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A Meaty Deal: JBS To Acquire Sara Lee?
Yet another food deal is in the making! JBS SA, a Brazilian (NYSE:EWZ) meat-processing company, is currently in takeover talks with Sara Lee (NYSE:SLE), the familiar processed-foods producer. While...
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4 Financial Stock Stories to Kick Off the Trading Week
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS): Current price $162.34 Goldman Sachs will participate in Alibaba Group’s $8 billion loan with $500 million in financing, as the Chinese e-commerce major gets ready for a...
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After being booted off the S&P 500 index and taking billions of dollars from the federal government, General Motors (NYSE:GM) and American International Group (NYSE:AIG) will rejoin their former...
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4 Merger and Acquisitions Stock Stories Creating a Buzz Thursday
H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ): Current price $72.45 A proposed takeover of the organic baby vendor Rafferty’s Garden by H.J. Heinz has been disallowed by Australia’s competition regulator, over fears...
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Heinz Shakes Up Its Board After Buffett Acquisition
The board of H.J. Heinz Co. (NYSE:HNZ) is undergoing a big shake-up, with 11 of the company’s executives leaving. The move comes a month after Heinz was purchased by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire...
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Heinz Bleeds Red: 600 Job Cuts Follow Acquisition
HJ Heinz Co is bleeding red again as it announces its plans to cut 600 office jobs in the U.S. and Canada. The Pittsburgh-based ketchup maker first announced its acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway Inc...
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Analyst: Put Your Fries in Burger King’s Basket, Not McDonald’s
Differing menu strategies will soon set McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) and Burger King (NYSE:BKW) further apart — but now one analyst is betting on the future of the latter rather than the former. As the two...
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The Cuts Keep Coming at Heinz
The staff cuts keep coming at H.J. Heinz Co., which was recently acquired by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRKB) and private equity firm 3G Capital. On top of the 600 corporate...
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Will Warren Buffett Find Campbell Mmm Mmm Good for Investing?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis_goedegebuure/ Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE:CPB) is whetting acquirers’ appetites. Speculation has increased in December that the iconic company is in a position...
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Buffett, Berkshire, and ‘Big Chunks of Earning Power’
source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/imosaad/ Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRKA)(NYSE:BRKB), the conglomerate holding company run by Warren Buffett, spent $18 billion on two large acquisitions in...
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