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99designs, a crowd-sourced graphic design marketplace with offices in San Francisco and Australia, has acquired German rival 12designer. No financial terms were disclosed. 99designs last year raised $35 million from Accel Partners. www.99designs.com

Ansell Ltd. (ASX: ANN) has agreed to acquire Comasec SAS, a French maker of gloves. The deal is valued at approximately $126 million.

The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) has agreed to acquire U.S. Home Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: USHS), an Irving, Texas-based provider of kitchen and bath refacing products and services. The deal is valued at around $93.4 million, or $12.50 per share. www.homedepot.com

CME Group (Nasdaq: CME) has acquired Pivot Inc., a Jersey City, N.J.-based provider of instant messaging and liquidity management software for trading professionals. No financial terms were disclosed. Pivot had raised over $8 million in VC funding from firms like DFJ Gotham, Boldcap Ventures, EPIC Ventures, Hudson Ventures and SoftBank Capital. www.pivotinc.com

Madison Dearborn Partners has completed its previously-announced sale of vegetable-juice maker Bolthouse Farms to Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB) for $1.55 billion in cash. www.mdcp.com

Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), has acquired sports media website Bleacher Report. The deal is worth just over $200 million, including around $20 million of Bleacher Report cash on hand. Bleacher Report had raised around $40 million in VC funding from firms like SoftTech VC, Hillsven Capital, Transcoast Capital, Crosslink Capital and Oak Investment Partners. www.bleacherreport.com

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