Smithfield Foods plans private note offer
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Hog and pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc.(SFD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it plans a private offering to sell about $150 million worth of senior notes due 2011.
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Sara Lee Corp.  on Tuesday said  it has entered into an agreement to sell its European meats  business to Smithfield Foods Inc.  for &#36;575 million in  cash and the assumption of &#36;39 million in pension and other  liabilities.
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At least two bidding  groups plan to submit offers on Friday to acquire Cadbury  Schweppes Plc&#39;s  U.S. beverage unit for as much as  $15.8 billion (8 billion pounds), sources familiar with the  situation said on Tuesday.
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Smithfield Foods Inc. , the largest U.S. pork company and a major beef producer, on Thursday reported lower quarterly earnings.
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Smithfield Foods offered up a surprise in its earnings conference call.
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Top U.S. hog and pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc.  reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday due to a weak market for fresh meat and higher hog production costs.
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Smiths, the aerospace and defence group, is to snap up one of the world&#39;s leading medical device companies in a $925 million (Â£476 million) deal, it confirmed today.
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US meat processor Smithfield Foods has reported higher second-quarter earnings, as higher hog prices offset lower pork margins and a loss in its beef operations.
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Bruce Wasserstein, who runs Lazard, the private investment bank, is developing a plan to take the company public, according to executives.
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HONG KONG (CBS.MW) -- The board of Big Food Group (UK:BFP) said it has recommended a 95 pence a share offer made by the Giant BidCo consortium to shareholders.
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Smiths Group is to buy Medex, a US healthcare company, for $925m (Â£477m), including $300m of debt, in the biggest deal for the UK engineering conglomerate since the merger of Smiths and TI Group in 2000.
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SYDNEY : South African-based Metcash Trading Ltd announced it intended to make an 846 million dollars (660 million US) off-market takeover offer for the Australian operations of Foodland Associated Ltd.
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Multiplex Group, Westfield Group and the billionaire brothers Simon and David Reuben lodged a formal 585 million-pound ($1.05 billion) cash offer for Chelsfield Plc, meeting a deadline to win support from the company&#39;s owners.
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Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the largest US hog and pork producer, on Tuesday reported higher fiscal second-quarter profit due to strong hog prices and the acquisition last year of Farmland Foods.
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U.S. hog and pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc.  said on Friday China has shown more interest in buying its pork, which probably was the reason the company's shares sped to a two-year high.
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US food giant Kraft Foods is reported to be considering the sale of its Altoids breath mints and Life Savers confectionery brands.
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LONDON (AFX) - Smiths Group PLC, the UK aerospace-to-medical-products maker, is in advanced talks to buy US healthcare group Medex for close to 1 bln usd (517 mln stg) the Sunday Telegraph reported without citing its source.