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...Soon after, on a balmy day at Chicago’s Wrigley Field where Springsteen hits including “Born to Run” blasted, the poaching war was on. The battle isn’t over, though....
...Engagement for Toyota, another of Kim’s sponsors, increased 574 per cent the day after her gold medal, 4C found....
...The investor, who helped fund the takeover of Wrigley by Mars, is likely to be one of the first calls should patriarch Forrest Mars Jr ever seek a secure home for his family’s confectionery empire....
...boasts many billionaires, including talk-show host Oprah Winfrey; Ken Griffin, head of the Citadel hedge fund; the Pritzker family, the Hyatt hotels heirs; Ty Warner, the Beanie Babies magnate; William Wrigley...
...Cadbury’s defence, Mr Carr denounced the value of Kraft’s offer as “materially lower” than acquisitions of comparable confectionery businesses, arguing that comparable deals – including Mars’s acquisition of Wrigley...
...Tribune, which publishes the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, put the Cubs assets, which include Wrigley Field and a stake in a regional sports cable network up for sale in April 2007 when it agreed...
...It has sold a 95 per cent stake in the Chicago Cubs baseball team and their Wrigley Field, and a 25 per cent stake in Comcast SportsNet Chicago....
...Kraft has released statements disputing comparisons between its offer and Mars’s $23bn (£13.8bn) takeover of Wrigley last year....
...The most obvious comparison is Mars’ 2008 acquisition of Wrigley, at 19 times EV/ebitda. Markets were a great deal frothier then, but Cadbury’s growth potential may be higher....
...of the Chicago Cubs baseball team and related assets after a creditors committee in the newspaper publisher’s bankruptcy proceedings said it preferred a bid submitted by Tom Ricketts, head of Incapital LLC...
...Tribune put the Cubs assets, which include Wrigley Field and a stake in a regional sports cable network, up for sale in April 2007 when it agreed to the leveraged buy-out....
...The Chapter 11 filing threatens key US metropolitan newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and LA Times, and more than 20 TV stations but excludes Zell’s Chicago Cubs baseball team and its Wrigley Field...
...Score one for the advocates of the ‘end of newspapers’ meme, then: the Tribune Company – publisher of of the Chigago Tribunes and the LA Times, and owner of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field – has filed...
...Goldman of course doesn’t seem to be doing too badly out of consumer-sector consolidation – having already netted $46m for advising Wrigley’s sale to Mars/Warren Buffet....
...Tribune has also announced plans to sell various other assets including the Chicago Cubs baseball team and their Wrigley Field home base....
...However, as opposed to other family-held public companies such as Wrigley, the Busch family does not wield voting control over Anheuser....
...David Novosel, an analyst at Gimme Credit, the credit ratings firm, has warned that the company, which is already working on plans to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team and their Wrigley Field base, may...
...Tribune, which is also trying to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team and Chicago’s Wrigley Field stadium, has now added its media services business to the list of assets on the auction block, according to...
...It has said it planned to auction off the Chicago Cubs baseball team and the team’s Wrigley Field....
...Companies credited with earnings growth potential, such as Procter & Gamble or WM Wrigley, are a lot dearer still....
...Phil Wrigley, chief executive of New Look, said he expected some casualties in the non-food sector, adding that M&S would be a winner. “I think Stuart [Rose] has done pretty well....
...The purchase strengthens Wrigley's position against rival Cadbury, which last year bought gum maker Adams....
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