Consumer Goods: Keurig Green Mountain Jumps Over 70% on Buyout News
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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An international coffee conglomerate adds Keurig to its portfolio for $13.9 billion. And at Amazon, its Prime TV service just got even better.
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| 0:00.0 | Curie Green Mountain gets bought out for $13.9 billion on this Consumer Goods Edition of Industry Focus. Greetings Fools Fools I am Sean O'Reilly joining you here from Fool |
| 0:17.8 | Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. It is Tuesday, December 8th, 2015 and joining me to talk about a 13.9 billion dollar |
| 0:25.4 | K-cup is the coolest cat in town, Mr. Vincent Shen. |
| 0:28.5 | What's up, Vince? |
| 0:29.5 | Not much, thinking about this deal right now and how very lucky some investors were think |
| 0:36.3 | Coca-Cola and how very unlucky other investors were. |
| 0:40.3 | We'll talk about this a little later. |
| 0:42.2 | Coca-Cola is actually recording a gain on the investment of, |
| 0:46.2 | they invested like billions of dollars, right? |
| 0:48.1 | They made 25 million. |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah, and this is a really, they swung from a quite a bit of, you know, a significant loss to this, |
| 0:55.6 | ekeying out this really small game, but we'll get to that later. |
| 0:58.2 | Yeah, and actually before we dive in to the, obviously the big consumer goods news of the week the acquisition of |
| 1:04.6 | Curie Green Mountain by J.E. B. Group. Also some big news out of Amazon. They |
| 1:10.2 | announced that and apparently my prime subscription is about to get a little bit more valuable. |
| 1:14.8 | So what's going on real quick? |
| 1:16.8 | Sure. |
| 1:17.8 | So there had been rumors about this over the past couple weeks, I think, where people were |
| 1:22.1 | basically hearing that Amazon would be offering |
| 1:26.7 | its own or offering through its prime TV service subscriptions to other well-known video services, |
| 1:36.2 | networks, premium networks even, and then potentially selling like prepackaged bundles of its |
| 1:42.0 | own to further the cord cutting movement I guess and |
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