Hints and tips:
...KKR’s $1.2bn acquisition of US retailer Mills Fleet Farm, for example, failed to secure any bank finance — forcing the private equity firm to use its own capital to back the takeover....
...“It’s incredible that we are not giving [small farmers] the option to cross the poverty line,” says Monsanto’s chief executive for northern Latin America, Manuel Bravo....
...Bravo to him. 42 Avenue Gabriel, Paris 75008 (+331-5836 6060; www.lareserve-paris.com)....
...Bravo JM! But this is not really true, or fair, and not really the reason why I am becoming allergic to teaching Him....
...“Sell banks, buy cheese,” Crispin Odey, manager of London-based hedge fund Odey Asset Management who has started investing in farming companies, said recently....
...in the mid-1930s had turned, by the time Ofra Strauss was growing up, into a household name, known nationally for its cheeses and ice cream....
...The Gloucestershire farm that produces Stinking Bishop cheese, cited in the new movie, says its order book is now beyond control. (The curse of the were-business?)...
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