September 2011
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Will your friendly neighborhood restaurant be...
The restaurant business is not for the fainthearted.
First there is the whole idea of starting one. A Google search for “how to start a restaurant business” gives 485,000 results. Sites with names like “www.startarestaurantbiz.com” or “www.how-to-start-a-restaurant.com” provide advice to budding restaurateurs. And while they talk about creative satisfaction...
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Food fight : The anatomy of a takeover
Exterior view of the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant in Kansas City, Kansas July 2, 2004. REUTERS/Dave Kaup
ConAgra foods, maker of products ranging from Slim Jim meat sticks to PAM cooking spray, has been getting a lot of coverage in US business media lately for its takeover strategy.
Over the past six months, ConAgra bid up to $5.2 billion to acquire Ralcorp Holdings Inc. which Ralcorp...