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Carlson Hotels Worldwide is looking to grow its portfolio of properties and has a new dealmaker to lead the effort. Bill Sipple was recently appointed corporate vice president of development and will focus on expanding Carlson's hotel brands through acquisitions and management contracts in major markets including New York, San... Continue reading
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BP plc said it would pay around 100 million reais ($59.8 million) for a 50% stake in Tropical BioEnergia SA, a joint venture established by Brazilian companies Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group. The Brazilian firms would each own 25% of the JV, which will focus on sugarcane production and the... Continue reading
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What deals will Kraft Foods Inc. do?The question -- which had engaged the consumer products world even before the food giant's spinoff from Altria last year -- gained new urgency this week after the Mars Inc.-Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. deal was announced. Wednesday morning the company offered a hint or two,... Continue reading
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3Com Corp. has responded to the failed $2.2 billion buyout of the company last month by Bain Capital LLC and Huawei Technologies Co. with a senior management shakeup and organizational restructuring aimed at leveraging its rapidly growing Chinese operation. The company announced on Tuesday that chief executive Edgar Masri was... Continue reading
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When the news broke Monday that Nathan's Famous Corp., the hot dog company, had sold Kenny Rogers Roasters to its Malaysian master franchiser, we knew the story bore looking into. Never mind Nelson Peltz's plans for melding Wendy's International Inc. and Arby's Restaurant Group Inc. Here was a window into... Continue reading
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Time Warner Inc. reported Wednesday that net income for the first quarter dropped to $771 million from $1.2 billion for the same period in 2007. CEO Jeffrey Bewkes has enacted two major plans to simplify the corporate structure at his New York-based entertainment and media conglomerate. At the center of... Continue reading
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Like denizens of other cities around the country, Chicagoans have been heard to express regrets as local landmark companies are bought up by out-of-town giants. As the Chicago Tribune points out, some of the company names that formerly defined the business scene in the Windy City are First Chicago, Amoco,... Continue reading
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Earlier this month, Kraft Foods Inc. brought in Michael Osanloo as executive vice president, strategy. Osanloo barely had time to unpack before news broke of the $23 billion Mars Inc.-William Wrigley Jr. Co. deal, prompting speculation about what Kraft might do in response. One possibility is a play by Kraft... Continue reading
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Mars Inc.'s $23 billion acquisition of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. will produce some big paydays for key execs at the target. Take Wrigley's dealmaker Peter Hempstead, for example. The senior vice president of worldwide strategy and new business will reap $15.94 million from the sale of his stock, according... Continue reading
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Blockbuster Inc. may be the mystery partner to film studios who plan to launch a pay-TV network, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, though a spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny the report outright. "We are very busy transforming Blockbuster into a multiplatform provider of convenient access... Continue reading
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- Yes, Time Warner will spin off cable business [Posted on April 30, 2008 at 9:32 AM]
- Chi-town welcome mat for Warren Buffett [Posted on April 29, 2008 at 5:26 PM]
- Kraft's new strategy evp arrives at an interesting moment [Posted on April 29, 2008 at 3:08 PM]
- Big payday for Wrigley execs, including strategy SVP [Posted on April 29, 2008 at 12:52 PM]
- Blockbuster to join pay-TV dance? [Posted on April 29, 2008 at 12:47 PM]
- The price of gum and other valuation vicissitudes [Posted on April 29, 2008 at 12:28 PM]
- Whirlpool JV adds to China presence [Posted on April 29, 2008 at 9:06 AM]
- Cox Enterprises buys Adify for $300M plus earnout [Posted on April 29, 2008 at 8:40 AM]
- Another sweet deal for Buffett to tout at Berkshire jamboree next week [Posted on April 28, 2008 at 5:23 PM]
- Possible partner for planned pay-TV service [Posted on April 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM]
- Public radio wars [Posted on April 28, 2008 at 12:19 PM]
- ArcelorMittal's 80-page takeover folder [Posted on April 28, 2008 at 9:57 AM]
- Integration details on J.P. Morgan Chase-Bear Stearns [Posted on April 28, 2008 at 9:35 AM]
- Yahoo! partners with Cnet, MSFT deadline looms [Posted on April 25, 2008 at 3:48 PM]
- Emerging markets insight from Conference Board panel [Posted on April 25, 2008 at 1:53 PM]
- SCA hires Sune Lundin as biz dev chief [Posted on April 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM]
- Smoother cross-border deals in a post-GAAP world? [Posted on April 25, 2008 at 8:34 AM]
- LinkedIn has new dealmaker, IPO in '08? [Posted on April 24, 2008 at 4:22 PM]
- When people hate your deal [Posted on April 24, 2008 at 3:57 PM]
- CBS buys LatAm billboarder for $110M [Posted on April 24, 2008 at 12:55 PM]
- IPO plans for Mead Johnson, but Bristol's options are open [Posted on April 24, 2008 at 11:10 AM]
- No Alitalia merger, says Malaysia Airlines CEO; open to others [Posted on April 24, 2008 at 8:50 AM]
- Lehman Brothers goes solo in Russia [Posted on April 24, 2008 at 8:27 AM]
- Sprint loses mobile phone JV partners [Posted on April 23, 2008 at 5:42 PM]
- Air Products bests expectations, promotes dealmaker [Posted on April 23, 2008 at 3:28 PM]
- Office Depot fends off dissidents, moves into India [Posted on April 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM]
- Conference Board biz dev conference in NY Thursday [Posted on April 23, 2008 at 10:39 AM]
- Joint Ventures in China, know the rules [Posted on April 22, 2008 at 5:10 PM]
- MySpace to Fox News: Sorry, no synergy [Posted on April 22, 2008 at 4:04 PM]
- Nestlé deals, organic growth boost sales to $26B [Posted on April 22, 2008 at 1:26 PM]
- Where's your company's 35-word strategy statement? [Posted on April 22, 2008 at 11:15 AM]
- Guiding growth at Tyco [Posted on April 22, 2008 at 9:27 AM]
- BofA's handy China bank stake [Posted on April 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM]
- M&A survey: PE, strategics differ on MACs [Posted on April 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM]
- $1.1B JV for Daimler, India's Hero [Posted on April 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM]
- The unfulfilled promise of eBay-Skype [Posted on April 21, 2008 at 12:19 PM]
- Two years into May deal, Macy's adjusts model [Posted on April 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM]
- Deal climate favorable, Honeywell affirms [Posted on April 18, 2008 at 3:57 PM]
- CBS Interactive adds talent, needs deals [Posted on April 18, 2008 at 3:40 PM]
- Metals M&A forges ahead, report says [Posted on April 18, 2008 at 2:58 PM]
- Market data: Tech deals strong; PE buys financials [Posted on April 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM]
- Small deals for Oxiana ahead of $6B merger [Posted on April 18, 2008 at 9:17 AM]
- US Airways' Doug Parker on industry change and consolidation [Posted on April 18, 2008 at 8:31 AM]
- Cisco's old new acquisition strategy, take 2 [Posted on April 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM]
- WellPoint buys Resolution as healthcare IT deals continue [Posted on April 17, 2008 at 2:26 PM]
- IBM CFO on tech deals: Valuations coming in line [Posted on April 17, 2008 at 1:04 PM]
- InBev's acquisitive CEO on leadership and talent retention [Posted on April 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM]
- Petrobras wants Exxon's Brazil assets [Posted on April 17, 2008 at 9:27 AM]
- Archangel pays $225M for Russian diamonds, lawsuit settled [Posted on April 17, 2008 at 8:41 AM]
- Thursday is day one for Thomson Reuters [Posted on April 16, 2008 at 3:17 PM]
- M&A in China: GE to invest $2B [Posted on April 16, 2008 at 2:19 PM]
- Equifax dealmaker rates Russia a good investment [Posted on April 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM]
- Could acquisitions benefit from prediction markets? [Posted on April 16, 2008 at 11:27 AM]
- eHarmony: Looking for love [Posted on April 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM]
- Britain welcomes deals from China's SWF [Posted on April 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM]
- Cross-border M&A draws corporates, despite risks [Posted on April 15, 2008 at 4:14 PM]
- Nissan, Chrysler sign second deal of '08. What about Ford? [Posted on April 15, 2008 at 3:02 PM]
- How Golden West deal weakened Wachovia [Posted on April 15, 2008 at 12:19 PM]
- Understanding the Chinese consumer [Posted on April 15, 2008 at 11:16 AM]
- Icahn, Blockbuster and imperial CEO pratfalls [Posted on April 15, 2008 at 8:42 AM]
- Pharma strategists discovered by WSJ [Posted on April 14, 2008 at 3:56 PM]
- Cadbury drinks spinoff to induce takeover? [Posted on April 14, 2008 at 3:43 PM]
- Salesforce.com tightens Google ties with apps deal [Posted on April 14, 2008 at 1:58 PM]
- Chinese M&A to roll on after Olympics, deal execs say [Posted on April 14, 2008 at 1:47 PM]
- Churchill Downs, still running hard [Posted on April 14, 2008 at 1:20 PM]
- Strategic dealmaking in action at Ametek [Posted on April 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM]
- P&G gets funky with Def Jam Records [Posted on April 14, 2008 at 11:47 AM]
- ACG InterGrowth: Oracle shares acquisition best practices [Posted on April 11, 2008 at 4:54 PM]
- Need for R&D scale leads to $3B JV for chipmakers STM, NXP [Posted on April 11, 2008 at 1:50 PM]
- Strategics continue to buoy M&A numbers, Takeda buys Millennium [Posted on April 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM]
- ACG InterGrowth: Media perspective on PE [Posted on April 10, 2008 at 3:06 PM]
- ACG InterGrowth: Laffer vs. Sperling in economist smackdown [Posted on April 10, 2008 at 11:55 AM]
- Yahoo! courts AOL, Microsoft gauges News Corp. [Posted on April 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM]
- Sirower trades PwC for Deloitte [Posted on April 10, 2008 at 8:34 AM]
- MillerCoors names chief integration and financial officers [Posted on April 9, 2008 at 5:02 PM]
- ACG InterGrowth: Vernon Jordan on politics, civility and regulation [Posted on April 9, 2008 at 3:57 PM]
- M&A: Industries to watch in the upcoming months [Posted on April 9, 2008 at 2:22 PM]
- Greetings from sunny Orlando, Fla. [Posted on April 9, 2008 at 11:18 AM]
- More e-health industry consolidation [Posted on April 9, 2008 at 11:02 AM]
- Integration trips up AMD [Posted on April 8, 2008 at 4:59 PM]
- Live blogging from Orlando begins Wednesday [Posted on April 8, 2008 at 3:19 PM]
- Intel Capital ups China fund [Posted on April 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM]
- Hi-ho hi-ho, it's Disney's dealflow [Posted on April 8, 2008 at 1:09 PM]
- A redesign for Adobe [Posted on April 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM]
- Media types to pipe up on PE at ACG InterGrowth [Posted on April 8, 2008 at 8:03 AM]
- Network Appliance highlighted at ACG conference [Posted on April 7, 2008 at 4:55 PM]
- EU approves MillerCoors, Anheuser EVP comments [Posted on April 7, 2008 at 4:14 PM]
- After Alcon deal, Nestle well positioned to bid for Mead Johnson [Posted on April 7, 2008 at 1:42 PM]
- Nielsen acquires IAG, expands TV and Internet analytics [Posted on April 7, 2008 at 1:33 PM]
- Piecing together Microsoft and Yahoo! [Posted on April 7, 2008 at 11:51 AM]
- Landry's CEO shrinks take-private offer [Posted on April 4, 2008 at 5:49 PM]
- UBS, Citi and the way big banks make mistakes [Posted on April 4, 2008 at 4:54 PM]
- Middleby to receive growth award [Posted on April 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM]
- When M&A and intellectual property collide [Posted on April 4, 2008 at 12:49 PM]
- Oracle to detail its dealmaking approach at InterGrowth [Posted on April 4, 2008 at 11:49 AM]
- I-banker Sellhausen takes biz dev role at Dover [Posted on April 4, 2008 at 9:01 AM]
- RIM: $310M purchase of intangible assets [Posted on April 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM]
- Healthcare dealmakers on the credit crunch [Posted on April 3, 2008 at 4:29 PM]
- Techies feel first-quarter M&A crunch, dealmakers look ahead [Posted on April 3, 2008 at 3:34 PM]
- Caterpillar adds tunnel boring to its repertoire [Posted on April 3, 2008 at 3:00 PM]
- What recession? Dealmakers in droves expected at ACG Intergrowth [Posted on April 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM]
- Perella says opportunity knocks for strategics [Posted on April 2, 2008 at 5:20 PM]
- Yahoo! dealmaking continues as Microsoft hovers [Posted on April 2, 2008 at 4:44 PM]
- Omnicare's Christine Arakelian on integration [Posted on April 2, 2008 at 4:16 PM]
- A little perspective on surging oil, mining, utility M&A [Posted on April 2, 2008 at 2:51 PM]
- Deals stoke profits for Russian steelmaker [Posted on April 2, 2008 at 1:28 PM]
- Lincoln International: Time is right for private firms to sell [Posted on April 2, 2008 at 9:42 AM]
- Making working capital work harder [Posted on April 2, 2008 at 9:18 AM]
- Eisai dealmaker talks biotech deals [Posted on April 1, 2008 at 4:30 PM]
- Beset by bottlenecks, Boeing buys Carlyle's Vought out of 787 JV [Posted on April 1, 2008 at 1:56 PM]
- VeraSun, US BioEnergy complete merger [Posted on April 1, 2008 at 12:44 PM]
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