Packaged Foods & Meats

General Mills (NYSE: GIS), the second-largest U.S. food company by market value, and Switzerland-based Nestle (PK: NSRGY), the world's largest publicly traded food, are reportedly among the top bidders for PAI Partners' 50% stake in Yoplait. Yoplait shareholders Sodiaal and PAI said in January that...

Shares of Chiquita Brands International (NYSE: CQB) are higher on the session by 3.95%, trading at $17.10. Overall call volume is now running at 2.44x the daily average, with 77% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,318 contracts have traded on the session so far. Chiquita Brands...

Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower court's ruling denying Kraft's request for a preliminary injunction against Starbucks Coffee Company. The injunction would have stopped Starbucks from unilaterally ending its strategic...

The court has ruled in favor of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) and against Kraft (NYSE: KFT).

The Board of Directors of Kraft Foods Inc.(NYSE: KFT) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.29 per common share of Class A stock. This dividend is payable on April 14, 2011, to stockholders of record as of March 31, 2011.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) is trading lower today. At the time of posting, shares of GMCR were trading at $40.12, down 3.28% from Thursday's close.

Shares of H. J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ) are higher on the session by 1.60%, currently trading at $49.72. The stock had been moving largely lower over the past four months, but recently popped higher. It is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying...

Shares of El Paso Corp (NYSE: EP) dropped about 2% after the company reported its Q4 earnings at $62 million, or $0.09 per share, versus $265 million, or $0.36 per share, in the year-earlier period. The company's adjusted net income came in at $0.20 per share. EP's revenue dropped to $984 million...

Jefferies & Company has published a research report on Sanderson Farms (NASDAQ: SAFM) after the company reported significant losses to EPS in its 1Q, falling below analyst estimates. In the report, Jefferies writes "SAFM reported an F1Q operating loss of $0.87, well below the Street estimate...

Smart Balance, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMBL) today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. Net sales were $62.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, compared to net sales of $58.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, an increase of 6.5%. Earnings per...

H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ) expects to report “solid third-quarter results with earnings per share of around 84 cents,” Chairman, President and CEO William R. Johnson said today during his presentation at the annual conference of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) in Boca Raton,...

Unilever (NYSE: UL) aims to double its revenue within a decade, and Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL) might help it get there. Under current CEO, Paul Polman, the consumer giant has been on an acquisition spree with the recent acquisitions of Sara Lee's European shower gel and detergents business and of...

In a presentation today at the 2011 Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference, David J. West, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY), and J.P. Bilbrey Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, reviewed progress the Company has achieved in its consumer-...

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) and H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ) today announced a strategic partnership that enables Heinz to produce its ketchup bottles using Coca-Cola's breakthrough PlantBottle packaging. The PET plastic bottles are made partially from plants and have a lower reliance on...

Below are the top small-cap farm product stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating margin. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Le Gaga Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GAGA) is 28.10%. GAGA's revenue for the same period is $51.51 million. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin...