Nestle held merger talks with PepsiCo: report
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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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Delta Air Lines Inc  has started merger talks with UAL Corp.'s  United Airlines and Northwest Airlines Corp. , and hopes to negotiate an agreement with one of them in the next two weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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NATIONAL Foods, which is fighting off a $1.6 billion takeover bid by New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra, said yesterday it had been in talks with food ingredients group Burns, Philp and Co during the past six months.
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Nestle Waters France, a subsidiary of Swiss food giant Nestle, later confirmed in a statement that it was prepared to renew contacts with union leaders on holding on to Perrier provided they dropped their ...
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MELBOURNE: Australian dairy group National Foods Ltd said yesterday it is continuing merger talks with SPC Ardmona despite becoming a takeover target itself.
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United Airlines and Continental Airlines have been holding talks on a potential merger, people involved in the negotiations said.
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Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, will buy the medical nutrition unit of pharmaceutical company Novartis for $2.5 billion, the companies said Thursday.
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Delta Air Lines Inc  has started merger talks with Northwest Airlines Corp  and United Airlines parent UAL Corp , and hopes to reach an agreement with one of them over the next two weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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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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Swiss food giant Nestle said on Monday that it had completed its 5.5 billion dollar (4.1 billion euros) takeover of Gerber, the biggest baby food maker in the United States.
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Sprint, the No. 3 US mobile- phone company, and Nextel Communications are in early talks about a possible merger, people familiar with the matter said.
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Coca-Cola said it agreed to buy Fuze Beverage to add more juice, tea and energy drinks in an effort to catch up with PepsiCo.
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A Qatari investment fund, the Delta Fund, said it was talking with J Sainsbury, the British supermarket operator, about a takeover, the second bid this year for Sainsbury. Delta, which already holds a 25 percent stake in the grocer, said it was in preliminary talks to buy the rest. Sainsbury confirmed it had received an offer, but neither side disclosed a price. Earlier this year the company fended off a Â£10.1 billion ($20.6 billion) bid from a group of buyout funds.
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PepsiCo Inc., the world&#39;s second-largest carbonated soft-drink maker, reaffirmed its outlook for 2005 Thursday after rival Coca-Cola Co.
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Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, reported an 11 percent rise in first-half net profit Wednesday thanks to cost cutting and internal growth and despite higher raw material prices.
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Federated Department Stores Inc. is in talks about buying rival May Department Stores Co. in a deal that would create a huge retailer with $30 billion in combined sales and nearly 1,000 department stores including Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Lord &#38; Taylor and Marshall Field's, a published report said Thursday.
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UAL Corp.'s  United Airlines  is in preliminary talks with Continental Airlines  about  a possible merger, according to media reports on Tuesday.