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Flexport, a San Francisco-based startup that arranges international freight shipments for small- and midsize companies, has raised $65 million in venture-capital funding to back a global expansion.

Aldi reports record sales for 2015 in the UK and Ireland and says it will invest £300m in store revamps, but profits have been hit by the supermarket price war.

Coca-Cola Femsa, the largest public bottler of Coca-Cola products in the world by volume, said its Brazilian subsidiary has agreed to acquire Vonpar, one of the largest privately owned bottlers in the country’s Coca-Cola system.

Pfizer Inc. decided not to split in two separate companies, opting against what could have been one of the biggest breakups in the drug industry’s history after four years of what it called an “extensive evaluation.”

FreshDirect said on Monday it had raised $189 million in a round led by JPMorgan Asset Management, as it seeks to expand its geographic footprint.

Amazon is now second only to Walmart in terms of overall apparel market share.

Airbnb Inc. has held a first close on its massive new funding round, Fortune has learned from multiple sources.

Credo Brands Marketing’s promoters plan to sell their stake in a deal that values the firm at Rs600 crore

Move comes in advance of full-year results next week

There comes a time when even Jann Wenner needs a little help from his friends.

Two years ago New York Post media reporter Claire Atkinson revealed that Liberty Media planned to buy Formula One auto racing from its controlling shareholder the private equity firm CVC so there shouldn’t have been any surprise when it finally announced the deal earlier in September. However, the majority of [...]

Plunging crop and fertilizer prices make it a good time to merge with farm suppliers, Agrium CEO Chuck Magro said, while pitching the $26B union with Potash Corp