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Imperial Tobacco CEO talks integration and strategy (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Earlier this week, Imperial Tobacco Group plc said it would offer a discounted £4.9 billion ($9.6 billion) rights issue to fund its £11.3 billion takeover of Franco-Spanish group Altadis SA, which closed in January. Imperial's CEO Gareth Davis (pictured) and finance director Robert Dyrbus sat down with Cantos Communications Ltd....

Posted on May 23, 2008 4:47 PM

Danone divests, acquires, makes peace--and big profits (from Corporate Dealmaker)

France's Groupe Danone SA's 2007 net income soared 309%, from 1.4 billion euros ($2 billion) in 2006 to 4.2 billion euros. This came from a whirlwind month in July, where Danone sold its cookies and cereals business to Kraft Foods Inc. for 5.3 billion euros. That deal, from which they...

Posted on February 14, 2008 1:15 PM