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How would Kraft, Cadbury reorgs blend? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Prior to launching a $16.7 billion bid for Cadbury plc (NYSE:CBY) in early September, one of CEO Irene Rosenfeld's biggest initiatives at Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT) has been an ambitious restructuring of the company calls Organizing for Growth, launched in 2007 and now mostly complete.Meanwhile, in 2008 Cadbury CEO Todd...

Posted on September 24, 2009 11:05 AM

Yipes! CEOs conned by M&A bankers! (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Attention, acquisitive CEOs. That means you, Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL), and you, Sam Palmisano of IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM), and you, Miles White of Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT). On Thursday MarketWatch columnist David Weidner noticed the recent stirrings in the M&A market, and he seized the moment to pull back...

Posted on September 18, 2009 6:00 AM

Campbell, Kraft contrast in emerging market strategy (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Cambell Soup Co. (NYSE:CPB) released its fiscal fourth-quarter results Friday, and in the process reminded us that Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT) is just one of many big food companies looking to expand in the developing world -- and also that there's more than one way to go about this. The...

Posted on September 11, 2009 11:43 AM

Kraft cuts costs by slicing suppliers thin (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Whether Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT) will sweeten its bid for Cadbury plc (NYSE:CBY) has been the subject of much speculation. The Deal's George White piled on with this rundown of why Kraft will likely hold firm with its standing $16.8 billion offer.As White notes, Kraft's debt is a limiting factor in its...

Posted on September 10, 2009 4:13 PM

Hershey's sticky Cadbury agreement (from Corporate Dealmaker)

If Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT) wins Cadbury plc (NYSE:CBY), it still might face a hole in its U.S. pantry. Evidently, Cadbury and Hershey Co. (NYSE:HSY) are joined at the hip via a 1988 licensing agreement that could leave Kraft without many of Cadbury's key products, such as its famous Creme...

Posted on September 10, 2009 11:07 AM

Chocolate, gum and emerging markets (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Like other observers, we've commented on how the presence of Cadbury plc (NYSE:CBY) in emerging markets, especially British Commonwealth countries, has helped to make it an attractive target for Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT).Thursday's Wall Street Journal has a nice piece on Cadbury in India and other markets. The WSJ notes...

Posted on September 10, 2009 9:58 AM

Valuing Cadbury's emerging market presence (from Corporate Dealmaker)

A prominent member of the team working on Kraft Foods Inc.'s (NYSE:KFT) pursuit of Cadbury plc is Michael Osanloo, who joined Kraft as EVP for strategy in April of 2008, right after Mars Inc. unveiled its takeover of William Wrigley Jr. Co. As we observed at the time, it was...

Posted on September 8, 2009 10:19 AM