UNILEVER SEEKS BUYER FOR A BESTFOODS UNIT
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Unilever is seeking buyer for United States baked-goods unit of Bestfoods because unit does not fit with Unilever's other businesses (S)
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Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Unilever is seeking buyer for United States baked-goods unit of Bestfoods because unit does not fit with Unilever's other businesses (S)
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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Lodgian, which owns and operates Marriott, Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotels, receives $140.6 million hostile takeover bid from its largest shareholder, Edgecliff Holdings LLC; William Yung, president of Edgecliff, offers to buy all shares outstanding for $5 each, financed through combination of cash and debt from Edgecliff, DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and Lehman Brothers (S)
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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Horizon Pharmacies Inc reduces its work force by 26 percent, or 260 employees, as part of its plan to cut costs (S)
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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Kellogg Co will cut its operating divisions to two from four as it tries to bolster sluggish cereal sales (S)
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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Calpine Corp, builder of steam-fed power plants, agrees to buy TriGas Exploration for 156 million Canadian dollars ($103 million) in cash and assumed debt to secure fuel for its Alberta electricity plant (S)
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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IBM will sell new server computer that may give company at least temporary advantage over rivals; server, pSeries 680, part of IBM's new eServer line of business computers, is most powerful server using popular Unix operating system; it is first such server able to process more than 200,000 transactions a minute (S)
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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Pres Hugo Chavez announces reorganization of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela; fires its president, Hector Ciavaldini, and names Guaicaipuro Lameda Montero as new chief; photo (S)
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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Supreme Court indicates that it may review Unocal Corp patent for cleaner-burning gasoline, asking Justice Department for input on an appeal by five rival oil companies; Exxon Mobil Corp and four other companies say Unocal's patent is invalid because it is designed to mirror California clean-fuel requirements, forcing other refiners to pay simply for abiding by state's rules (S)
Date: 17 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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Briggs & Stratton Corp reports loss of $6.3 million in fiscal first-quarter ended Sept 30 compared to net income of $25.7 million a year ago; sales fell 40 percent, to $180.8 million, from $298.9 million (S)
Date: 16 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
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Handspring Inc., which makes electronic organizers that run on Palm Inc.'s operating system, said it has introduced two products with added features to appeal to higher-income users. The Visor Prism has a color screen, and the Visor Platinum advertises faster processing power. At about $450 for the Prism and $300 for the Platinum, the products are more expensive than other Handspring organizers, which run from $150 to $250.