Manufacturing and industry
Barrick Gold buys Placer Dome
Big Five gasoline squeeze
Coating industry
Electric utility mergers reday
European defense mergers looming
Flavor and fragrance oligopoly
General Electric and the security industry
General Electric buys Vetco Gray
General Electric buys Smiths Industries
General Electric sells plastics business to Sabic
International Paper sells some manufacturing assets
International Paper sells timberlands
Koch Industries buys Georgia Pacific
International Power PLC acquisition
Linde buys BOC Group to build gas empire
Oil equipment merger
United Technologies buys security company IESG