Hicks Muse Pays for ConAgra's Swift Stake
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ConAgra Foods Inc. CAG.N on Tuesday  said private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc.  exercised its option to buy the company's minority stake in  Swift Foods, and that ConAgra received $194 million in the  transaction.
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Sport: Tom Hicks and George Gillett have secured the Â£350m loan needed to begin work on a new stadium
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Lawyers say Apple likely made a substantial payment to ThinkSecretâs founder, Nick Ciarelli, who says other bloggers should be emboldened.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily November 22, 2004 - PARIS - The Texan buy-out firm Hicks Muse has snapped up Jimmy Choo, barely four weeks after the fashion forward shoe label was put on the block.
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Citigroup said it had agreed to buy Quilter Holdings, an investment manager for wealthy clients, from Morgan Stanley. Quilter, which manages Â£5.6 billion ($11 billion), will become part of Citigroupâs global wealth-management division in Europe, run by Marianne Hay, Citigroup said. Quilter has more than 18,000 clients and 300 employees in 10 offices in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands, Citigroup said. Terms were not disclosed.
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The New York Times Co shareholder Harbert  Management and its hedge-fund unit Harbinger Capital Partners  boosted their stakes in the media company's Class A stock,  according to a regulatory filing.
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Diageo has raised $2.26bn (â¬1.84bn) from the sale of 49.9 million shares of common stock held in US-based Cheerios cereal maker General Mills.
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In the best combination of tobacco &#39;n&#39; food news since Homer Simpson&#39;s tomacco, today Altria Group (NYSE: MO) and its cheesy stepchild Kraft (NYSE: KFT) both upped their dividends.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain raised money Tuesday on rival Rudy Giuliani's turf and picked up the endorsement of the former New York mayor's longtime nemesis.
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London - British drinks giant Diageo on Tuesday said it had raised $2.26 billion (R15 billion) from the sale of 49.9 million shares in US food company General Mills.
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By Darla Martin Tucker  Clatchy-Tribune Business News  Feb. 19--Scott Musgrave toyed with the notion of starting his own company for several months.
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Drinks giant Diageo today raised 2.26 billion US dollars (Â£1.27bn) after selling a further chunk of shares in Cheerios cereal maker General Mills.
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US packaged food manufacturer ConAgra Foods has reported a 10.3% fall in second-quarter earnings due to the divestment of its meat processing activities, but earnings from continuing operations rose.
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ConAgra Foods Inc., the third-largest US food company, said earnings fell to $242.3 million, or 47 cents a share, in the second quarter ended Nov. 28.
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Hicks Muse Tate Furst Inc. said Friday that it has bought a majority stake in Jimmy Choo, the British-based luxury shoe label, in a deal valued at 101 million pounds ($187 million). The Dallas buyout firm ...
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Thomas O. Hicks, who owns the Texas Rangers baseball team and Dallas Stars of the N.H.L., and Montreal Canadiens owner George N. Gillett Jr. completed a deal to buy the storied English soccer club.
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A mutual fund manager long regarded by many as an advocate for the interests of fund shareholders is expected to pay $5 million to settle charges he overcharged his own investors by nearly that amount, the Wall Street Journal