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...Apollo has done deals in the restaurant and entertainment sector before but has largely focused on companies in North America. Among its past investments are the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain....
...A wide range of Odysea products are now available — from pita bread, to molasses, to feta cheese....
...I’m here with Elton Çaushi, whose Tirana-based company Albanian Trip has set up a gastronomic tour to explore the culinary reinvention....
...“New York companies are buying up residential homes, so everyday Philadelphians are being outbid by LLCs and corporations, people who have been here for generations....
...The company is Perfect Day, which uses digital copies of cow DNA to create animal-free proteins that, it says, come closer to the taste and texture and taste of milk, ice cream, cheese and yoghurt than the...
...They included leveraged buyouts of the Mexican food chain Qdoba last year, the parent company of Chuck E Cheese in 2014 and CKE Restaurants, which owns burger chain Carl’s Jr, in 2010....
...Venture capital groups have a habit of pouring money into local companies they like. See Blue Bottle Coffee and grilled cheese sandwich chain The Melt....
...In 1941, he commissioned his son, then still a student at University College Dublin’s architecture school, to design a building for 1,000 pigs and then a cheese warehouse. A career was launched....
...The move followed local opposition to what the company said would be an enabler of digital innovation and co-operation....
...“He was like the cat with the cheese. He would make an offer one day and retract it the next.”...
...“If you look forward to deep space exploration, we all need to agree on an architecture where we don’t just take each other’s cheese,” says Mr Chilton of Boeing....
...- What the Russian’s crave: cheese. - China scam innovations. - Mind-meld: neuroscientists link three monkey brains into living computer....
...Yet when big cheeses at small companies sell their shares it is the cue for slews of lawyers, tax experts and regulators to debate every nuance....
...Carlyle, the private equity firm, has bought a unit of healthcare company Johnson & Johnson in a $4.15bn deal, joining the host of companies making acquisitions as the new year gets under way....
...(Financial Times) “Kraft Foods Group, the North American packaged-foods company with brands including Maxwell House coffee and Velveeta cheese, authorized a $3 billion stock repurchase program....
...The company is also trying to balance its “barbell strategy” by catering to high-end customers with its Black Label burgers, covered with bacon and aged pepper jack cheese....
...It is to spin off its grocery arm, which has revenues of about $16bn and brands such as Kraft’s eponymous macaroni and cheese, Oscar Mayer meats and Philadelphia cream cheese....
...Danone has transformed itself into a health foods company after selling beer, biscuits, cheese and snacks assets....
...Eating and drinking Sample honey at Island Beehive (www.island-beehive.com.au, tel: +61 8 8553 0080)....
...Speculation over potential future sales by Kraft has focused on its Maxwell House coffee, Oscar Mayer meats and cheese businesses. Kraft reports its third-quarter results on November 3....
...Mr Buffett said Kraft, maker of Oreo biscuits, Kenco coffee and Philadelphia cheese, “has the disadvantage of using an undervalued stock” and was using “a weak currency” in its bid to lure Cadbury investors...
...You have to market it correctly, but if I walk into the supermarket, and I go to the organic counter, I pay far more for my organic cheese than for my conventional cheese....
...Acquisition plans by the cash-rich company are also likely to stay on hold until the end of its legal actions....
...“Sell banks, buy cheese,” Crispin Odey, manager of London-based hedge fund Odey Asset Management who has started investing in farming companies, said recently....
...The cheese section was really nice, bigger than the local Trader Joe’s. Ditto the frozen food.”...
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