In November, it acquired package delivery startup Bufferbox.
Faced with an erosion of its core market, Novell launched an ill-fated diversification initiative, spending $1.5 billion to acquire packaged-software businesses such as WordPerfect Corporation to compete with Microsoft on the desktop.
DEALING with institutions that have taken back unsold shares from a defaulting sponsor, Coronet Properties, one of the city's largest converters, has acquired a package of 134 occupied apartments at Glen Oaks Village in Queens and is negotiating for other packages.
Dallas acquired a package of players including star big man Kristaps Porzingis and guard Tim Hardaway Jr., for a package headlined by former lottery pick Dennis Smith Jr. and two future first-rounders — including one that's unprotected — as well as veterans DeAndre Jordan and Wesley Matthews (and their expiring contracts).
Last year, JPMorgan Partners invested $200 million as part of a group that acquired the packaging division of the Huntsman Corporation.
ROHM & HAAS CO., Philadelphia, a maker of specialty chemicals, acquired a packaging adhesives business with about $10 million in yearly sales from Benjamin Moore & Co., Montvale, N.J., a paint maker.
One of the major banks in the country, Bancomer, had been nationalized and forced to divest some of its holdings, and Slim acquired a package of securities.
Each media conglomerate acquired a package of rights from FIFA that features both World Cups and Women's World Cups through 2014.
The Mariners' general manager, Pat Gillick, was the Orioles' G.M. when Benitez played there, and he had a deal worked out with the Mets in December 1999 in which he would have acquired a package of players, including Benitez, for Ken Griffey Jr.
The Wichita police acquired a package this week that could be connected to the hunt for a serial killer known as B.T.K., who had been silent for almost 25 years before sending letters to news organizations and the police earlier this year.
While at AMS, he acquired a packaging firm in China and so had seen the potential for growth in Asia.
