Soft Drinks

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), on Thursday, announced an agreement to acquire the North American operations of its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE). Coca-Cola Enterprises would then acquire Coke’s bottling operations in Norway and Sweden. C.C.E. will focus on Europe, and distribute Coke...

According to Tickerspy, the top performing narrow based indexes today are Chinese IT Stocks, up 3.3%, Beverage Stocks, which have surged 2.5%, and Chinese Solar Stocks, up 2% today. Leading the Chinese IT space is VanceInfo Technologies (NYSE: VIT), which has jumped 7.34% to $19.30 after guiding...

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Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) has agreed to acquire the North American operations of its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc (NYSE: CCE). The deal, if it culminates, will mirror the move made by rival PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), which is about to close its own $7.8 billion purchase of its largest bottlers,...

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) announced today that it would buy the North American business of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: CCE) in a deal that will result in about $4 billion in cash to shareholders of the Atlanta-based soft drink giant's largest bottler. The acquisition will strategically...

Some of the companies that may come into the limelight today are those that are reporting their results. While Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), Dr. Pepper Snapple (NYSE: DPS), Heinz (NYSE: HNZ) and Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) are declaring their results before the bell, Gap (NYSE: GPS), Live Nation (NYSE: LYV...

The Coca Cola Company (NYSE: K), the world’s biggest soda maker, is in talks to buyout bottler Coca Cola Enterprises, Inc.’s (NYSE: CCE) North American operations. The deal will be worth $15 billion, including debt. According to people close to situations, the deal could come through in the next...

Barron's reports that Heineken’s (ADR)(OTC: HINKY) agreement last month to buy the Cerveza beer unit of Fomento Economico Mexicano or Femsa (ADR)(NYSE: FMX), for nearly $8 billion in stock, has brought Heineken into direct competition with rivals Anheuser-Busch/ InBev (NYSE: BUD), and SABMiller (...

EnergySolutions, Inc. (NYSE: ES), a provider of technology-based nuclear services, announced that it expects an EPS of 69 cents at most this year. According to a Bloomberg survey, the consensus EPS estimate is also of 69 cents. Two US senators said GlaxoSmithKline Plc (ADR) (NYSE: GSK), which...

As the Greek philosopher extraordinaire Plato would have it, the realm of ideas is absolute reality, and truth itself is an abstraction. The Greek government(s) have been denying truth, reality and ideas for too long, and now they will be, in part, held to account. If the assumption that the EU...

Below are the top 5 consumer goods stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ in terms of cash. Toyota Motor Corp (NYSE: TM) had $44.41 billion of total cash in the most recent quarter. TM had debt liabilities of $140.49 billion during the same period. Read more about this company here. Ford Motor Co (NYSE: F...