GRAHAM PACKAGING TO BUY OWENS-ILLINOIS UNIT
Date: 29 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Graham Packaging Co, unit of Blackstone Group, acquires plastic container business of Owens-Illinois Inc for about $1.2 billion (S)
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Le 28 juillet 2004 était un mercredi sous le signe astral du ♌. C'était le 209ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était George W. Bush.
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28th of July 2004 News
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COOPER TO BUY OCULAR SCIENCES FOR $1.2 BILLION
Date: 29 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cooper Companies acquires Ocular Sciences Inc for about $1.2 billion to become world's third-largest maker of contact lenses (S)
SCHWAB CUTS 186 WORKERS AND WILL CLOSE OFFICES
Date: 29 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Charles Schwab Corp lays off 186 employees and will close 53 branch offices as it moves to cut as much as $200 million in costs to deal with decline in trading (S)
SBC TO SELL STAKE IN DIRECTORY UNIT TO DONNELLEY
Date: 29 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SBC Communications Inc to sell its stake in yellow-pages business in Illinois and northwest Indiana to R H Donnelley Corp for $1.45 billion (S)
STELLICAN BUYS INDIAN MOTORCYCLE; WILL REVIVE PRODUCTION
Date: 28 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stellican Ltd, British buyout firm, buys Indian Motorcycle Corp, and will resume motorcycle production that was halted in 2003 (S)
JOHNSON & JOHNSON TO BUILD $650 MILLION PLANT IN IRELAND
Date: 28 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Johnson & Johnson will build a $650 million plant in Ireland to make drug Remicade (S)
TATE & LYLE PAYS $100 MILLION TO SETTLE SWEETENER LAWSUIT
Date: 29 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tate & Lyle pays $100 million to settle lawsuit over sweeteners; is last to settle civil class-action suit filed in 1985 on behalf of more than 2,000 companies, alleging its A E Staley Manufacturing Co unit conspired to fix prices of high-fructose corn syrup (S)
3 Indicted on Charges of Insider Trading
Date: 29 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Former Standard & Poor's analyst Rick A Marano, his brother William and friend-former business partner Carl Loizzi are indicted on charges of trading on confidential information about coming mergers, reaping hundreds of thousands of dollars (S)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 28 July 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Jordanian Firm Accedes To Hostage-Takers in Iraq A Jordanian company said it would comply with the demands of the kidnappers of two of its employees in Iraq and stop its operations there. At least a dozen people have been kidnapped in Iraq since the Philippines completed withdrawing its 51 troops to spare the life of a truck driver who had been taken hostage. A3
Parmalat Settles With S.E.C. on Accusations of Bond Sale Fraud
Date: 29 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Parmalat reaches agreement with Securities and Exchange Commission over accusations that it cheated US investors when it sold them more than $1 billion in bonds; will not pay fine; agrees to put in effect internal governance reforms to settle civil fraud suit filed by SEC in December; neither admits nor denies any wrongdoing (M)