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...Last year, Emerson Electric agreed to buy Pentair’s valves and controls business for $3.15bn. Randall Hogan, Pentair’s chairman and chief executive, will join that business as chairman....
...Tyco split into three in 2012, spinning off the ADT security company and Pentair, a valve maker....
...Other sales over the past few years include a 45 per cent stake in UAE-based valve manufacturer KEF Holdings to Tyco International in March 2011, and four Holiday Inn Express hotels in Dubai....
...Tyco Flow Control makes valves and controls for the energy and industrial sectors as well as pipes for water systems, while Pentair sells commercial and residential water filtration systems and products...
...The Seaboard deal was similar in scale to its $653m acquisition of SPM Flow Control in 2007, which originally established Weir as a large supplier to upstream oil companies in North America looking to exploit...
...The hundreds of newspapers, television stations and other “free media” offer a “relief valve” for the Iraqi public to debate the issues of their burgeoning democracy, Rumsfeld said....
...Rumours around Hanson have intensified, particularly since it has its asbestos liability under control. Lafarge is seen as the stalker....
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