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...The premium soda and tonic brand Fever-Tree has had a 30 per cent fall in first half pre-tax profit after being hit by rising costs....
...Takeaway.com’s offer gave Just Eat’s shares an implied value of 731p, a premium of 15 per cent to its closing price before news of the tie-up first emerged....
...Carolina Brochado, formerly a partner at SoftBank’s Vision Fund, has joined EQT to help lead a new growth equity strategy....
...That’s about 140m people willing to buy premium products,” he added. Chinese demand has been robust as people stock up ahead of the lunar new year festivities at the end of January....
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...“It will be a premium product, at a much higher price.”...
...The premium valuation compares with a relatively slim asset base, according to filings....
...Expenditure included a 214-foot yacht, the most expensive mansion ever sold in Raleigh, North Carolina, two Gulfstream jets and last, but not least, political donations to the GOP in North Carolina....
...Selling a company at a premium produces easy profits for the investors who have recently bought in....
...About 120,000 shareholders in Campbell Soup are being wooed by Daniel Loeb’s activist hedge fund, which claimed they could be in line for a premium of almost 60 per cent if the US food group yielded to a...
...Facilities in North Carolina and Michigan, as well as a sales office in Canada, will be included....
...The price also represents a 23 per cent premium company’s closing price on April 19, when Jana Partners first disclosed that it has taken a stake in the company and began pushing for a sale of the business...
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...Glass Lewis, the influential proxy advisory group, said the deal yielded “no meaningful premium to Rite Aid investors”....
...Peak hurricane season is on us, with Florence heading straight at the Carolinas: Which means it is the traditional time to contemplate reinsurance rates and the state of an industry which has a complicated...
...The offer terms are 0.669 Dominion shares, valued at $55.35, for every Scana share, representing a 42 per cent premium to the closing price on Tuesday of $38.87....
...North Carolina-based Snyder’s-Lance will become a part of Campbell’s global biscuits and snacks division, which includes Pepperidge Farm and Arnott’s biscuits....
...Founded in 1913, Seattle-based Stanley is the hiker’s hot beverage go-to....
...The 2005 Anheuser-Busch report states that the company was “collpasing the price umbrella by reducing our price premium relative to major domestic competitiors”....
...The deals add to a wave of consolidation in food and beverages as the industry is transformed by changing consumer tastes....
...The quick sale for a premium is less common today.”...
...One, at the VC Summer plant in South Carolina, was suspended last year due to escalating costs and the other, at Plant Vogtle in Georgia, has required billions of dollars of additional investment and federal...
...The offer represents a 9 per cent premium to Friday’s closing share price of $12.85, and sent Bankrate shares up 8.5 per cent to $13.95 in New York trading....
...Walmart, which makes more than half of its $480bn in annual sales from food and beverages, has also opted to cut prices....
...AB InBev’s thirst for premium-priced craft brands continued with the acquisition this week of North Carolina-based Wicked Weed, the group’s 10th US acquisition in the craft sector....
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