NEW YORK, May 3- With Friday's U.S. payrolls report serving as a springboard to lift Wall Street stock indexes to fresh all-time highs, investors are left to contemplate whether the gains will fizzle or if the upward momentum will continue. said Art Hogan, managing director of Lazard Capital Markets in New York.
NEW YORK, May 3- With Friday's U.S. payrolls report serving as a springboard to lift Wall Street stock indexes to fresh all-time highs, investors are left to contemplate whether the gains will fizzle or if the upward momentum will continue.
May 1- Dean Foods Co:. WhiteWave Foods Company to Dean Foods stockholders. Morgan is acting as financial advisor to Dean Foods in connection.
CHICAGO, April 30 Fitch Ratings has taken various rating actions on Dean Foods Co. and Dean Holding Co.. --7.0% senior unsecured notes due June 1, 2016 at' BB-';. --9.75% senior unsecured notes due Dec. 15, 2018 at' BB-'.
CHICAGO, April 26 Credit metrics of speculative grade issuers have stabilized and show signs of plateauing, according to Fitch Ratings' in its latest installment of the' Leveraged Finance Stats Quarterly- Fourth Quarter 2012.' Fitch does not view the incremental leverage experience in the fourth quarter and expected in the first quarter to be either outside of expected rating levels or indicative of a deteriorating credit environment.
NEW YORK, March 12- Dean Metropoulos may not be a household name, but the food industry veteran's reach extends from the pantry to the refrigerator to the freezer. Metropoulos, who works with his sons Daren and Evan, has teamed up with longtime partner Apollo Global Management to buy some snack cake brands from bankrupt Hostess Brands Inc.
The $23 billion buyout of H.J. Heinz by Warren Buffett and private equity put food executives on notice: start showing better results or risk being left behind. Campbell Soup has long been seen as a good candidate, though roughly half of its stock is controlled by heirs of John Dorrance, who invented condensed soup.
U.S. stock index futures held their gains Wednesday following a pair of economic reports, a day after the Dow and S&P 500 closed at multi-year highs.
Jan 31- Pfizer Inc's animal health subsidiary Zoetis raised $2.2 billion in its public offering on Thursday, becoming the largest IPO from a U.S. company since Facebook. Zoetis' over $2 billion public offering is the largest from a U.S. company since Facebook raised $16 billion last May.
The milk bottler Dean Foods Co previously settled for $140 million and the Southern Marketing Agency and one of its managers settled for $5 million. The plaintiffs claimed, for instance, that the Dairy Farmers of America signed exclusive supply contracts with Dean Foods. Gary Hanman, the former CEO of the Dairy Farmers of America, was also part of the settlement.
*Shares of both Dean Foods and Saputo rise. Dec 3- Saputo Inc will buy Dean Foods Co's Morningstar division for $1.45 billion to widen its product range and increase its U.S. presence, the Canadian dairy products maker said on Monday.
Dec 3- Canadian dairy products maker Saputo Inc said it had agreed to buy Dean Foods Co's Morningstar dairy division for $1.45 billion to widen its manufacturing and distribution footprint and product offerings in the United States.