Mergers and Acquisitions

The Home Depot Inc. is buying Interline Brands Inc., which distributes maintenance and repair products, for just under $1.63 billion in cash.

St. Jude Medical Inc. will buy Thoratec Corp. for about $3.4 billion in cash, adding more medical devices aimed at heart conditions to its portfolio.

Auto parts maker Magna International Inc. will pay about US$1.93 million (1.76 billion euros) to buy the Getrag Group, a German supplier of automotive transmissions for car manufacturers such as Ford, BMW, Daimler and others.

Car parts maker Magna International Inc. is buying Getrag, a German-based manufacturer of automotive transmissions, in a 1.75 billion euro ($1.9 billion) deal.

Activist investment firm Starboard Value says retailer Macy's could boost its share price by spinning off its real estate into a separate company or forming a joint venture, saying the shares are worth almost double their current price.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Jarden Corp. (JAH), up $2.69 to $55.01 The consumer products company is buying disposable tableware maker The Waddington Group Inc. for about $1.35 billion.

Spain's leading El Corte Ingles department store chain says it has sold a 10 percent stake to a Qatari sheikh for 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion).

Depomed has adopted a "poison pill" plan less than a week after Horizon Pharma went hostile with a $2.1 billion takeover bid.

Jarden is buying disposable tableware maker The Waddington Group Inc. for about $1.35 billion as it looks to get into the business-to-business market more.

Laugh it up, Fuzzballs: Han Solo is getting his own movie, and it's going to be helmed by "Lego Movie" directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord.

H.J. Heinz Co on Thursday completed its purchase of Kraft, creating the third largest food and beverage company in North America and fifth largest worldwide.

Dollar Tree Inc. said Thursday it has been cleared by the Federal Trade Commission to acquire Family Dollar Stores Inc., bringing to a close a merger saga that started nearly a year ago.

The U.S. media company Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. has finalized an agreement for a controlling stake in Poland's largest commercial broadcaster, a 584 million-euro ($650 million) deal that comes as the U.S. company expands into Europe.

FourPoint Energy LLC will buy oil and gas assets from Chesapeake Exploration LLC and CHK Cleveland Tonkawa LLC for about $840 million.

The U.S. subsidiary of a Brazilian-based international meat processor is buying the pork division of Cargill Inc.

ConAgra Foods Inc. (CAG) on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $209.2 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

Cisco said Tuesday that it plans to buy privately-held OpenDNS for $635 million to boost its network security business.

General Electric Co. is selling its U.S., Mexico, Australia and New Zealand fleet businesses to Element Financial Corp. for $6.9 billion.

Scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher will spend $403 million to acquire a Massachusetts research chemicals producer.