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...While the firm worked on several marquee consumer sector transactions including the sale of Kraft Foods to Heinz and Lorillard to Reynolds American, its most productive area was the pharmaceutical sector...
...Oct 21 BAT makes $47bn offer to buy out Reynolds 4. Oct 31 GE and Baker Hughes to merge oil and gas units 5....
...Imperial owns Blu, the US’s second-biggest ecigarette brand, which was among the $7.1bn of assets that it bought last year from Reynolds and Lorillard....
...Sector peer Travis Perkins lost 4.4 per cent to £19.27 after Wolseley’s full-year results showed margin pressure in the UK....
...In the past three days, the price had fallen sharply from $4.60, said Travis Miller, a Morningstar analyst....
...Builders' merchant Travis Perkins was 0.5 per cent weaker at £15.82 with Wolseley, the world’s biggest supplier of plumbing and heating goods, fell 1.6 per cent to £31.76....
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