Mergers and Acquisitions

Post Holdings Inc. said Friday it will merge two of its cereal businesses, headquarter them in Minnesota and close a New Jersey office as it separately grapples with a widening bird flu outbreak that has forced it to discontinue some products and tweak prices.

Beer and wine bottle maker Owens-Illinois is paying about $2.15 billion to buy the food and beverage glass container business of the Mexican company Vitro.

Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ say they will combine in a deal creating one of the world's largest real estate companies.

Swiss biotechnology company Syngenta said Friday that it has rejected a takeover offer from Monsanto Co., a bid that it said greatly undervalued its prospects.

Sears Holdings announced its third real estate deal of the month on Thursday, saying it received $150 million after starting a joint venture with mall operator Macerich.

Quanta Services is selling its fiber optic licensing operations to Crown Castle International Corp. for about $1 billion.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra is dismissing any talk of a possible merger with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

Volkswagen Group edged out General Motors again to take at least second place in the race to be the world's top-selling automaker.

Warehouse and distribution center operator Prologis Inc. says it has acquired KTR Capital Partners, which owns more than 300 industrial properties in the U.S.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is promising to compromise in negotiations over the next installment of a bailout loan that would forestall Greece's possible exit from the European currency union.

Nestle SA says it is in exclusive negotiations to sell its Davigel frozen-food division to the Brakes Group, a European catering supplier.

Canadian gold mining companies Alamos Gold and AuRico Gold Inc. are merging in a deal valued at approximately $1.5 billion.

General Electric has transformed in the past decade.

Walgreens plans to close about 200 U.S. stores as the nation's largest drugstore chain expands on a $1 billion cost-reduction plan it announced last August.

Royal Dutch Shell said Wednesday it has agreed to buy BG Group for 47 billion pounds ($69.7 billion) in a cash and stock takeover.

Federal regulators have approved Wisconsin Energy Corp.'s proposed $9.1 billion takeover of Chicago-based Integrys Energy Group Inc.

United Technologies Corp. has announced a change in leadership at Sikorsky Aircraft, less than a month after announcing it may spin off the helicopter-making subsidiary.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives began debate Wednesday on another proposal to privatize the operations of much of the state-controlled wine and liquor store system, but it faces an uncertain fate and is challenged as a long-term fiscal loser for the state government.

Sears is posting its fourth straight year of falling profit and revenue, though cost cutting narrowed those declines in the fourth-quarter.

A proposal to sell off most of Pennsylvania's state-owned liquor system and its wholesale distribution network moved ahead with a vote on the Legislature on Monday, although its prospects to become law remain uncertain.