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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Cool Money.

It's the Motley Cool Money radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for

Million Dollar Portfolio. Jason Moser, Matt Argusinger and Simon Erickson.

Thanks for being here, guys. Let's try it back to the empty.

Let's get this show over with so you can get back to actually running the Million Dollar Portfolio service.

We've got big news in the beverage industry, big stock buyback plans, and a potential game changer for the biggest burger chain in the world.

As always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin with the deal of the week. Craft foods is merging with hines.

Craft share holders get 49% stake, plus some special cash dividends. Hines gets 51% of the company, Matt.

It's now the third largest food company in America. What did you think of this deal?

Well, this is warm buff. It's sort of new MO. He's always wanted to bag elephants.

In this case, he's getting a big piece of an elephant. And it's the new model of him going after beer companies and using 3G Capital,

or a Pololemon who he has great relationship with. They partnered on hines. He likes their management style.

He likes the way they cut costs. And so this is a way for buffers to go after companies where he doesn't necessarily like the management.

But he knows he's got the 3G guys in, bring them in, partner with them, and he gets the management and the stake in the business.

It's a huge deal. It kind of fits right into the MO right now.

And we've talked before the show. It kind of begs the question, what other food companies could be in play?

And companies like McCormick, Campbell Soup, Kellogg, General Mills. I mean, these are some substantial elephants out there that maybe 3G and Buffett are going to go after.

Yeah, Jason, to Matt's point, you look over the last couple of years. This is just the latest piece of a growing puzzle of mergers in the food industry when you consider Kellogg and Pringles,

Hormel and Skippy's General Mills and Annie's.

Yeah, I think this is an industry where scale is becoming more and more crucial as time goes on. I think there's a relatively complimentary brands that come together and they'll be able to ring out the cost efficiencies there.

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