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Date: 09 February 1999
Rupert Murdoch has put his oldest son, Lachlan, in charge of News Corp's US publishing businesses; younger Murdoch is named to new position of senior executive vice president of company; he will also become member of office of chairman alongside his father and other key eecutives (S)
Date: 10 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Playtex Products Inc. wants to expand its infant-care and skin- care businesses and will consider additional acquisitions this year, Michael Gallagher, its chief executive, said yesterday. Playtex, based in Westport, Conn., and the maker of Playtex tampons, Chubs baby wipes and other goods, said it would also consider acquisitions to expand its largest business, which is feminine-care products. Infant-care products are expected to generate as much as 38 percent of Playtex sales this year, an increase from a third of sales in 1998 and 25 percent in 1997, the company said.
Date: 10 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company of Canada said it would pay 80 billion yen, or $703.8 million (United States), for the business of the Daihyaku Life Insurance Company of Japan, becoming the second foreign insurer to buy into the world's largest life insurance market. Daihyaku will transfer most of its sales and support staff of 6,800 to a joint venture with Manulife, Canada's largest mutual life insurer. Manulife will own 75 percent of the venture, and Daihyaku will own the rest. Deregulation and Japan's weakening economy are providing opportunities for foreign companies to enter the Japanese insurance market, which, with annual premiums of $500 billion, is about twice the size of its counterpart in the United States. GE Capital Services, a unit of the General Electric Company, is already active there.
Date: 09 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
HealthSouth Corp says its board has approved plan to buy back as many as 70 million shares, worth about $1 billion, and will take fourth-quarter charge of around $310 million (S)
Date: 09 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Computer Associates International Inc to buy Computer Management Sciences Inc for about $435 million (S)
Date: 10 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Deutsche Bank A.G.'s planned $10.1 billion acquisition of the Bankers Trust Corporation could be derailed if regulators in the United States delay approval, Rolf Breuer, chief executive of Deutsche, said. He commented to a German TV station on Monday after the bank, Jewish leaders, and American and German Government officials met in Washington to try to settle compensation claims by victims of the Nazi Holocaust and their heirs. The acquisition by Bankers Trust, based in New York, by Deutsche, Germany's largest bank, requires the approval of banking regulators in the United States Government and in New York State.
Date: 10 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, the third-largest United States brokerage firm, said it would buy Asesores Bursatiles, Spain's biggest independent broker, giving it $4.34 billion in managed funds in one of Europe's fastest-growing asset management markets. The purchase gives Morgan Stanley, based in New York, an entry into individual investor services in Europe, and the Spanish company's 420-branch private banking network could also help increase Morgan Stanley's share of securities underwriting for Spanish corporations. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Shares of Morgan Stanley fell $2.8125, to $85.75.
Date: 09 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Building One Services Corp calls off agreement with financier Leon Black's Apollo Management LP to take control of Building One in $900 million stock buyback deal; instead, Building One says it will acquire half its 44 million shares for about $550 million, in tender offer, and will spend about $15 million to buy back half company's stock options (S)
Date: 09 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corporate Express Inc hires Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and BT Alex Brown to assess its business and evaluate options; founder Jirka Rysavy gives up his post as chairman to become chief exeecutive of Gaiam Inc, a company he founded; Robert King, president-chief executive, will assume more leadership duties (S)
Date: 09 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Scotia Holdings PLC sells North American rights to its appetite-suppressing food additive, Olibra, to General Mills Inc; General Mills will invest large sums to develop Olibra-based foods (S)