Mergers and Acquisitions
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The merger between Men's Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank, which was just approved by the Federal Trade Commission, will create the fourth-largest retailer of menswear.
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Pilgrim's Pride raised its buyout offer for Hillshire Brands to $55 a share late Monday. The offer is all cash and is valued at $7.7 billion.
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Signet Jewelers acquires Zales Corp. for $1.46 billion, despite some opposition from activist shareholders. With the merger, Signet's share of the jewelry market will now be three times larger than...
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A new report from Jefferies cites the distinct possibility that the new AT&T focus on satellite delivery and other initiatives could prove damaging to some of the top tech companies that serve as...
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The food fight has begun. Just two weeks ago, Hillshire Farms offered to buy Pinnacle Foods for $6.6 billion, sending shares of the owner of Duncan Hines Cake Mix and Birds Eye Frozen Vegetables...
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Apple announces the acquisition of music company Beats, founded by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, in a deal totaling $3 billion.
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ThinkstockCanada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE: VRX) has raised its offer for Allergan Inc. (NYSE: AGN) for the second time this week. The latest offer, announced just minutes ago includes...
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ThinkstockWhen you get the players in any possible deal in one room or area, and you get them to start talking a bit, you sometimes may get a little closer to what could actually happen down the...
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Tyson Foods, one of the nation's largest food-processing companies, has made an offer of $50 a share in cash for Hillshire Brands, trumping Tuesday's $45 a share offer from Pilgrim's Pride.
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Pfizer looks like it is out of the bid now for AstraZeneca. What looks increasingly obvious for a lackluster performance is that Pfizer may now simply be having an identity crisis.
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When Apple shares put in a new high, most of us want to know what's going on with the world's most valuable tech company. Right now, two or three things on Apple's horizon could be driving the stock...
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Pilgrim’s Pride has unveiled an unsolicited bid of about $6.4 billion to acquire food processor Hillshire Brands.
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ThinkstockEvery time the economy gets good again, and every time the stock market gets high again, waves of mergers and acquisitions begin taking place. The stock market’s bull run is now more than...
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ThinkstockAlcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) has promised to reduce its operations to a more manageable core base of assets under its Shift Plan. Most on Wall Street and in Europe believe that this will...
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Speaking at a conference on Thursday, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai said that he would consider taking on an equity partner to share in the TV division's growth and risk, but that didn't mean the unit was for...
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