Quaker Oats OAT
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Pepsi's A Buy At Current Levels
… SEC 10-K ) Pepsico, Inc. ( PEP ) is a global food, snack and beverage company. The Company's brands include Quaker Oats , Tropicana, Gatorade, Lay's, Pepsi, Walkers, Gamesa and Sabritas. The Company is organized into four business …
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Pepsi Has More Profit Potential Than Coca-Cola
… lives almost constantly and subconsciously. Today, for instance, I started out by taking on board a healthy portion of Quaker oats . Quaker is the division of PEP that just announced a partnership with the National Dairy Council to promote access to …
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B&G Foods Looks Ripe For Takeover By ConAgra
… breaking up the company may have been prompted by the break-ups announced this year by Tyco ( TYC ), Sara Lee ( SLE ), Kraft ( KFT ) and Netflix ( NFLX ). Regardless of the reason, Rothbort did note that the Quaker Oats Complete Story »
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3 Reasons Pepsico Should See Continued Growth
… Gatorade, Tropicana, Sierra Mist, Aquafina, Lay’s, Doritos Tostitos, Cheetos, Ruffles, Captain Crunch, and Quaker Oats . The company has grown profits and dividends at a 11-12% pace over the last 10 years, earning a 30%+ return on …
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Global Mergers and Acquisitions Activity Continues to Rise
… when the combination of two entities yields more than the sum of their respective values). Classic examples include Quaker Oats paying $1.7 billion to acquire Snapple in 1994 (Quaker sold it 27 months later for only $300 million), Sprint …
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Kraft's Big Biscuit Gamble
… deal is more costly than what Kraft paid for Nabisco back in 2000 and approaches the hefty price PepsiCo PEP paid for Quaker Oats and its Gatorade brand that same year. By agreeing not to close any of Danone's French manufacturing facilities for …
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Our Thoughts on Coke and Glaceau
… glance, we think the acquisition more closely resembles PepsiCo's acquisition of Gatorade (and the rest of Quaker Oats ) than Quaker Oats ' disastrous acquisition of Snapple. Coke also has much less invested in this deal on a relative basis than …
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Coke to Buy Glaceau
… overall first impression is that Coke has paid up to consummate a transaction that, while expensive, seems to be a shrewd strategic move for the long term. It seems that management has taken to heart the lessons from passing on Quaker Oats .
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PepsiCo Continues to Impress
… calorie to diet carbonated soft-drink brands, which saw a volume increase in the midsingle digits for the quarter. Quaker Oats North America, which has been one of the few disappointments for the company in recent quarters, turned in its strongest …
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Office Depot Hires New CEO
… supply retailer. Odland has an extremely strong retailing and consumer-products background, including stints at The Quaker Oats Company, Sara Lee Corporation SLE, and Royal Ahold AHO. Most recently, he was chairman, CEO, and president of …