed for a holiday.
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ANZ continues the retreat back to its core Australian businesses, with the sale of its New Zealand asset finance operations to Chinese interests for $628 million.
Topics: banking, takeovers, company-news, australia, new-zealand, china
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Australian tech darling Atlassian announces it will acquire collaboration service Trello, in a deal worth $US425 million ($579 million).
Topics: takeovers, company-news, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, australia, united-states
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ANZ kicks off the new year by advancing its strategy to cut its retail presence in Asia, announcing the sale of its stake in Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank (SRCB).
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| UpdatedGaming and lottery company Tatts is set to reject a takeover offer by Pacific Consortium made earlier in December, saying it is "not superior" to the company's plans to merge with Tabcorp, which would create an entity worth $11.3 billion.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, takeovers, markets, stockmarket, australia
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The chairperson of Australian mining company Kingsgate says he will seek compensation from Thailand's military Government over its decision to shut down their gold mine.
Topics: mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, industry, takeovers, foreign-affairs, thailand, asia, australia
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A Queensland avocado farm becomes the first acquisition by a new joint venture between the Costa Group and Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management.
Topics: rural, takeovers, regional-development, small-business, company-news, fruits, fruit, kumbia-4610, childers-4660
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| UpdatedThe competition watchdog says it will not oppose private equity firm Quadrant Fund 5's proposed acquisition of Fitness First Asia Pacific, which operates around 60 gyms in Australia.
Topics: company-news, takeovers, regulation, exercise-and-fitness, consumer-protection, australia
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| UpdatedConstruction multinational Boral says it will acquire US-based building products manufacturer Headwaters in a deal worth $US2.6 billion ($3.5 billion).
Topics: company-news, building-and-construction, multinationals, takeovers, business-economics-and-finance, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedAustralia's largest black truffle producer, Hazel Hill, makes an unsolicited bid for one of its rivals in Manjimup, 300 kilometres south of Perth.
Topics: agribusiness, takeovers, manjimup-6258
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Private equity is both coming and going, with the sector accounting for 20 per cent of merger and acquisition activity last financial year, with a particular focus on health stocks.
Topics: takeovers, stockmarket, australia
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| UpdatedIn the age of the internet there is little doubt that free-to-air television is in much better shape than newspapers, but that may change.
Topics: television, takeovers, media, stockmarket, broadcasting, television-broadcasting, australia
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ANZ is selling its retail banking operations in five Asian nations to Singapore's DBS Bank, and will book a $265 million net loss on the deal.
Topics: banking, company-news, takeovers, australia, singapore
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| UpdatedBig companies now have a market share about double what it was in the early 1990s, leaving consumers worse off, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, takeovers, australia
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The last time Australian gambling giants presented a grand merger idea to the corporate handicapper - er regulator - they didn't even make it to the starting line.
Topics: company-news, takeovers, regulation, gambling, australia
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| UpdatedTwo of Australia's biggest listed gambling businesses, Tabcorp and Tatts, announce a merger to form an $11.3 billion giant controlling more than 90 per cent of Australia's totalisator betting.
Topics: takeovers, company-news, gambling, australia
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Caltex Australia confirms a bid to buy Woolworths' fuel business, a move which would give it almost 40 per cent of the fuel retail market.
Topics: company-news, takeovers, retail, oil-and-gas, australia
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Construction and engineering business CIMIC makes a $524.5 million takeover bid for engineering contractor UGL which is struggling in the mining downturn.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, takeovers, stockmarket, multinationals, australia
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| UpdatedThere's now clear interest, appetite and capacity for cross-border mega deals in online tech, as Tencent's acquisition of Supercell in June this year has shown.
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| UpdatedIndustry standards and compliance company SAI Global has agreed to a $1 billion takeover bid from Hong Kong private equity firm Baring Private Equity Asia.
Topics: company-news, takeovers, australia, hong-kong
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| UpdatedGerman pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer AG finally strikes a deal to buy out American biotech company Monsanto — but the deal, dubbed a "marriage made in hell" by Bernie Sanders, needs to clear some major regulatory hurdles.
Topics: agricultural-chemicals, pharmaceuticals, rural, chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, company-news, regulation, takeovers, australia
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| UpdatedElectronics retailer JB Hi-Fi announces an $870 million takeover of rival firm The Good Guys.
Topics: takeovers, retail, electronics, australia
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| UpdatedLiberty Media's Formula One takeover seems to leave Bernie Ecclestone in the driver's seat, but his new teammate, Murdoch lieutenant Chase Carey, may have other ideas.
Topics: formula-1, motor-sports, sport, takeovers, united-states, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedUS hardware giant Lowe's has potentially thrown a spanner into Woolworths' moves to offload its Masters hardware stores, launching legal action in the Federal Court of Australia.
Topics: company-news, takeovers, retail, courts-and-trials, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedWoolworths offers hope to staff in its failed Masters hardware stores, to close before the end of the year, saying most of them can be redeployed across its other businesses.
Topics: retail, takeovers, company-news, australia