(Adds Vivendi, Sonatrach)
April 30 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Tuesday:
** Unilever
ULVR.L
UNc.AS
plans to pay up to $5.4 billion to raise its stake in its Indian subsidiary, making its biggest deal in 13 years a huge bet on the strength of demand for personal care and food products in Asia's third-largest economy.
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** U.S. retailer Best Buy Co Inc
BBY.N
retreated from its ill-fated European expansion on Tuesday by selling its stake in a joint venture to Carphone Warehouse Group
CPW.L
for less than half what it paid five years ago.
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** Bahrain-based private equity firm Investcorp
INBSCS.UL
agreed a sale of its German insulation firm Armacell
INBSCE.UL
to Charterhouse Capital Partners
CHCAP.UL
for over 500 million euros ($655 million), it said on Tuesday.
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** Spain's Telefonica
TEF.MC
is selling 40 percent of its Central American business to Guatemalan-based Corporacion Multi Inversiones for $500 million in a drive to cut debt while keeping control of assets with potential to grow.
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** UniCredit's
CRDI.MI
Romania unit said on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy the local retail operations of RBS
RBS.L
- about 315 million euros ($413 million) in assets - for an undisclosed amount.
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** Private equity firm Baring Asia is in advanced talks with the Indian arm of French cement maker Lafarge SA
LAFP.PA
to invest about $240 million for a minority stake, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
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** Genetic testing specialist Qiagen NV
QGEN.DE
said it bought privately held U.S. software developer Ingenuity Systems Inc for $105 million to expand further into genetic sequencing technology.
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** Japan's Fujitsu Ltd
6702.T
is in late-stage talks to sell its microcontroller chip business to Spansion Inc
CODE.N
- a deal that will broaden the U.S. semiconductor company product line-up so it can better cater to automotive clients, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
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** Serbia's finance ministry said the deadline was extended to 4 p.m. (1400 GMT) on May 31 for bidding for indebted state-run drugmaker Galenika Pharmaceuticals. It was the third extension since offers were invited on Jan. 14 for the company, with the U.S.-based unit of Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International
VRX.TO
the only potential partner so far.
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** Vivendi
VIV.PA
said it would consider a public listing of its French telecom operator SFR as part of its plan to reduce exposure to the capital-intensive unit in favor of its media businesses.
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** Algerian state energy firm Sonatrach is in talks to buy a stake in Mozambique offshore gas projects operated by Italy's Eni
ENI.MI
and Anadarko Petroleum Corp
APC.N
, its chief executive was quoted as saying.
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(Compiled by Vrinda Manocha in Bangalore)
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Keywords: DEALS DAY/