The Belgo-German company AGFA-GEVAERT that has just announced 4000 job losses throughout the world in the near future (including 750 in Flanders in Belgium) has made three large-scale merger and acquisitions deals. The first is the acquisition of US desktop pre-press systems company AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL ($81 million turnover in last financial year, 370 employees) into the US subsidiary AGFA CORPORATION. The group will be launching a bid for all the ordinary shares in...