How US Paint Maker PPG Lost its $29.5 Billion Battle for Dulux

LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - In early March, U.S. paint maker PPG 's Chief Executive Michael McGarry flew from Pittsburgh to Amsterdam to take Akzo Nobel boss Ton Buechner for lunch.
There, the 59-year-old American ambushed Buechner with a takeover plan and price tag that his company had been working on for months, a source familiar with the talks told Reuters...
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