Nestle held merger talks with PepsiCo: report
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Nestle , the world&#39;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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Coca-Cola Co.  is in talks to buy Britain's No. 2 bottled water brand Highland Spring in a potential 500 million pound ($992.7 million) deal, British Sunday newspapers reported.
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Sprint and Nextel, two large US mobile companies, are discussing a possible $70bn merger, according to newspaper reports.
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Merger talks between May Department Stores Co. and rival Federated Department Stores Inc. reportedly have ended after the two retailers could not agree on how much Federated would pay for May.
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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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PepsiCo Inc. (PEP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will pay $750 million for General Mills Inc.&#39;s (GIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) 40.5 percent stake in their Snack Ventures Europe joint venture, the companies said on Monday.
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Brokerage group ICAP says it has held &quot;exploratory&quot; merger talks with the London Stock Exchange, but added that the discussions have since ceased.
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Dow Jones & Co. , which has been in talks for a takeover by News Corp. , will meet with supermarket magnate Ron Burkle as Dow Jones explores its options, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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The future of Perrier in France was in doubt again Tuesday after its parent company Nestle SA rejected a compromise with union leaders over job cuts, saying it did not go far enough.
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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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Switzerland's Nestle  bought  U.S. weight-loss company Jenny Craig for around $600 million,  it said on Monday, expanding its high-margin nutrition and  health business.
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DECEMBER 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Rumored merger talks between Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. yesterday were met with a &quot;no comment&quot; from Sprint.
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The French government pressured the country's second-largest trade union to resume talks with Swiss giant Nestle SA, backing a voluntary layoff plan that could avert a Perrier sell-off.
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Nextel Communications Inc. and Sprint Corp. are negotiating a possible merger, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
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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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Nestle Waters said it might sell Perrier, the iconic French mineral water, while keeping options including a mooted outsourcing on tap.
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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.