Alcon, Inc. NYSE:ACL announced today that the company now holds over 70 percent of WaveLight AG outstanding shares through purchase, contractual commitment or tender. Additionally, Alcon’s takeover of WaveLight AG was recently approved by the German Federal Cartel Authority.
Alcon recently amended its acquisition offer by removing the minimum acceptance threshold and extending the tender offer […]

Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG - News) today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Agroindustrial Santa Juliana, a sugarcane mill and ethanol production facility located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, from the Tenorio Group. The acquisition represents Bunge’s first production asset in the sugar and sugar- based ethanol industry, and […]

-Funds advised by Apax Partners (”Apax”) have agreed to acquire Qualitest and Vintage Pharmaceuticals, a leading distributor and manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals based in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
Founded in 1983 by Mr. William S. Propst, Sr., Qualitest and Vintage Pharmaceuticals was established to provide quality generic pharmaceuticals at affordable prices. Today, the company produces tablets, capsules, […]

TMW Systems, Inc., the largest provider of enterprise management software to the transportation industry in North America, announced today that it had acquired Integrated Support Decision Corporation (IDSC). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
IDSC is the leading independent provider of optimization-based decision support software for the trucking industry. Twenty-one of the Transport Topics Top […]

The Timken Company NYSE: TKR today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of The Purdy Corp., a leading precision manufacturer and systems integrator for military and commercial aviation customers, for $200 million. The acquisition will further expand the growing range of power-transmission products and capabilities Timken provides to the […]