05:56 AM EDT, 06/27/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Unilever ( UL ) will be paying $1.5 billion to acquire men's grooming brand Dr. Squatch, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing unnamed people familiar with the details. The deal, which was announced on Monday, is expected to close later this year, subject to customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions. Unilever ( UL...

June 27 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Friday: ** Australia's Santos said on Friday it had granted exclusive due diligence for a period of six weeks to an international consortium led by Abu Dhabi's National Oil Company (ADNOC), which had offered $18.7 billion for the gas producer. ** Kazakhstan's ForteBank,...

* Sources said in January the IPO could be worth up to $1 billion * IPO portfolio made up of assets valued at $1.6 billion * Cornerstone investors include GIC and other investment firms (Adds NTT response in paragraph 4; identity of banks working on IPO in paragraphs 13-14) By Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE, June 27 (Reuters) - Japan's Nippon Telegraph...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...