Nestle held merger talks with PepsiCo: WSJ
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Nestle , the world's largest food company, held merger talks with U.S. snacks and drinks conglomerate PepsiCo  earlier this year, but the project ran aground due to a number of complications, the Wall Street Journal Europe reported on Thursday.
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Dow Jones & Co., which has been in  talks for a takeover by News Corp., will meet with supermarket  magnate Ron Burkle as Dow Jones explores its options, a source  familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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PepsiCo Inc. on Monday agreed to buy General Mills Inc.&#39;s 40.5 percent stake in a European joint venture between the two food giants for $750 million.
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Merger talks between Federated  Department Stores Inc. FD.N and May Department Stores Co.  MAY.N broke down after the two companies could not agree on  the price Federated would pay for May, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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General Electric Co.  and Microsoft Corp.  discussed joining forces for a competing bid for Dow Jones & Co.  in recent weeks, but the idea was abandoned, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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The New York Times Co. board of  directors met with leading shareholders in late February, a  spokeswoman of the paper confirmed on Monday, amid a fight to  cut the Sulzberger family's long-standing control of the  company.
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Nestle SA completed its $2.5 billion takeover of Novartis Medical Nutrition, the food and drinks giant said Monday.
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The family that controls Dow Jones &  Co.  said it will meet with News Corp. (NWSa.N) to  discuss its $5 billion bid for the company, bringing the  publisher of The Wall Street Journal a step closer to a sale.
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PepsiCo Inc. (PEP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will pay $750 million for General Mills Inc.&#39;s (GIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) 40.5 percent stake in their Snack Ventures Europe joint venture, the companies said on Monday.
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InBev  shares were up more than 6 percent on talk about a report in Brazillian newspaper Valor Economico that the brewer was in merger talks with Anheuser-Busch , traders said.
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PepsiCo Inc. (PEP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s No. 2 soft drink company, on Wednesday reaffirmed its 2004 profit forecast and named former Kraft Foods Inc.
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The future of Perrier in France was in doubt again Tuesday after its parent company Nestle SA rejected a compromise with union leaders over job cuts, saying it did not go far enough.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ:NYSE - news - research) reportedly is negotiating to buy Guidant (GDT:NYSE - news - research) for $24 billion, a transaction that would unite two big manufacturers of coronary devices.
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PepsiCo Inc., the nation's second biggest soft drink company, and an affiliated Midwest-based beverage bottler are paying $542 million for an 80 percent stake in a Ukraine-based juice company.
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PepsiCo. Inc., the world&#39;s No. 2 soft- drink maker, plans to buy General Mills Inc.&#39;s 40.5 percent stake in their European snacks joint venture for $750 million in cash.
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Health care and consumer products maker Johnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is in negotiations to acquire medical-device maker Guidant Corp.
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Switzerland's Nestle  bought  U.S. weight-loss company Jenny Craig for around $600 million,  it said on Monday, expanding its high-margin nutrition and  health business.