Mergers and Acquisitions

The Chemours Co. is closing its Delaware titanium dioxide production facility, which employs about 200 workers, the former performance chemicals business spun off from the DuPont Co. said Thursday.

A little-used gas-fired power plant built by the Southern Montana Electricity Generation and Transmission Cooperative and at least partly blamed for the wholesale electricity supplier's 2011 bankruptcy will be taken apart and resold for its parts.

European Union regulators on Tuesday approved Pfizer's $15.23 billion purchase of injectable drug and infusion device maker Hospira.

McGraw Hill Financial, owner of ratings agency Standard & Poor's, is buying SNL Financial for about $2.23 billion.

Japanese media reports say automaker Mitsubishi Motors has decided to end production in the U.S. to focus on Asian markets.

A Michigan union pledged to try to stop a three-year, $158 million prison food contract approved Tuesday, questioning the lack of a new bid and saying state employees should again be doing the work instead.

Michigan is terminating a three-year $145 million contract with the company that feeds state prisoners.

GlobalFoundries announced Wednesday it had completed its purchase of IBM's microchip plants in Vermont and New York, giving a new lease on life to a big employer in Vermont and New York's Duchess County.

Martha Stewart Living is being acquired in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $353 million.

Here are milestones for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.

Here are milestones for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE United Technologies Corp., down $2.99 to $114.61 The conglomerate is shedding helicopter maker Sikorsky and will focus on high-technology products for the aerospace industry.

United Technologies Corp. has announced it will separate its Connecticut-based Sikorksy Aircraft business as it exits the helicopter business.

U.S. antitrust regulators say Holcim and Lafarge agreed to sell assets including cement plants and transportation assets to complete their merger, which will make the world's largest cement company.

Dean Foods will place all of its regional milk labels under one brand as part of a move to boost its business and tout the quality of its product.

A plant that makes lottery ticket vending machines will be closing its doors and laying off 44 employees following the merger of two gaming companies.

CBRE Group Inc. said Tuesday that it will pay $1.475 billion in cash to buy a unit of Johnson Controls Inc. that manages spaces for corporations.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc., up $3.03 to $31.86 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating the safety of the company's laminate flooring made in China.

Alcoa has announced plans to cut production at the Suralco alumina refinery in Suriname and to pursue a sale to the government of the South American country.

New Hampshire's largest utility has agreed to sell its power plants after months of negotiations with state officials, saying it will save customers at least $300 million.