Posts tagged: 3G
Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 9:50 am
Remember when Warren Buffett and Brazilian private equity firm 3G tried to buy Unilever for £115 billion?
That was back in 2017 when Bryce Elder, an intrepid stock market reporter from the Financial Times, broke the blockbuster scoop...
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Friday, 31 December 2021, 10:30 am
It's the final day of the year but the dealmaking goes on.
This time 3G - the giant private equity firm led by Brazilian billionaires - is buying a 75pc stake in Dutch window blinds maker Hunter Douglas from the Sonnenberg family for EURO 175 a share.
That means 3G - which a few years ago attempted to purchase Unilever alongside Warren Buffett - is buying Hunter Douglas at a 73pc premium...
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Thursday, 18 May 2017, 7:14 pm
Two conflicting reports have been published hot on the heals the New York Post's tale earlier this week about US consumer goods giant Colgate-Palmolive weighing a sale at $100 a share...
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Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 4:58 pm
I see the New York Post is today carrying a story about how consumer goods giant Colgate-Palmolive could be looking to sell the business. Here is the link:
http://nypost.com/2017/05/16/colgate-palmolive-could-be-looking-to-sell/..
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 6:51 pm
Two days on and the upper echelons of the financial media world are still picking over the carcass of the failed Kraft Heinz / 3G / Warren Buffett / Unilever deal.
Probably the best newspaper piece out there is the "tick tock" by Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Kahn in today's Financial Times. Here is the link in case you haven't read it:..
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