Carlyle to buy vitamin maker NBTY for $3.8 billion
Private-equity firm Carlyle Group has agreed to buy vitamin and nutritional supplements maker NBTY Inc. for $3.8 billion, in what would be the year's largest transaction to take a public company private.
New York private equity firm Carlyle has made a return to European dealmaking with a bid for a majority stake in Giannoni France, a Brittany-based manufacturer of heat exchangers for boilers.