Kraft Foods News

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 up 0.8 to 1 percent.

The source said if no rival bidder emerges, Kraft could keep its original bid unchanged, according to Reuters.

(Craina TMs) a " Customer satisfaction with Kraft Foods Inc. has dropped in the last year, according to an annual survey conducted by the University of Michigan. Northfield-based Krafta TMs score on the American Customer Satisfaction Index fell to 83 from 85, the second-largest decline among ...

Nestle SA is weighing options including a possible bid for Cadbury Plc that would challenge Kraft Foods Inc.

To begin with, cheddar cheese had to be made within 30 miles of Wells cathedral in Somerset.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Hershey Co. may make a $17 billion competing bid for UK candy company Cadbury.

Leon Kalvaria, vice chairman of the institutional clients group of Citigroup Inc.

Italian chocolate maker Ferrero could be interested in Cadbury's gum and candy division, a unit worth about 5 billion euros , in a possible joint takeover bid, business daily Il Sole 24 Ore said on Friday.

The U.S. food giant formalized its low-ball bid earlier this week hoping that the lack of any counter bidder would pressure Cadbury shareholders into accepting its offer rather than see the share price of Cadbury fall sharply if Kraft walked away.

As children are often told in the candy aisle: Just because you want something doesn't mean you can have it.

Deal speculation built again in London, this time with Reckitt Benckiser in the spotlight, helping limit downside for the top British share index on Thursday.

Nov. 18 -- Robert Profusek, a partner at Jones Day law firm, talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Matt Miller about the outlook for other companies to outbid Kraft Foods Inc.

Kraft Foods has gone hostile in its bid to buy Cadbury but didn't sweeten its first bid, drawing an immediate rejection from the British candy maker in what is likely to be a lengthy takeover struggle.

BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. said Wednesday that a legal settlement helped push its third-quarter profit down 37 percent.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday unveiled weekly savings starting Saturday on popular toys and video games that it is pitching as comparable to the sales blitz the day after Thanksgiving.

Hershey Co. has been working with Italian chocolate maker Ferrero Spa to craft a possible joint bid for Cadbury PLC , according to a published report.

Unions have written to Kraft demanding promises that the Cadbury plant in Keynsham will be reprieved following a takeover.

Moody's estimates that Kraft's proposed offer for Cadbury's would push Kraft's debt-to-EBITDA ratio above 4.0, weakening Kraft's financial metrics beyond the typical bounds of a Baa2 rating.

The Dow hit its highest level of 2009 while the dollar sank to new lows on Monday as investors began the week with a bullish run on stocks.

Derisory adj . deserving derision; too insignificant for serious consideration. In lambasting a formal takeover offer from Kraft as "derisory" , Cadbury Chairman Roger Carr has both ratcheted up the rhetoric and struck a tone familiar to connoisseurs of bid battles.