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Deal round-up: ArcelorMittal, Ametek, Pep Boys, RiteAid

here. Ametek has bought Reading Alloys' Robesonia, Berks County, $80-million-a-year titanium powder plant from Chicago investor Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC and managers for an undisclosed sum. Story

Centric Alloys Corp. of Doylestown is drawing up plans for a suburban Philadelphia warehouse after landing a U.S. nickel-alloy bar and wire-rod sales and distribution contract with ArcelorMittal Corp., the world's largest steelmaker, says Centric CEO Michael Walsh.  "We look forward to having our company-owned and -managed facility in Bucks County," Walsh said this morning. Release here
  Ametek has bought Reading Alloys' Robesonia, Berks County, $80-million-a-year titanium powder plant from Chicago investor Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC and managers for an undisclosed sum. Story here .
  Pep Boys sells and leases back more stores (23, for $74.3 million up front). Brief story here
  Rite-Aid's lower-than-expected sales projection last week, following last quarter's drop at newly-acquired former Eckerd stores, shows the chain pharmacy business "is not recession proof. Customers' spending has slowed in the face of higher fuel and food prices," says Gimme Credit analyst Kim Noland in a report to clients today. Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs have cut their price targets for the stock to below $3 a share.