EU mergers and takeovers (March 7)=2

MARCH 18

-- Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL], the German transport company, buys Transportes Ferroviarios Especiales, a Spanish freight company (notified Feb. 12/deadline March 18)

MARCH 27

-- German beverage producer Radeberger Gruppe buys German beverage distributor Getraenke Essmann and German beer licence owner Phoenix Vertriebs und Beteiligungsgesellschaft (notified Feb. 18/deadline March 27)

-- Marel Food Systems (MARL.IC: Quote, Profile, Research), an Icelandic fish and poultry processing machinery and systems company, buys the food systems division of Dutch industrial group Stork NV VMFN.AS (notified Feb. 18/deadline March 27)

MARCH 28

-- A U.S. unit of Finnish communications networks company Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) buys U.S. digital map data company Navteq NVT.N (notified Feb. 19/deadline March 28)