On July 19, 2011, Aon announced that it bought Westfield Financial Corp., the owner of insurance-industry consulting firm Ward Financial Group, from Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Toshiba Corp. announced on May 16, 2011, it has agreed to acquire all shares of the Swiss-based advanced-power-meter maker Landis + Gyr for $ 2. 3 billion.

On or about December 20, 2011, Exxon Mobil Corp., a New Jersey petroleum company, via its subsidiary XTO Energy, acquired 20, 056 acres of Monroe County Utica Shale gas leases from Beck Energy.

In a January 16, 2011 news story featured in the online edition of the Peoria Journal Star, Associated Press reporter Tammy Webber reported that the oxbow lake, surrounded by a Superfund site, is polluted by high levels of metals such as zinc, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and chromium because of activity there by the smelting for the automotive and appliance industries, chiefly by ExxonMobil and CBS Corp ..

In 2011 14-year old, Michael Berdon ( Nesconset ,) the seventh great-grandson of Jacob Conklin, restored the 257-year old cemetery and laid a brick path approach to the gravesite with the assistance of the Nicolock Corp. ( Lindenhust ), Splendor Landscaping and Masonry ( Commack ) and Charles Dolon, the chairman of Cablevision Corp.

In January 2011, an open letter printed in the Wall Street Journal on the UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day from 400 rabbis, including the leaders of all main branches of Judaism in the US, called on Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corp, to sanction Fox News commentator Glenn Beck due to his use of the Holocaust to " discredit any individual or organization you disagree with.

According to the Jerusalem Post on December 23, 2011 the US Justice Department announced that it had reached a settlement with Kaman Corp. which allegedly substituted a fuse in four lots of fuses made for the bombs.

In April 2011, Blockbuster's landlords objected to its assumption of leases that it seek to assign to soon-to-be-owner Dish Network Corp., saying among other things, they did not have adequate assurance that the new owner would honor those leases.

On March 11, 2011, Valero announced that it had agreed to a major European purchase from Chevron Corp. for $ 730 million in cash, not including working capital that will be determined at closing.

In January 2011, Buyer became a lobbyist for McKesson Corp., despite being in a ' cooling off ' period which prevents congressman from certain types of lobbying for at least a year after retirement from congress.

On 11 July 2011, Dyke wrote in the Financial Times that " from the moment it was revealed that the News of the World had hacked into Milly Dowler's phone, Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy the 60. 9 per cent of British Sky Broadcasting that News Corp does not already own was all but over.

On October 1, 2011, Ricoh acquired all shares of Pentax Imaging Corp. and renamed the new subsidiary Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.

Larry Reilly, president of Central Vermont Public Service Corp., Vermont's largest utility, stated in 2011 that he was untroubled by the prospect of closure.

The military junta that overthrew Thaksin, later tried unsuccessfully to force Temasek to divest a large part of its investment in Shin Corp. As of 2011, Temasak still effectively controls the majority of share in Shin Corporation which changed its name to Intouch Corporation via its affiliates.

( Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission ) A June 2011 case casts doubt upon whether this category exists any more, or if it has been folded into the main category of speech.

in 2011, Minkow started serving a 5 year federal prison sentence for securities fraud after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to damage Lennar Corp. by attacking the Miami-based home builder in reports he acknowledged were filled with falsehoods ..

In 2011, the building was sold to Quadrangle Development Corp. for $ 167. 5 million.

Prior to joining Quadrangle in January 2011, Felsher was the Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer-Worldwide of Grey Global Group Inc. Felsher is a director of NTELOS Holding Corp. and Lumos Networks Corp., as well as a number of private corporations.

In December 2011, Eldorado Gold Corp. agreed to buy European Goldfields Ltd. for about C $ 2. 5 billion ($ 2. 4 billion ) in what would be its biggest acquisition.

Although the company was allowed to resume marketing its Medicare products in August 2011, on January 6, 2012, the company agreed to sell its Medicare stand-alone Prescription Drug Plan ( PDP ) business to CVS Caremark Corp. ( CVS ) for about $ 160 million in cash.

In September 2011, McIntyre was appointed to the board of directors of Augen Gold Corp. which was shortly acquired by Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc. in November 2011.

In October 2011, McIntyre was appointed to the board of directors of Southeast Asia Mining Corp. and later resigned in May 2012.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

After being released by the Panthers, the Saints acquired " Original Panther " John Kasay, who had an excellent 2011 season in New Orleans.

In October 2011, the Canadian Federal Government licensed the CANDU design to Candu Energy ( a wholly owned subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin ), which also acquired the former reactor development and marketing division of AECL at that time.

In July 2011, Drexel acquired The Academy of Natural Sciences.

* 2011: Quidsi. com, parent company of Diapers. com, acquired by Amazon. com for $ 500 million in cash plus $ 45 million in debt and other obligations.

In April 2011, The Peel Group acquired a controlling 71 % interest in The Pinewood Studios Group ( the owner of Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios ) for £ 96 million.

On July 26, 2012, the HBC revealed that it will close in 2013 the majority of the Zellers stores that were not acquired by Target Canada in 2011.

* On March 1, 2011, Rovi acquired SideReel.

* On May 5, 2011, Rovi acquired DigiForge.

Flixster including Rotten Tomatoes was acquired by Warner Bros. in May 2011.

In June 2011, Replay Games announced on their blog that they had acquired a license for the Leisure Suit Larry series.

2011 – Quest acquired BakBone Software, e-DMZ, RemoteScan, Symlabs, ChangeBASE, VKernel and BiTKOO.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network acquired the rights to the documentary and debuted it on May 10, 2011.

By June 2011, the video had acquired over a million views, although no release date for the album has been set.

The series acquired FIA International status for the 2011 series and it became known as the International V8 Supercars Championship.

In 2011, the trademark for " Captain Kangaroo " was acquired by The Cashin Comedy Co.

On October 3, 2011, the company was acquired by Level 3 Communications.

In 2011 the NGV celebrated its 150th birthday and acquired a highly important masterpiece by Correggio, one of the most influential figures of the Italian High Renaissance.

In 2011 market shares were divided between Hughes Christensen, Smith Bits ( recently acquired by Schlumberger ), REEDHycalog ( acquired by NOV in 2008 ), Security-DBS ( now Halliburton Drill Bits and Services ) HDBS, and smaller companies such as Tercel Bits, Drilformance, VIPER BITS, DOWDCO, Varel, TSK, PDC Logis, Focusrocbit, Sam ( AOE ), Walker-Mcdonald et al., Ulterra, Lone Star Drill Bits, OTS, and Shear Bits Ltd. making up the rest.

Attachmate acquired Novell in April 2011.

A week later on December 14, 2011, the Hornets agreed to a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers that would send Paul to Los Angeles in exchange for Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu, and a first-round draft pick acquired by the Clippers from a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2004.

On June 30, 2011, the team acquired small forward Omri Casspi and a lottery-protected first-round draft pick from the Sacramento Kings for forward J. J. Hickson.

During the 2011 draft, the Jazz had two lottery picks ( one acquired in the trade that sent Williams to the New Jersey Nets ), and used them on Enes Kanter and Alec Burks.

On December 14, 2011 they traded Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu and Minnesota's 2012 first round pick acquired in 2005 for New Orleans Hornets ' four-time all-star Chris Paul.