As part of its goal to offload non-core assets, Australia-based food company Goodman Fielder had sold its biscuit business at a loss to Green's Foods in a deal valued at $17 million.
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Woodside stake to be divested in pieces - bankers
Bankers expressed their doubts that Royal Dutch Shell's 23.1% stake in Woodside Petroleum could be snatched up by bigger oil companies as the latter are also eyeing to sell assets as well.
Co-founder Lazaridis cuts stake in BlackBerry
Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry, has sold 3.5 million shares in the troubled company for $26 million, according to documents filed with US regulators.
Unipol receives offer for $2 bln insurance business up for sale
Italian insurer Unipol said it had received an offer to buy the insurance business with 1.7 billion euros ($2.3 billion) worth of premiums which it must sell to meet conditions set by the local competition watchdog to clear its merger with peer Fondiaria-SAI.
Fidelity National to sell some assets to address antitrust issues
Title insurer Fidelity National Financial will sell a number of its databases to meet U.S. charges its proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of Lender Processing Services Inc hurt competition, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
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Samruk-Kazyna, Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund, on Monday struck a deal to sell equal-sized stakes in its BTA Bank. Its holding in the country's third-biggest bank will be sold to Kazkommertsbank and businessman Kenes Rakishev for an undisclosed sum.
Rhoen-Klinukum, which had put up for sale its 43 hospitals and 15 outpatient facilities, expects to get the green light from German antitrust regulators on the proposed sale of most of its assets to rival Fresenius SE & Co.
CSI Holdco, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc, has exited two solar power plants called the PSEG Shasta Solar Farm to PSEG Solar Source, subsidiary of Public Service Enterprise Group.
Fondazione Monte dei Paschi, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena's top shareholder, is reportedly nearing a deal to divest its 20% stake in the Italian bank to three other banking foundations and a group of investment funds.
Tribune Co., which planned to split its newspaper division from its TV-broadcasting division in July, said that it intends to meet with Rep. Henry Waxman to dicuss his concern about the spinoff's impact on the Los Angeles Times.
Time Warner Cable's 462% total returns may help convince its shareholders to reject Charter Communications' $62 billion offer or to not press for a sale. Time Warner Cable is seeking a takeover bid of $150 per share.
Shares of Hyundai Merchant Marine jumped the most among shares of Hyundai Group companies following the conglomerate's announcement that it will sell assets to raise $3.1 billion to repay bonds due in two years.
Banco de Sabadell on Friday announced that it has sold its 15.8% stake in Dominican Republic's Centro Financiero BHD for $156 million. Sabadell also recently exited its holdings in Grupo BHD, Centro Partner Group, Twins Investment Partners and Grupo Financiero Leon.
Claude Resources has agreed to sell its Madsen Gold Project to Laurentian Goldfields for about C$9 million in cash. Claude will also receive shares representing 19.9% shares outstanding in Laurentian as part of the deal.
