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...So while sales dropped (as they also did for PepsiAmericas), profits were higher than expected and the company raised its guidance for the full year....
...PepsiAmericas, the second-largest Pepsi bottler, fell 0.3 per cent to $29.48 after posting a lower-than-expected profit for the fourth quarter....
...The agreement values shares of Pepsi Bottling at $36.50 and PepsiAmericas at $28.50, offering investors cash or shares....
...The offers for Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas value each company’s shares at about 17% above their Friday trading price....
...When PepsiCo made an unsolicited $6bn cash-and-stock bid to acquire Pepsi Bottling and PepsiAmericas earlier this year, Pepsi Bottling quickly adopted a poison pill provision barring PepsiCo from acquiring...
...Facing them across the North American beverage market in the blue corner is PepsiCo, which announced on Tuesday that it would combine with its two largest US bottlers, PepsiAmericas and the Pepsi Bottling...
...Pepsi Bottling rose 8.5 per cent to $36.49 and PepsiAmericas gained 9 per cent to close at $28.50....
...PepsiCo is also involved in an unsolicited bid to take control of its largest bottlers in the Americas, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas, that both have rejected as too low....
...The group said on Monday it wanted to “strategically transform” its North American beverage business by buying its two largest bottlers – Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas – for $6bn in cash and shares...
...Coca-Cola Enterprises was 1.6 per cent lower at $19.13, Pepsi Bottling Group fell 3.4 per cent to $27.09 and PepsiAmericas fell 4.1 per cent to $23.25 as Lehman Brothers downgraded the trio, citing rising...
...It also forged an agreement with Pepsi bottler PepsiAmericas to distribute Beck’s in Poland. For guaraná, there will always be 180m enthusiastic consumers in Brazil....
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