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| Jun.14 |
Oakland |
Cost Plus mum on Pier 1's acquisition offer| Cost Plus has yet to formally respond to an unsolicited offer to acquire the retailer in a stock swap worth $88 million | |
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| Sep.7 |
Berkeley |
Japanese bookseller buys Cody's Books| A Tokyo-based Yohan Inc. bought Cody's Books | |
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| May.5 |
Emeryville |
Pixar Shares Higher Following Acquisition Shareholders of Pixar Animation Studios voted to approve the acquisition by Disney for $7.4 billion
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| Apr.20 |
Emeryville |
Chiron shareholders OK sale to Novartis Shareholders approved a $5.4 billion acquisition by Swiss drug giant Novartis, ending the independent existence
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McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B
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| Feb.14 |
Emeryville |
Oracle buys Sleepycat Continuing a recent shopping spree, software maker announced the acquisition of Sleepycat Software
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| Jan.24 |
Emeryville |
Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal Disney has agreed a $7.4bn deal to buy the animation firm behind films including Toy Story and The Incredibles
| 2.3 Disney shares will be issued for each Pixar share. The deal will see Pixar CEO Steve Jobs join Disney's board of directors. Jobs fell out with former Disney boss Michael Eisner. Disney's new boss Robert Iger has been working to revive relations between the companies
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| Jan.20 |
Emeryville |
Wham-O sold The manufacturer of the Frisbee, the Hula Hoop, was sold to a Hong Kong distributor
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| Jan.19 |
Emeryville |
Disney in serious talks to buy Pixar The Walt Disney is in serious talks to buy Pixar Animation Studios, following months of exploring
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| Nov.1 |
Emeryville |
Novartis to buy Chiron| Chiron's board accepted a $5.1 billion purchase offer from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG | | |
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| Sep.1 |
Emeryville |
$4.5B Offered to Finish Chiron Takeover Novartis is offering $4.5 billion in cash for the remaining stake in Chiron to complete its takeover
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| Jul.26 |
Berkeley |
Hershey buys Scharffen Berger Candy giant announced the acquisition of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker Inc.
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Sun buys StorageTek for $4.1 billion
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| Mar.21 |
Oakland |
Diller's Co. Buying Ask Jeeves for $1.85B| Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp is electronic-commerce company. AskJeeves shares climbed 14% | |
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Oracle Buys PeopleSoft for $10.3 Billion
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| Oct.7 |
Oakland |
Clorox, Henkel in $2.8 billion deal The stock swap and cash deal, in which Henkel will sell back its 29% ownership stake in Clorox in return for $2.1b in cash
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| Jun.9 |
Emeryville |
Ask Jeeves Acquired Tukaroo Web search company bought San Jose-based private desktop search company
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| Mar.4 |
Emeryville |
Ask Jeeves acquires Interactive Search Online search engine is paying $343 million for a family of Web sites that includes Excite.com and iWon.com
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| Jun.17 |
Emeryville |
Chevys restaurants be acquired Chevys Fresh Mex and Fuzio Universal Pasta will be acquired by Texas-based Consolidated Restaurant Operations
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| May.19 |
Emeryville |
Chiron to buy vaccine maker PowderJect Chiron will buy British rival for about $878 million
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| Apr.29 |
Emeryville |
Wham-O buys assets of snowboard maker Company which makes Frisbees and Hula Hoops bought the assets of Riva Sports Inc.
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| Oct.31 |
Oakland |
Firm merges to create giant law practice Law firms Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May and Pittsburgh-based 125-year-old Reed Smith announced a merger
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CEO claims victory in merger vote
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| Feb.6 |
Martinez |
Tesoro to buy oil refinery Tesoro Petroleum Corp. is spending $1 billion to buy the Golden Eagle refinery
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| Jan.17 |
Berkeley |
Book firm agrees to merger Advanced Marketing Services will acquire Publishers Group West for $38 million
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