Wednesday, January 04, 2006

2005 notable mergers by sector                         (Warning: not all are done deals yet) Agribusiness Monsanto buys Swiss-based Seminis, an important seed company. Banking and financial MetLife buys Travelers Life Insurance from Citigroup. Italy's Unicredito merges with Germany's HVB. Bank of America buys MBNA. HSBC buys US-based Metris. E-Trade buys BrownCo. General Electric sells insurance holdings to Swiss Re. Axalto and Gemplus merge. Commerzbank buys Eurohypo. Austria's Erste Bank buys #1 Romanian bank. Beverages Pernod Ricard buys Allied Domecq. Australia's Foster's Group buys Australian winemaker Southcorp. SABMiller buys Columbian brewer Bavaria. UK's Punch Taverns buys Spirit Group. Communications Intelsat buys PanAmSat. Computers Adobe buys Macromedia. Sun Microsystems buys StorageTek. eBay buys Skype. Oracle buys Siebel. UK's Logica buys France's Unilog. Cisco buys Scientific Atlanta. Seagate buys Maxtor. Consumer products Procter & Gamble buys Gillette. A.S. Watson, a division of Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, buys French perfumer Marionnaud. Mohawk the carpetmaker buys flooring giant Unilin. Adidas buys Reebok. Whirlpool buys Maytag. Defense UK-based BAE buys US-based UDI. L-3 buys Titan. DRS buys Engineered Support Systems. Energy ChevronTexaco buys Unocal. Duke Energy buys Cinergy. E.On buys Caledonia. Gazprom acquires Sibneft. Occidental Petroleum buys Vintage Petroleum. China's CNPC buys PetroKazakhstan. Canada's Talisman Energy buys UK's Paladin Resources. Japan's Inpex buys Teikoku. ConocoPhillips buys Burlington Resources. Florida Power and Light acquires Constellation Energy. Food Chiquita buys Salad Express. Industry and resources China's Anshan Steel buys China's Benxi Steel. French cement maker Lafarge to buy China's Shui On. Mittal Steel buys Ukraine's Kryvorizhstal. Koch Industries buys Georgia-Pacific. Saint Gobain buys BPB. Media and entertainment US-based newspaper Lee Enterprises buys the Pulitzer Group of newspapers. Movie chain Lows buys AMC. Comcast and Time-Warner Cable divide up Adelphia. Liberty Global buys Swiss Cablecom Holdings. NTL buys Telewest Global. Viacom (Paramount) buys Dream Works. Pharmaceuticals and Health Novartis buys Hextal and Eon Labs. Novartis buys Chiron. Japan's Sanjkyo buys Japan-based Daiichi. Eyecare-products company AMO buys Visz. United Healthcare buys PacificCare. Israeli drug firm Teva buys US-based Ivax. Glaxo buys Canada's ID Biomedical. WellPoint buys WellChoice. Allergan buys Inamed. Retail Federated Department Stores buys May. Boots merges with Alliance UniChem. Telephony SBC buys AT & T. Verizon buys MCI. US's Alltel buys US's Western Wireless Alltel buys Midwest Wireless. France Telecom buys Spain's Amena. Deutsche Telekom buys Austria's Tele.ring. C&W buys Energis. Ericsson buys UK's Marconi. Spain's Telefonica buys UK's O2. Sweden's Telenor Buys Vodafone's Swedish operations. Vodafone buys Turkey's Telesim. Transport Yellow Roadway buys USF. UPS buys trucker Overnite. US Airways merges with Air West. Deutsche Post to buy UK logistics frim Exel. Dubai Ports buys Britain's P&O. Travel Cendant buys Wyndham hotel brand. Hilton Hotels buys Hilton Group. Busted deals and split-ups Danish Arla Foods and Dutch Campina, dairy producers, called off their proposed deal. VNU's buyout of IMS Health falls through. Viacom splits in two. Albertson's sell-off fails. 8:43:34 PM

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