Mergers and Acquisitions

Pharmacy operator PharMerica raised its annual forecasts Wednesday, citing favorable business trends and a recent acquisition.

General Electric, a household name for more than a century in part for making households easier to run, is leaving the home.

Global Cash Access Holdings is getting into the casino gaming business, spending about $1.2 billion to buy Multimedia Games Holdings.

Sweden's Electrolux says it is buying the appliances business of General Electric for $3.3 billion, boosting its presence on the North American market.

FMC is buying a Danish insecticide company for $1.8 billion.

Global Cash Access Holdings Inc, which provides cash services to casinos, said it would buy slot machine maker Multimedia Games Holding Co Inc for about $1.

The Daily Item of Lynn, which has been owned by the same family since 1877, has been sold to a local investment group.

HanesBrands raised its full-year forecast Wednesday after completing its acquisition of DBApparel.

A developer of Israel's offshore natural gas deposits says it has signed a letter of intent to sell gas to Jordan over a 15-year period.

Dutch brewer Heineken NV says it has sold its packaging business in Mexico to Crown Holdings Inc. of the U.S. for $1.23 billion (940 million euros) to reduce debt.

FairPoint Communications workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have known it had to come to an end.

Federal regulators are putting Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc.'s planned $25 billion takeover of rival Newport maker Lorillard Inc. under the microscope.

Burger King plans to become is the latest U.S. company to shift its legal address out of the country by merging with a foreign company.

Two weeks after rejecting a takeover bid out of Brazil, Chiquita says it's identified still more cost savings in a proposed tie-up with the Irish fruit company Fyffes.

Botox maker Allergan says it's reviewing shareholder requests for a special meeting to consider replacing most of its board.

In an industrial area outside Kenya's capital city, workers in hard hats and white masks take shiny new power drills to computer parts.

Dynegy plans to spend more than $6 billion to buy several coal and gas power generation plants from Duke Energy and Energy Capital Partners.

BP PLC said Wednesday that it has hired David Lawler as CEO of the oil and gas company's U.S. business, which is gearing up to spin off into its own separate company.

Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc. said Wednesday that it has agreed to sell its Simonton Windows business to building products maker Ply Gem Holdings Inc. for about $130 million.

Botox maker Allergan, which is fighting a hostile takeover bid from Valeant Pharmaceuticals, has named longtime executive Jim Hindman its new chief financial officer.