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Israel Chemicals To Buy Scotts' Specialty Fertilizer Unit

07.12.2010 - Israel Chemicals (ICL), a fertilizer and specialty chemicals maker, said on Tuesday it agreed to buy the Global Professional business unit of Scotts Miracle-Gro for $270 million...

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K+S Prepared to Invest $2 Billion with Partner

22.11.2010 - German potash miner K+S is prepared to invest as much as $2 billion with a partner in new mining projects, as the company seeks to tap resurgent global fertilizer demand. "We are...

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BHP Tosses Out Potash Corp Bid, Plans $4.2 Billion Share Buyback

15.11.2010 - Top global miner BHP Billiton killed its $39 billion bid for Potash Corp, the world's biggest deal this year, and said on Monday it would return $4.2 billion to investors through a...

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Challenge To Potash Pill Set For Nov.8 Hearing

28.10.2010 - Saskatchewan's securities regulator will hear BHP Billiton's challenge to Potash Corp's shareholder rights plan on Nov. 8-9, assuming the federal government allows BHP's $39...

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Sinochem Hires Banks to Explore Potash Counterbid

22.09.2010 - China's Sinochem has hired banks to advise the company on how to foil BHP Billiton's $39 billion bid for Potash, sources said, in a sign that Chinese officials are moving ahead...

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Potash Working on China-led Buyout to Top BHP

17.09.2010 - Potash is trying to stitch together a consortium led by China to back a management buyout to trump BHP Billiton's $38.6 billion hostile offer. Potash has said ever since BHP...

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Potash not Considering Large Stake Sale

15.09.2010 - Fertilizer company Potash is not considering a large stake sale to a third party or long-term production sharing agreements as serious options to block a sale to BHP Billiton...

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Potash Holds Talks With Sinochem

24.08.2010 - Potash has held discussions with China's Sinochem, said a source close to the matter on Monday, as the Canadian fertilizer producer looks for options to BHP Billiton's $38.6...