The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) – market cap as of 18/09/18: 196.23 bn Whitbread Plc (LON: WTB) – market cap as of 18/09/18; £ 8.61 bn Introduction On the 31st of August 2018, The Coca-Cola Company announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Costa Limited, one Read more…
Whitbread plc (LON:WTB) – market cap as of 04/05/2018: £7.84bn Introduction Conflicts of interest between shareholders and managers represent an old phenomenon and an inherent element of capitalistic governance systems. It stems from the fact that managers tend to profit from simply because their companies are getting bigger (through higher Read more…
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE:DPS) – market cap as of 17/02/2018: $28.78bn Introduction On January 29, 2018, Keurig Green Mountain, the coffee group owned by JAB Holding, announced the acquisition of soda maker Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Under the terms of the reverse takeover, Keurig will pay $103.75 per share Read more…
Mondelez International; market cap as of 11/03/2016: $66.46bn Introduction Lavazza, the leading company in the Italian coffee market, has agreed to buy the French brand Carte Noire for €700m in order to pursue its international expansion. This deal is a result of the EU regulators’ decision according to which the Read more…
Commodities rout is one of the key themes that have characterised 2015. Further to oil and gold (which we covered last week https://bsic.it/future-gold-full-hedge-role-risk/), several basic resources, like industrial metals, have been suffering for months, but they may be affected by slightly different factors than the former. Through this article, we Read more…