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...That criticism led one executive to warn, in a famous internal memo a decade and a half ago, that its strategy was spread as thinly as peanut butter. Yahoo is still dealing with that legacy....
...(New York Times) News round-up Disney Plus added 8m subscribers over Christmas (FT) Billionaire Asda buyers raise £2.75bn in record sterling junk bond sale (FT) Kraft Heinz agrees $3.35bn Planters peanuts...
...Its biggest client is not a public pension fund but the life insurance company Athene....
...Conagra Brands, maker of Peter Pan peanut butter and Swiss Miss cocoa powder, has agreed to buy Pinnacle Foods, the company behind brands including Birds Eye frozen foods and Aunt Jemima pancakes, in a deal...
...Here are his findings: So after a difficult period in the 1970s, these companies did pretty well in the following thirty years....
...Last year, rival Hormel Foods, which makes lunch meats and canned chilli, bought Unilever’s Skippy peanut butter line in a move to expand beyond meat and accelerate growth in China....
...Bre Pettis, chief executive and co-founder of MakerBot, said: “It’s like a peanut and chocolate type of a story. “They are better together than they are apart.”...
...But financial services companies can make money serving the public as well as the plutocrats, and there was a time not so long ago when they were falling over themselves to do just that....
...But this is peanuts compared with the figures bandied about in the sciences....
...He turned Vivarte from loss into profit soon after becoming chief executive in 2004, having joined the company as chairman in 2000....
...“If you look at the Lehman fees relative to the percentage of assets, it is peanuts,” Prof Baird said....
...There is much debate about the merits of using swaps to provide the returns of an index, rather than buying shares in the constituent companies....
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...Peanuts. For a while Daniel Och looked like he’d come in just under that for the flotation of his hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital. The New York Times estimated he’d make $598m....
...He wrote: “It simply makes no sense to let this company fall into the hands of private equity buyers for peanuts, with the ordinary shareholders being wiped out, when all the company needs is temporary financial...
...Meanwhile, Premier’s Sun-Pat peanut butter, Gale’s honey and Smash instant mash potato are all in line for relaunches....
...More controversially, the campaign is advocating the return of roasted peanuts widely removed from US flights because of the risks to the nut allergic....
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