Mergers and Acquisitions from the United States

February 15, 2012

The Lessons Learned From Diamond’s Pringles Fiasco

With Kellogg’s deal to acquire Procter &Gamble’s Pringles brand for $2.695 billion in cash, Diamond Foods is left with nothing. Proctor &Gamble’s announcement of the deal was accompanied by a terse statement that the consumer products company h...

February 15, 2012

Kellogg Company Announces Agreement to Acquire Procter & Gamble's Pringles Business

Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Procter &Gamble's Pringles® business ("Pringles") for $2.695 billion. Pringles is an excellent strategic fit for Kellogg Company. It significantly ...

February 15, 2012

P&G to sell its Pringles business to the Kellogg Company

The Procter &Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today announced an agreement to divest its Snacks business to The Kellogg Company in a $2.7 billion all-cash transaction. The companies expect to complete the deal in summer of 2012. Final timing will be depend...

February 15, 2012

Statement of Diamond Foods on termination Pringles deal

Diamond Foods, Inc. today announced that The Procter &Gamble Company and Diamond have mutually agreed to terminate Diamond's proposed acquisition of the Pringles business and have released each other from all liabilities related to the proposed acq...

February 12, 2012

P&G Said to Seek Termination of Pringles Sale to Diamond

Procter &Gamble Co. has decided it will seek to terminate its sale of the Pringles snack business to Diamond Foods Inc., said three people with knowledge of the situation, following the accounting probe that ousted Diamond’s chief executive officer...

January 11, 2012

Snak King Corp. Acquires C.J. Vitner Company

Barry C. Levin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Snak King Corp., announced on January 3 that his firm has acquired C.J. Vitner Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of snack foods in the greater Chicago market. Terms of the transactio...

January 05, 2012

Hydrocutter manufacturer GME International acquired by Vanmark

GME Inc. International, the leading maker of hydrocutters and other food equipment used in the French fry, fruit and vegetable processing industry, announced that it has been acquired in an asset transfer agreement by Vanmark Equipment LLC of Creston, ...

December 14, 2011

GEA Refrigeration Technologies acquires the conveyor-belt specialist QPM Manufacturing

Effective 9 December 2011, GEA Refrigeration Technologies acquired the assets, operations, production facilities, and patents of the companies QPM LLC and QPM Manufacturing LLC, of Bellevue, Washington, USA: providers of special conveyor-belt solutions...

December 08, 2011

Mister Bee Back in Business Thanks To Investor

Production at Mister Bee Potato Chip Company is expected to be up and running by early next week after the the United States Department of Justice and Trustees Office approved post petition financing allowing an investor to start giving money to the co...

December 06, 2011

FMC Acquires Rovral® and Sportak® Fungicides From Bayer CropScience

FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) today announced that it has acquired Rovral® iprodione and Sportak® prochloraz fungicides from Bayer CropScience. The transaction includes the use of these two fungicide families and their product trademarks for agricultura...

November 29, 2011

ConAgra Foods Increases Ownership Share of Indian Company Agro Tech Foods Ltd.;Becomes Majority Owner

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America’s leading food makers, announced today that it has become the majority owner of Indian food company Agro Tech Foods Limited (ATFL), increasing its ownership of shares to more than 50 percent.

November 20, 2011

Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc. to Purchase Assets of Orval Kent Food Company

Reser's Fine Foods Inc announced that on November 15, 2011 the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware accepted the bid from Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc. (“Reser’s”) to purchase substantially all of the assets and operations of Chef Solutions In...

November 17, 2011

Packaging equipment manufacturer HayssenSandiacre acquires Simionato

Packaging equipment manufacturer HayssenSandiacre, A Barry Wehmiller Company, announces the acquisition of Simionata.

November 12, 2011

ConAgra Foods to Acquire Private Label Pretzel Manufacturer National Pretzel Company

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire National Pretzel Company, based in Lancaster, Pa., from Brookstone Holdings. National Pretzel makes private label pretzels in a variety of forms, including rods, sticks, bra...

November 10, 2011

Penford Corporation to Acquire Carolina Starches

Penford Corporation (NASDAQ: PENX), announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Carolina Starches. Penford will purchase the company interests and certain assets of the businesses currently operated by Carolina Starches, LLC and Ke...

November 01, 2011

Diamond Foods pringles acquisition pushed back to next year due to accounting questions

Diamond Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq:DMND) today announced that its previously announced acquisition of the Pringles snack business from The Procter &Gamble Company ("P&G") is now expected to close in the first half of calendar 2012. Diamond a...

October 20, 2011

Agri-Stor acquires Custom Chemical Company

Agri-Stor Company has acquired the assets and business operations of Custom Chemical Company - a full-service provider of potato sprout inhibitors, specialty post-harvest crop protection products and a Certified Dealer of Gellert® climate control systems

October 19, 2011

Wachusett Potato Chip Co. sold to Utz Quality Foods

The Wachusett Potato Chip Co., the last independent potato chip company in New England, has been purchased by a Pennsylvania-based snack food company. Utz Quality Foods Inc. of Hanover, Pa., purchased the Wachusett Potato Chip Co.'s Water Street faci...

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Mergers and Acquisitions

The Lessons Learned From Diamond’s Pringles Fiasco

Kellogg Company Announces Agreement to Acquire Procter & Gamble's Pringles Business

P&G to sell its Pringles business to the Kellogg Company

Statement of Diamond Foods on termination Pringles deal

P&G Said to Seek Termination of Pringles Sale to Diamond

Snak King Corp. Acquires C.J. Vitner Company

Hydrocutter manufacturer GME International acquired by Vanmark

GEA Refrigeration Technologies acquires the conveyor-belt specialist QPM Manufacturing

Mister Bee Back in Business Thanks To Investor

FMC Acquires Rovral® and Sportak® Fungicides From Bayer CropScience

ConAgra Foods Increases Ownership Share of Indian Company Agro Tech Foods Ltd.;Becomes Majority Owner

Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc. to Purchase Assets of Orval Kent Food Company

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Wachusett Potato Chip Co. sold to Utz Quality Foods

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