Dean Foods to pay $2 billion dividend
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Dean Foods Co.  said on Friday it would pay a special dividend of $15 per share, or about $2 billion, in a move seen as a defense against private equity firms looking to milk Dean for cash.
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State party leaders gave their backing Monday to Howard Dean in his bid to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, putting the former presidential candidate in a strong position to win the election in about two weeks.
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DALLAS ConAgra Foods will get 194 (M) million dollars for selling its minority interest in Swift Foods to Dallas-based Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst.
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Sallie Mae said on Wednesday that it  plans to sell about $2.5 billion of stock and mandatory  convertible securities to help pay off obligations linked to  the student loan company's share buyback program.
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Kraft Foods Inc. plans to buy Groupe Danone SA's biscuit unit for $7.2 billion to become Europe's largest maker of cookies.
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General Electric Co.  said on Tuesday that it was raising its quarterly dividend by 12 percent, and that it expects to report a profit of $2.17 to $2.23 per share in 2007.
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Smithfield Foods Inc. SFD.N, one of  the nation's largest meat producers, on Thursday said quarterly  earnings more than doubled due to higher hog prices and its  acquisition of Farmland Foods last year.
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MIDLAND, Mich., Sept. 14  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Dow Chemical Company , has declared a dividend of 37.5 cents per share, payable October 30, 2006, to shareholders of record on September 29, 2006.  This is the 380th consecutive cash dividend issued by Dow.
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LONDON : Drinks giant Diageo said it had raised 2.26 billion dollars (1.84 billion euros) from the sale of 49.9 million shares in US food company General Mills Inc.
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Pacific Investment Management Co is planning to launch a $2 billion distressed-debt fund, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Thursday.
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McDonald's Corp.  on Wednesday raised its annual dividend by 50 percent as part of a plan to return up to $17 billion to shareholders through 2009, sending its shares up more than 2 percent.
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By Bloomberg News  Salt Lake-based Huntsman Corp., the fifth-biggest U.S. chemical maker, declared a quarterly dividend of 10 cents a share, marking its first payout.  The dividend is payable on March 30 to shareholders of record as of March 15, Huntsman said Wednesday.
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Premier Foods PLC said Monday it will buy RHM PLC for 1.23 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) in cash and shares to create Britain's biggest food producer.
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Aramark Corp., the world&#39;s third-largest food service provider, said Tuesday that its board approved a 10 percent increase in the company&#39;s quarterly cash dividend to 5.5 cents per share, or 22 cents annually.
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RICHMOND, Va., June 20  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The board of directors of Albemarle Corporation  today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.105 per share. The dividend is payable October 1, 2007 to shareholders of record at the close of business as of September 15, 2007.
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Delta Two, a Qatar-backed investment fund, said it submitted an offer to the board of J Sainsbury that valued the company, one of Britainâs largest retailers, at about Â£10.6 billion ($21.7 billion), or 600 pence a share. It was the second cash offer this year for Sainsbury; Delta owns 25 percent of the company. The fund proposed spending Â£3.5 billion to build and renovate Sainsbury stores and expand its range of nonfood goods.
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McDonald's Corp. MCD.N on Wednesday   raised its annual dividend 49 percent to $1 a share as the   world's largest restaurant companies push to return more cash   to shareholders.