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Defender of a very British brand who plays to win

11.11.09
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A dead on arrival bid?

09.11.09
The Cadbury camp were all smiles at this afternoon’s super-low offer from Kraft, with one senior insider describing it as the “dead on arrival bid”... more

'Cheapskate' Kraft offers only 717p for Cadbury

09.11.09
Kraft today formally launched a £9.8 billion takeover bid for Cadbury, taking the fight to acquire the business directly to shareholders ... more

City traders overjoyed by Marks & Sparkling profits

04.11.09
They threw the switch on the Christmas lights in London’s Regent Street and Oxford Street last night, and, as if on cue, shares of some our major retailers lit up this morning ... more

Kraft sales blow ‘puts deal in doubt’

04.11.09
Analysts and investors today cited growing concerns that the proposed takeover of Cadbury by Kraft Foods could be stymied after the US predator lowered its sales outlook for the year ... more

Come on Irene, get your bid price for Cadbury up to 900p

22.10.09
The credibility of Kraft chief executive Irene Rosenfeld is at risk if the food giant doesn’t win Cadbury ... more

Cowdery is no Quaker, but Montague has done his best

05.10.09
When I visited the office of Barclays chairman Marcus Agius recently, he proudly showed me a corridor, the walls of which were covered with portraits of the bank’s founders. Quakers. ... more

Merger mania gets Wall St buzzing again

28.09.09
Analysis: Merger mania is back in America and Wall Street bankers who have spent the last year wandering in a fruitless and miserable wasteland are clamouring for a piece of the action... more

Determined face of Kraft with a huge appetite for Cadbury’s

23.09.09
Irene Rosenfeld downplays City’s fears, and says buying confectionery favourite is ‘right step’ for US giant ... more

Kraft tries to keep bid panel at bay

22.09.09
Kraft moved today to try and head off the request that it should “put up or shut up” in its £10.2 billion bid for Cadbury ... more

City has the taste for a Cadbury sweetener

15.09.09
Hopes for a sweeter takeover offer for Cadbury were being chewed over in the City as the rebuffed shock bid from Kraft fell further behind what investors think the chocolate giant is worth... more

Hopes of higher Kraft bid drive Cadbury rise

14.09.09
Cadbury shares are moving upwards as market-makers bet that suitor Kraft will soon make an improved takeover offer for the 185-year-old business... more

Sugar plumbs new low in Pimlico

09.09.09
There was once a laughable suggestion that Alan Sugar could run for London Mayor. Surely there is no chance of the star of TV’s The Apprentice and Gordon Brown’s recently ennobled business adviser, taking to the hustings — given that he keeps firing off solicitors’ letters to anyone who has the temerity to criticise him... more

Cadbury’s and Kraft are as different as choc and cheese

08.09.09
Let's be clear about Kraft Foods: it is a global, rapacious and ruthless entity. It has zero interest in the well-being of Cadbury, certainly not its staff... more

Cadbury rejects £10.2 billion Kraft bid

07.09.09
Cadbury's, the confectionery giant and maker of Dairy Milk, has rejected a £10.2 billion hostile takeover offer by US rival Kraft, one of America’s biggest food firms. ... more

Cadbury soars 40% as Kraft sparks hopes of bid battle

07.09.09
Cadbury shares soared more than 40% today as investors bet that a £10 billion takeover bid from US food giant Kraft would succeed ... more

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