Bumble Bee buys two food companies for $138 million
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Bumble Bee Seafoods, the canned tuna producer acquired by Connors Bros. Income Fund earlier this year, agreed Wednesday to buy Castleberry/Snow&#39;s Brands and Sara Lee Corp.
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Topps Co., maker of baseball trading  cards and Bazooka gum, said on Tuesday it would be acquired by  an investment firm run by former Walt Disney Co. chief Michael  Eisner and private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners for  $385 million.
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Wm Wrigley Jr Co (WWY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is buying the Life Savers and Altoids candy and mint businesses from Kraft Foods Inc.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group  plans to buy Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., known for its Vlasic pickles brand, for about $2.16 billion, the companies said on Monday.
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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. said Monday that it&#39;s getting into the candy business via a $1.48 billion acquisition of the Life Savers and Altoids brands, among others, from Kraft Foods Inc.
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Nestle SA, the world's largest foodmaker, may buy baby-food company Gerber Products from Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG for as much as $5 billion, according to a published report.
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Premier Foods, the owner of brands such as Branston sauces and Ambrosia, agrees to buy rival RHM for Â£1.2bn.
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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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Two venture capital firms have bought Captain D's, the nation's second-largest.   The price wasn't disclosed, but officials say the two firms, Maryland-based Grotech Capital Group and Charlesbank Capital Partners, have arranged for 100 (m) million dollars in financing.
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Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the world&#39;s largest gum maker, agreed to buy brands including Altoids mints and Life Savers for $1.48 billion from Kraft Foods Inc.
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Premier Foods has snapped up two iconic food brands in a Â£70m ($134.3m) deal with US giant Kraft Foods. Seventies favourites Bird&#39;s Custard and Angel Delight will join Premiers&#39; portfolio, which includes Typhoo Tea.
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Kraft and Wrigley make a minty-fresh deal.
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The Northfield-based food giant has put its Altoids mints and Life Savers candy brands up for sale, according to a company source.
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The people food firm is boosting sales growth by acquiring pet food brands.
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Food giant AB Foods agrees to buy the Patak's Indian food business from its founding family for an undisclosed sum.
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San Miguel, the largest food and beverage maker in the Philippines, said Thursday that it had agreed to buy National Foods, Australia&#39;s biggest dairy company, for 1.78 billion Australian dollars, or $1.4 billion, raising the prospect of a bidding war with
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Premier Foods, the owner of brands such as Branston Pickle and Ambrosia Creamed Rice, buys RHM for Â£1.2bn.