M&A News: E.ON, GDF Suez, Ardagh Group, Swatch

Noteworthy expenditures of the week
Photographs by Foodcollection/Getty Images (bottles); Photo Research/Getty Images (uranium)

1. E.ON and GDF Suez are selling their 49 percent holdings in Slovak energy company Slovensky Plynárensky Priemysel to Czech utility Energeticky a Prumyslovy Holding for $3.5 billion.

2. Luxembourg packaging business Ardagh Group will pay $1.7 billion for Saint-Gobain’s Verallia glass bottle and jar unit.