Posted on 03/26/2015 1:22:27 AM PDT by Daffynition
Heinz is buying Kraft Foods to create the world's fifth largest food and beverage company, with sales of about $28 billion.
Kraft shares surged more than 33% Wednesday.
Kraft owns popular brands such as Jell-O, Maxwell House coffee and Planters peanuts. Heinz, of course, is famous for its ketchup, and also owns Lea & Perrins and Ore-Ida.
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Well I dropped Glenn Beck a long time ago too...so maybe they quit him the same time I did :-).
I never even tried Sargento until I had a great coupon a couple weeks ago...now I’m loving it. I’m talking of their cheddars only though. I haven’t tried the others.
That’s my kinda price, I’d have bought a bunch, too! I made a box last week using heavy cream and butter, and wow, that jazzed it up.
Cabot is good too
No question
Butter and raw Jersey Cow Milk... last night... ate the whole box.
Anti-Trust Laws, what are those?
Vermont is exceptional when it comes to promoting their *Vermont* products.
I’ve been hooked on Vermont Bread [Brattleboro] and happy I can buy it locally in CT.
Another huge gubmint bureaucracy that doesn’t work. ;(
I used to eat white Vermont cheddar when I lived in Manhattan
I went there a bit too
Rented cabins at a place called Hawk mt near Plymouth
80s
Near Stockbridge
I recall snow there October 1st in 87
Isn’t Plymouth the hometown of Calvin Coolidge?
Up near Killington, IIRC. Beautiful area.
Yeah, I was just gonna say...I get that brand of cheddar all the time.
**Everyone should look at what Kraft Foods did on the market yesterday... ticker symbol KRFT. Time to cash out and celebrate with some Kraft Dinner.**
A financial guy on Fox Financial said if you invested $10K in Kraft 30 years ago....it would trade for more than $220K today.
Not for the Oracle of Omaha, who also weighs in heavily in the insurance and local newspaper businesses.
Consider if it were in a DRIP!
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