M&A
Flipkart raises $1.5 bn, Snapdeal takeover around the corner
07 Apr 2017
India’s biggest ecommerce company will raise a total of $2 billion in the current funding round, with another $500 million coming from Japanese internet and telecom conglomerate SoftBank
JAB Holding in pact to buy US bakery chain Panera Bread for $7.2 bn
06 Apr 2017
Panera Bread is a bakery-café fast casual restaurant chain with operations in the US and Canada, where it employs over 100,000 people and generates annual revenues of $5 billion
Snapdeal reported on the verge of being sold to Flipkart
06 Apr 2017
Most reports say that the country's third-largest online shopping platform Snapdeal would be sold to Flipkart, but Paytm's name has also come up as a potential buyer – in any case the valuation is likely to be a fraction of what it was last year
US regulator grants conditional approval to $43-bn ChemChina-Syngenta merger
05 Apr 2017
The US federal regulator yesterday approved the $43-billion merger between State-owned China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) and Switzerland's Syngenta AG on condition that it divest three products