Whole Foods to buy Wild Oats for $565 million
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - Whole Foods Market Inc.  said on Wednesday it will buy smaller rival Wild Oats Markets Inc.  for about $565 million to compete better with larger traditional grocers, which are increasingly encroaching into its organic and prepared foods niches.
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01/10/2004 The Big G cereal division of General Mills, known for Cheerios, Wheaties and Trix cereals, is announcing it will become the first leading food company to make all of its breakfast cereals with whole grain, providing Americans with more than 1.5
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NEW YORK  - Americans should bulk up on whole grains like oatmeal, barley and brown rice to help lower their risk of clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes, according to researchers.
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General Mills Inc. GIS.N, the No. 2  U.S. cereal maker behind Kellogg Co. K.N, on Thursday said  all its breakfast cereals would now be made with whole grain as  it seeks to promote healthy eating habits.
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Whole Foods Market said that it closed its acquisition of Wild Oats Markets, after months of delays as federal antitrust authorities sought to block the deal.
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Stocks to watch on Monday: WHOLE FOODS MARKET INC. :
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Whole Foods Market Inc.  and Wild Oats Markets Inc.  said on Tuesday that they would challenge U.S. anti-competition regulators that plan to file a lawsuit aimed at blocking the supermarket chains' proposed merger.
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Nestle , the world's largest food group, is buying the medical nutrition business of Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG  for $2.525 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
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Business & money: Â· Wild Oats' online critic unmasked as rival's chiefÂ· Consumer agency lawsuit threatens $565m merger
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General Mills Inc. GIS.N on  Monday said it would sell an $835 million stake in its cereal  unit to a private equity group and use the money to buy back  part of Diageo Plc's DGE.L 20 percent interest in the  company.
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United Natural Foods Inc.  on Tuesday said quarterly profit rose as sales jumped after it regained its deal to be the primary distributor to Wild Oats Markets Inc. .
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Hormel Foods (HRL :NYSE - news - research) said Thursday that it has acquired Clougherty Packing for $186 million. The Austin, Minn.
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An appeals court yesterday removed the final obstacle standing in the way of a merger between Whole Foods and Wild Oats, setting the stage for the nation's two largest sellers of organic and natural foods to combine operations.
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Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. purchased Northland Cranberries Inc.'s processing plant and inventory for $28 million in cash to bolster its manufacturing and ingredient business.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - Agriculture products company  Monsanto Co. MON.N on Monday said it will buy vegetable and  fruit seed company Seminis Inc. for about $1 billion in a move  to capitalize on the trend toward healthier diets and enhance  its portfolio of seed operations.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc , the conglomerate headed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, said on Tuesday it planned to buy 60 percent of manufacturing and services group Marmon Holdings Inc. for $4.5 billion.
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U.S. antitrust authorities said on Tuesday they would file suit to block Whole Foods Market Inc.'s  proposed acquisition of rival Wild Oats Markets Inc.  on grounds that the deal would hobble competition in the market for natural and organic groceries.