Insights and Stories of Martinne Geller

Jan. 28, 2017 at 2:06 am CST

London | Reuters — The third-biggest U.S. cereal company, Post Holdings, and the U.K.’s Associated British Foods are among a group of four bidders vying for British cereal brand Weetabix, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The 84-year-old business could fetch at least 1.5 billion pounds (C$2.48 billion), based […]

By Martinne Geller, Pamela Barbaglia

Jan. 17, 2017 at 6:11 pm CST

Davos, Switzerland | Reuters –– Syngenta, the Swiss pesticides and seeds group being taken over by ChemChina, does not expect antitrust regulators to force the Chinese state-owned company to put its subsidiary Adama up for sale, Syngenta’s CEO said on Tuesday. “Adama will not need to be sold. There will […]

By Martinne Geller

Sep. 28, 2016 at 4:05 pm CDT

London/Brussels | Reuters — SABMiller shareholders overwhelmingly backed the brewer’s takeover by Anheuser-Busch InBev on Wednesday, clearing the last big hurdle for one of the largest corporate mergers in history. When the deal closes, which AB InBev said Wednesday it expects to happen Oct. 10, the combined group will sell […]

By Martinne Geller, philip-blenkinsop

Apr. 11, 2016 at 3:46 pm CDT

Reuters — Fifty-four large investors managing one trillion pounds (C$1.84 trillion) in assets have launched a campaign to curb the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry used by 10 large U.S. and British restaurant groups. McDonalds and JD Wetherspoon were among those to receive a March 15 letter […]

By Lisa Baertlein, Martinne Geller, Simon Jessop

Oct. 13, 2015 at 1:05 pm CDT

Brussels/London | Reuters –– The world’s two biggest brewers agreed on Tuesday to create a company making almost a third of the world’s beer after SABMiller received an improved offer worth more than C$130 billion from larger rival Anheuser-Busch InBev. If it goes through, the deal would rank in the […]

By Martinne Geller, philip-blenkinsop