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• Barclays Stops Cadbury Coverage Over Kraft

  ReutersUK - 2009-12-17

  CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters UK) - Investment bank Barclays Capital has suspended coverage of British chocolatier Cadbury Plc CBRY due to its work with Kraft Foods Inc KFT on a hostile bid for Cadbury."Barclays Capital is acting as financial advisor to Kraft Foods in connection with a potential takeover offer for Cadbury...

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• Kraft Lender Barclays Suspends Coverage of Cadbury

  Reuters - 2009-12-17

  By Quentin WebbLONDON (Reuters) - Barclays Capital, one of the banks providing $9.2 billion of loans to help fund Kraft Foods Inc's KFT hostile bid for Britain's Cadbury Plc CBRY, has suspended coverage of Cadbury because of its role."Barclays Capital is acting as financial advisor to Kraft Foods in connection...

  Tags: Barclays Plc., Kraft Foods Inc., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Citigroup Inc.

• Cadbury Prefers Merger With Hershey

  ReutersUK - 2009-11-22

  LONDON (Reuters UK) - Cadbury Plc CBRY would prefer a merger with U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co HSY rather than Kraft Foods Inc KFT, the British company's chairman Roger Carr told the Sunday Telegraph.However, he said both U.S. groups would fail if they cannot finance generous bids, the paper reported.Hershey...

  Tags: Merger, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Hershey Co., Kraft Foods Inc.

• Cadbury Prefers Merger With Hershey Over Kraft: Report

  Reuters - 2009-11-22

  LONDON (Reuters) - Cadbury Plc CBRY would prefer a merger with U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co HSY rather than Kraft Foods Inc KFT, the British company's chairman Roger Carr told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.However, he said both U.S. groups would fail if they cannot finance generous bids, the paper reported.Hershey...

  Tags: Merger, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Hershey Co., Kraft Foods Inc.

• Hershey and Ferrero's Cadbury Interest Unlikely to Push Up Kraft Bid

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  It's not that I don't think Kraft Foods KFT will ultimately have to raise its offer in its hostile takeover bid for Cadbury CBY. The offer was low when it was floated in September and, thanks to changes in stock prices, the offer was even lower last week when Kraft...

  Tags: Kraft Foods Inc., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Food & Beverage, Investment, Games, Financial Accounting, Manufacturing, Finance, Personal Technology, Katherine Glover

• Bar Raised as Kraft Cadbury Bid Deadline Approaches

  BNET - 2009-10-22

  Cadbury reported higher-than-expected revenues and upgraded its outlook yesterday, potentially raising the bar for any attempted takeover bid by Kraft Foods. Kraft made a $16.7 billion dollar offer for the British company in September, which Cadbury rejected. Cadbury then got the U.K. Panel on Takeovers and Mergers...

  Tags: Kraft Foods Inc., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Food & Beverage, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Irene Rosenfeld's Crafty Pursuit of Cadbury

  BNET - 2009-10-01

  The Kraft CEO seems to think it takes sweetness to capture a sweets maker. So far, she looks right. Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld Everyone in business is selling something to someone, at least part of the time. The only difference:...

  Tags: Kraft Foods Inc., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Irene Rosenfeld, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Kraft Foods, Cadbury PLC, Mergers and Acquisitions, M&As, Kit R. Roane

• Cadbury Warms to Kraft Bid, Pushes for Deadline

  BNET - 2009-09-22

  Cadbury chairman Roger Carr recently called Kraft an "unattractive," "low-growth conglomerate," but CEO Todd Stitzer apparently has a much better view of the company. "I would never say there's not some strategic sense in these businesses coming together," Stitzer told the Wall Street Journal. Kraft recently announced...

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Kraft, Takeover Panel, Mergers & Acquisitions, Food & Beverage, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Cadbury Chairman Insults Kraft in Open Letter

  BNET - 2009-09-14

  It wasn't enough for Cadbury to simply reject Kraft's surprise $16.7 billion takeover offer. Cadbury chairman Roger Carr had to spell out just how "unappealing" and "unattractive" he finds the prospect of a merger with "a low growth conglomerate" like Kraft. In an open letter to Kraft...

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Kraft, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Food & Beverage, Finance, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Cadbury Playing Hard-to-Get?

  BNET - 2009-09-08

  Cadbury turned down Kraft's surprise $16.7 billion takeover offer yesterday, but nobody seems to think that's the end of the story. Cadbury is giving off mixed signals -- it said it just wanted to fly solo for the moment, but it also said the bid was too...

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Nestle S.A., Kraft, Food & Beverage, Corporate Law, Investment, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Finance, Katherine Glover