Altria Preparing for Possible Split-Up
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Altria Group Inc. (MO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has begun preparing itself for a possible break-up to gain fuller market value for its businesses, its chief executive
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Management changes might make this a good value play.
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Altria's  planned split into separate U.S. and international tobacco companies will lift the company's stock even though investors' reaction has been only lukewarm, financial newspaper Barron's said in its September 17 edition.
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For the past year, Interland has been in transition. In 2005, the company is looking for growth.
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Shares of Altria Group Inc.  rose 1.5 percent before the bell on Thursday.
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- Altria Group Inc.  said it plans to move its U.S.-based cigarette production for non-U.S. markets to its facilities in Europe and will close its Cabarrus, North Carolina manufacturing facility by the end of 2010.
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Altria, the owner of food company Kraft and the world&#39;s biggest cigarette maker Philip Morris, may split itself up to help limit the effect of legal battles.
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Altria&#39;s  planned split into  separate U.S. and international tobacco companies will lift the  company&#39;s stock even though investors&#39; reaction has been only  lukewarm, financial newspaper Barron&#39;s said in its September 17  edition.
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NEW YORK -- Altria Group said Wednesday it would spin off its international tobacco business on March 28, freeing it to pursue cigarette sales more aggressively outside the U.S. by separating it from its American counterpart.
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Investors might want to wait a while as this company digests its large acquisition.
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Officials of embattled Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. yesterday moved to squelch speculation that its Boston money management firm, Putnam Investments, will be divorced from its corporate parent, either in a sale to an outside buyer or through a private buyout engineered by Putnam executives.
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The company is moving along a dual track -- growth through acquisitions and organic efforts.
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Business & money: Owner outlines his strategy to revive label in face of growing opposition to plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs
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The Altria Group, the cigarette maker, will close a North Carolina factory and increase European production to save $335 million a year by 2011. The shutdown of the plant in Cabarrus County will result in a one-time charge of $325 million in the second quarter, Altria said. The company, which is based in New York, may be preparing to spin off its international unit, analysts and investors said. Factories in Europe will take over production of Marlboros and other cigarettes bound for Japan and the Middle East, which are currently being made in North Carolina. All of Altriaâs United States output will be shifted to Richmond, Va. Closing the North Carolina facility, which employs 2,500, will cost about 10 cents a share in the second quarter, Altria said. Expenses will total $670 million by 2011.
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CHICAGO Interpublic Group has a history of merging agencies, whether it be big players like last year&#39;s merger of Draft and Foote, Cone & Belding, or smaller properties, like Atlanta shops Austin Kelley and Fitzgerald + Co. in 2005. Sometimes, like in the combination of Ammirati Puris Lintas and Lowe, the road is rough. Other transitions go more smoothly.
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The chief executive of the Altria Group, Louis C. Camilleri, said yesterday that the company might split into two or three independent entities.