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UPDATE 1-Apax, LBO France in talks to sell Maisons du Monde - sources
PARIS, June 19 - Private equity firms Apax Partners and LBO France have started exclusive talks to sell French furniture store chain Maisons du Monde to Bain Capital, two sources close to the matter said on Wednesday.
Apax, LBO France in talks to sell Maisons du Monde - sources
PARIS, June 19 - Private equity firms Apax Partners and LBO France have started exclusive talks to sell French furniture store chain Maisons du Monde to Bain Capital, two sources close to the matter said on Wednesday.
UPDATE 1-Private equity firm Abraaj to acquire West Africa's Fan Milk
ACCRA, June 19 - Dubai private equity group Abraaj said on Wednesday it will acquire African dairy firm Fan Milk International, tapping into fast rising consumer spending in six west African countries.
KKR among bidders for Saudi fast food chain -sources
* More than 40 potential bidders were approached - sources
Royal Mail workers vote against sell-off
LONDON, June 19 - Royal Mail workers backed union opposition to plans to privatise the state-owned postal group on Wednesday, a stark reminder for potential investors that there will be no warm welcome if and when the firm changes hands.
UPDATE 2-BC Partners to buy Springer Science for 3.3 bln euros
FRANKFURT, June 19 - Buyout firm BC Partners agreed to buy German publisher Springer Science+Business Media for about 3.3 billion euros ($4.4 billion) on Wednesday, the largest private-equity acquisition in Germany for seven years.
Start-up to bring test-drive cars to buyers, avoiding dealership
DETROIT, June 19 - A new company hopes to make the car-buying process easier for consumers and more efficient for dealers by bringing cars to buyers for test drives, avoiding the need to spend hours at a dealership.
Abraaj says to acquire 100 pct of Ghana's Fan Milk
JOHANNESBURG, June 19 - Dubai private equity group Abraaj said on Wednesday it will acquire 100 percent of Ghana dairy firm Fan Milk.
Australia's Intrepid faces tough fight over Indonesia mine
MELBOURNE/JAKARTA, June 19 - Australia's Intrepid Mines Ltd is learning that business in Indonesia is personal as it wages a difficult fight to win back rights to a $5 billion copper and gold prospect in East Java.
BRIEF-Cabot Square agrees 35 mln stg sale of Key Retirement Solutions
LONDON, June 19 - Cabot Square: * Cabot Square agrees £35M sale of Key Retirement Solutions * Cabot Square - sale to Phoenix Equity Partners
Accel Partners raises $100 million for second Big Data fund
Venture capital firm Accel Partners has raised an additional $100 million fund for investment in Big Data companies. This follows a previous fund with a similar corpus. Accel has also added Anthony Deighton, CTO of QlikTech Inc., and Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, to the Big Data Fund Advisory Council.
EU fines Ranbaxy, others for blocking cheaper drugs
BRUSSELS - European antitrust regulators fined nine drugmakers, including Denmark's Lundbeck and India's Ranbaxy, a total of 146 million euros for blocking the supply of a cheaper anti-depressant to the market, the first EU sanction against such deals.
- EU fines Ranbaxy, others for blocking cheaper drugs
- World Bank watching U.S. Fed, ready to respond
- Tata Motors upgrades cars as rivals launch new ones
- Wall St dips after recent rally as Fed statement looms
- Sensex ends higher ahead of Fed decision
- Rupee gains, but still close to record low
- Half-way to lost decade, Europe's growth task as tough as ever
- India to consider allowing extra wheat exports on Friday
- World stocks firm, dollar steady before Fed decision
- Foreign investors buy RComm June futures
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