Tag: Mergers & Acquisitions

Thomson Corp. undertook a massive transformation, selling off its Thomson Learning division for $7.8 billion and reaching a deal to acquire Reuters for $17.2 billion.

Shortly after increasing the size of its third fund to $850 million in the first quarter, Littlejohn & Co. L.L.C. went on a $1.1 billion spending spree in Montreal, buying two companies there, while carving a third company out of ITT Corp.

In the space of a month, two business analytics software rivals – both based in Fairfield County – have been snapped up by the rival giants of enterprise resource planning software.

VCA Antech Inc. is acquiring Shelton-based Healthy Pet Corp. for $153 million, expanding the vet-clinic chain’s paw print in Connecticut, Massachusetts and other Eastern states.

ConEdison Solutions, the energy service provider based in White Plains, has acquired BGA Inc., an energy service and engineering company headquartered in Tampa, Fla.

On the heels of its buyout of a paper mill in upstate New York, Atlas Industries Holdings L.L.C. plans to print $190 million in cash via an initial public offering of stock and accompanying private placements.

The future may be in question for Cambridge Solutions Ltd.’s U.S. headquarters in Greenwich, as bidders in the firm’s home base of India put together buyout offers for the outsourcing firm.

SignStorey Inc. has acquired Captive Audience L.L.C. of Newton, N.J., with both companies operating digital billboards in supermarkets that display information and advertising for shoppers.

L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. paid the former chief executive officer of its Viisage unit $1.1 million as a separation payment, even as he cashed in stock options worth $5 million more on his way out the door.

Baldwin Technology Co. Inc. has acquired Hildebrand Systeme GmbH, a printing press cleansing company with 20 workers in Germany and Switzerland.

Planet Organic Health Corp. is buying Mrs. Green’s Natural Market Inc., a Scarsdale, N.Y., chain with stores in Stamford and Fairfield.

Just months after the exit of its patriarch, Paxar Corp. agreed to a $1.3 billion takeover by Avery Dennison Corp., one of its biggest rivals.

A Massachusetts energy firm is acquiring an oil terminal in Newburgh from ExxonMobil Oil Corp., along with facilities in Albany and Burlington, Vt.

Towers Perrin has acquired ISR, a Chicago firm that surveys employees on how they view their work settings, and which itself has more than 200 employees in 10 locations.