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It's Rovio's second acquisition in the last 12 months and will support the company's «larger expansion plan.»

UK - based consumer products company PZ Cussons, known for Imperial Leather and Morning Fresh, is emerging as a key player in the Australian food industry after making its second acquisition in just over a year.

Brisbane - based law firm Shine Corporate has made its second acquisition in Western Australia, paying $ 13.3 million for personal injury specialist Bradley Bayly Legal, after paying a higher price last year for Stephen Browne Personal Injury Lawyers.

Not exact matches

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

Chinese direct investment in the European Union jumped by 77 per cent last year to more than 35 billion euros (US$ 38 billion), compared with 2015, while EU acquisitions in China fell for the second consecutive year, according to the Rhodium Group.

Two months later, Google purchased Nest Labs for $ 3.2 billion in cash, its second - largest acquisition to date.

Shell disappointed the market with its second - quarter results, the first full quarter following the completion of the BG acquisition in February, by missing expectations by around 50 %.

The network equipment company said the deal would likely close during the second half of 2013 and it expects the acquisition to be slightly dilutive to non-GAAP earnings in fiscal year 2014.

Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is their biggest deal to date, and is 14 times as big as their second - largest acquisition of Twitch in 2014.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

Mark Shafir, Citigroup global co-head of mergers & acquisitions, discusses the outlook for global mergers and acquisitions in the second half of 2017.

The planned merger would be the second - largest M&A deal on record behind Vodafone AirTouch's $ 172.0 billion acquisition of Mannesman in 1999, according to Dealogic.

The BroadSoft deal is the company's second major acquisition this year following the $ 3.7 billion acquisition of privately - held AppDynamics in March.

Last year PepsiCo delivered 4 % organic revenue growth (the company's favorite non-GAAP metric, it removes the effects of acquisitions and currency fluctuations) for the second year in a row.

Perth property investor Stephen Lauder and Jandakot City developer Ascot Capital have completed their second joint venture purchase, with the $ 65 million acquisition of a serviced apartments building in Canberra.

We expect our acquisition to close on schedule in the second quarter,» General Motors said.

NVCA president Mark Heesen is also concerned that the total value of merger and acquisition deals, another key outlet for VC - backed companies, was 40 percent less in the second quarter than in the same period in 2007.

In the history of the Chicago's newspaper wars, Ferro's acquisition of the Second City's second paper will be seen as a stepping stone to the TrSecond City's second paper will be seen as a stepping stone to the Trsecond paper will be seen as a stepping stone to the Tribune.

The acquisitions helped Lenovo reach the top spot in PC shipments in the second quarter of last year.

The following month, in September 2010, LinkedIn announced its second acquisition when it took on ChoiceVendor, a Yelp - style B2B review site that was subsequently closed after the deal.

CVS said Wednesday that its proposed $ 69 billion acquisition of Hartford - based health insurer Aetna is on pace to close in the second half of this year.

Rockwell Collins reports second quarter financial results - Apr 27, 2018 - Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) reported sales for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 of $ 2.180 billion, a 62 % increase from the same period in fiscal year 2017, or 5 % organic growth excluding $ 776 million of revenue from the acquisition of B / E Aerospace.

Didi dominates the Chinese market — thanks in no small amount to its acquisition of second - placed Uber China — but this year it has expanded to Brazil via an acquisition and Taiwan via a franchise model, and also moved into bike - sharing and vehicle rentals.

The company also expects to achieve $ 25 million of pre-tax net synergies in the first year of the acquisition, and $ 100 million run - rate synergies starting in the second year.

That said, Pouncey listed several fundamental drivers for crypto's resurgence in the second quarter, including the acquisition of Poloniex by Goldman - backed Circle as well as the acquisition of Coincheck by Monex Group.

In its second acquisition this year, InTouch Health, which develops enterprise telehealth technology for hospitals and health systems, announced that it has acquired Reach Health, another telemedicine platform.

Nest's acquisition was the second biggest acquisition by Google in recent time, second only to the $ 12 Billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility.

A second property acquisition will be announced in May, with plans for additional acquisitions later this year.

More specifically, for the second quarter of its fiscal 2018, Darden's revenue a climbed 14.6 % year over year to $ 1.88 billion — comfortably above the $ 1.85 billion investors were anticipating — including 11.5 % growth related to its acquisition of Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen earlier this year, and a 3.1 % increase in blended same - restaurant sales from Darden's legacy brands.

Nest labs was also acquired for $ 3.2 billion USD in January 2014, which was the second biggest acquisition by Google in recent times.

A bit of a misnomer In the second quarter Berkshire Hathaway completed a small — if you can consider $ 1.1 billion small — acquisition of WLPG, a television studio based in Miami from Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHCIn the second quarter Berkshire Hathaway completed a small — if you can consider $ 1.1 billion small — acquisition of WLPG, a television studio based in Miami from Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHCin Miami from Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC).

The second - largest corporate acquisition in history produced the biggest single return ever recorded in such a takeover — $ 84 billion to Vodafone shareholders — when Verizon acquired the US assets of UK - based Vodafone.

A few other stories relate a crucial 10 seconds in the Teck - Hughes acquisition, the accidental foray into Saskatchewan oil, the Toronto establishment snubbing Afton because of its VSE listing, an underhanded ultimatum from the British Columbia government, getting out of the oyster business and winning an unheard - of 130 % financing for Hemlo.

Shares of Michael Kors Holdings Ltd (NYSE: KORS) were looking attractive today after the fashion house posted better results than expected in its second - quarter earnings report and raised its outlook following the closing of its Jimmy Choo acquisition last week.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITION By Gordon Platt Growing risk appetite triggered a sudden burst of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in October, as investors prepared for a second round of quantitative easing, or QE2, from the Federal...

Strong investor interest in mergers and acquisitions for education companies is likely to continue for the second half of 2015, after a record - setting first half of the year in which the value of transactions reached $ 6.11 billion — 29 percent higher than the same time last year, according to Peter Yoon, a managing director for education at Berkery Noyes, an investment bank.

The partnership with Lyft and the acquisitions of Sidecar and Cruise — the latter of which the company expects to close in the second quarter — signal that GM is getting serious about its driverless future.

My second acquisition was for 15 additional shares of BNS, also on the Toronto Stock Exchange in CAD.

BEIJING China will form a powerful new competition and food safety regulator in a bid to ramp up oversight of mergers and acquisitions and price - fixing as the world's second - largest economy seeks to make policymaking more efficient.

NEW YORK, April 26 (LPC)- A US$ 7bn crossover loan package backing the US$ 15.3 bn cash and stock acquisition of GGP, the second - largest mall owner in the US, by global commercial real estate giant Brookfield Property Partners LP, includes the biggest term loan A (TLA) financing of the year so far.

«Our acquisition of Gibraltar, Hercules» second strategic completed acquisition, represents a unique opportunity to invest in one of the leading established asset - based lenders in the country,» said Manuel A. Henriquez, founder, chairman and CEO of Hercules.»

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, returned from his second official trip to China in February and announced that Beijing would lend two giant pandas, Er Shun and Ji Li,...

The second hurdle after the acquisition was to ensure the talented employees who are committed to the company were engaged and saw their future in the organization.

The appointment coincides with a recent acquisition of a second New Zealand winery, Summerhouse, and in advance of a big year for the company's South American brands ahead of the 2016 Olympics.

This was the company's second major acquisition in recent years.

This is the second new geographic market Coveris has entered in the past six weeks, following the recently announced acquisition of Elldex, a full - service flexible packaging company in New Zealand.

A return to stability in Argentina and new acquisitions in Poland, combined with a general upturn in international markets, should help French cheese group Bongrain return to growth in the second half.

The acquisition of Cadbury has helped Kraft Foods to report higher than expected second quarter profit despite a decline in its North American sales.

The acquisition of DeLeón will accelerate Diageo's share of ultra-premium and above ($ 40 +) tequila, which is the second - fastest growing tequila segment in the U.S., according to Nielsen.

This deal represents Edward Don & Company's second acquisition since Vestar Capital Partners made an equity investment in the company in March 2017.