Aug 8 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 1400 GMT on Wednesday. (For Reuters columns on deals, click on [DEALTALK])
** Eurazeo is to buy Elis, a provider of hygiene and textile cleaning services, in a deal that gives it an enterprise value of 2.28 billion euros ($3.14 billion), the French investment group said.
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** Swiss hearing-aid maker Sonova called off its $2.8 billion takeover of rival ReSound from Denmark's GN Store Nord after a German court upheld a block from anti-trust authorities. [nL07874568]
** Jones Apparel Group Inc. said it agreed to sell its Barneys New York chain to Istithmar for a sweetened price of $942.3 million after the Dubai-owned firm raised its offer in the face of a rival bid from Japan's Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. . [nN08322666]
** Russian state-controlled oil firm Rosneft ROSN.NMM won on a state-forced auction of transport assets of bankrupt firm YUKOS YUKO.RTS paying $729 million for the lot, or only a notch above the starting price. [nL08673628]
** Ukraine will sell its leading chemicals producer this year, Finance Minister Mykola Azarov said on Wednesday, with a starting price of 2.5 billion hryvnias ($500 million) and hopes for several times that figure. [L08639374]
** U.S. hedge fund Steel Partners pushed ahead with its $260 million bid for Bull-Dog Sauce Co. , recasting its offer to try to by-pass a 'poison pill' defence that was heavily backed by the Japanese sauce maker's shareholders. [nT263718]
** Middle East investors moved to buy Malaysian builder Putrajaya Perdana for $114 million in a deal that highlighted an increasing flow of Middle East investment into listed Malaysian businesses. [nKLR187423]
** British adult entertainment business Interactive World Plc ITW.L has paid 50 million pounds ($101.5 million) to buy the Daily and Sunday Sport tabloid newspapers to bolster its multimedia assets. [nL08450462]
** U.S. power company Dominion Resources Inc. said it would sell its Dresden Energy electric generation facility in Ohio to AEP Generating Company, a unit of American Electric Power Co. Inc. , for $85 million. [nWNAS0884]
** For-profit education company Apollo Group Inc. said it would acquire online advertising network Aptimus Inc. APTM.O for about $48 million, or $6.25 per share, in cash to improve management of student inquiries and enrollments. [nWNAS0710]
** Highland Gold Mining Ltd. , Russia's fourth-largest gold miner said it had agreed to sell its Darasun unit, based in the Chita region, to private mining company Yuzhuralzoloto for $25 million. [nL0898410]
** Cera and KBC Ancora said that they had raised their stake in Belgian banking and insurance group KBC to more than 30 percent. [nBRE001079]
** French bank Societe Generale said it had reached a final agreement to merge its Fimat division with the futures and options brokerage Calyon Financial. [nL08553596]
** The investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, Basel, denied that it or its owner were building up a stake in German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp . [nL08376221]
** Italian telecoms operator Telecom Italia is not considering buying German mobile phone and Internet group freenet AG , a Telecom Italia spokesman said. [nMAT007126]
** The London Stock Exchange plans to complete the purchase of Milan's Borsa Italiana in October after winning shareholder approval on Wednesday. [nL08933988]
** Publisher Hearst Corp. said it will buy Kaboodle Inc., a Web site where shoppers can network and make recommendations on products. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. [nN08359139]
** Shares in Taiwan's E-Ton Solar rose after it was announced that a unit would form a joint venture with U.S.-based Spire Corp. to break into the U.S. solar market. [nTP95077]
** Kuwait's Tamdeen Investment Co. , the second largest shareholder of Ahli United Bank AUBB.BH AUBB.KW, rejected an offer by International Bank of Qatar to buy into Bahrain's biggest lender. [nL08931785]
** Hidary Group Acquisitions LLC said it agreed to terminate the merger deal with boxing brand Everlast Worldwide Inc. EVST.O in connection with a lawsuit settlement. [nWNAS0754]
** U.S. mining company Oxbow Carbon & Minerals won permission from the European Commission to buy Dutch solid fuel shipper SSM Coal B.V. [nBRU005885]
** Turkey's banking regulator has blocked the sale of a 50 percent stake in Alternatifbank ALNTF.IS to Greece's Alpha Bank , it said. [nL08873938]
** China's Ministry of Commerce has granted a unit of Goldman Sachs approval to buy a stake in Chinese measuring tool maker Chengdu Yangzhiguang Industrial Co. in a deal worth at least $32 million, the Chinese company said. [nSHA82091] (Compiled by Tina Kwan in Singapore, Nachiket Kelkar and Ramya Dilip in Bangalore)