CG: General Mills Spends $8 Billion on Its Latest Brand Addition
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
With revenue trending downward for several years running, General Mills is focused on stabilizing the top line, and management hopes that buying into a whole new industry will do the trick. Blue Buffalo Pet Products is the leader in natural pet foods, but will its double-digit top line growth be enough to move the needle?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:06.7 | It's Tuesday, February 27th, and I'm your host, Vincent Shen. |
| 0:10.0 | We're focusing our attention today on news that broke last week. |
| 0:12.8 | On Friday, Food Giant General Mills announced that it'd be acquiring Blue Buffalo Pet |
| 0:17.9 | products and an $8 billion transaction. |
| 0:20.1 | We'll dive into the two companies and the deal itself and I've enlisted the |
| 0:23.5 | help of senior Motley Fool contributor Assad Sharma who's calling into the full |
| 0:26.8 | HQ studio by Skype. Welcome back, Assad, how's it going? |
| 0:29.8 | Thanks a lot, Vince. I'm doing well. Listeners can't see this but I'm wearing |
| 0:34.7 | plaid today, but it's the last time I'm going to put this on because I'm |
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| 1:22.6 | So back to our main story, General Mills Tigger GIS is going to pay $40 per share to take over Blue |
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