Reprise from spring 2008 - When The King of Beers became Belgian owned, we all paused…
Like Labatts and Brahma Beer before her, Stellaaaa’s! (Artois that is) parent company In-Bev got thirsty and gulped down St. Louis, Missouri based Budweiser Beer in one chug for a cool $52 billion dollars. Ouch.
Long the butt of Dutch jokes [...]
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Budweiser, Leuven Belgium
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ABN-AMRO, Belgians, Brahma Beer, Bud logo, Budweiser, Carl Icahn, CEO of Yahoo!, Champion's League, Cobra, Czech Bud, Dannon yogurt, Danone in France, Dutch-British consortium, Flanders' Field, flex global financial muscles, Fortis Group, Giant Supermarket, Grolsch, Guinness, Heineken, Holland's biggest bank, In-Bev St Louis, Jerry Yang, Labatts, Microsoft, Mutual of Omaha, Oklahoma vs. Texas style), owned by ING Group, Royal Ahold, Shell, St. Louis, Stella Artois, The Netherlands, upset, walked away from $46.5 billion dollars, Washington
Now What?
Posted on 20 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill Gates, Carl Icahn, google, Jerry Yang, Microsoft, MSN, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo!
(Reprise article)
The fish at the end of the Pixar film “Finding Nemo” bob on the surface of Sydney Harbour in plastic bags unable to break through to the big ocean below them. The executive teams at Microsoft and Yahoo! seem in a similar situation and face much bigger hurdles whether or not they eventually merge.
Carl [...]
Umm, Jerry… a 72% Premium was Enough for Carl
Posted on 17 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Board, Carl Icahn, Jerry Yang, Yahoo!
You have vexed him. Don’t do that.
The letter Carl Icahn sent last week to Yahoo! Board of Directors announcing his plans to launch a proxy fight, should give CEO Jerry Yang reason to stock-up on poison pills. Jerry, you will earn a very good return and I’d get used to the idea that you will soon be sipping pina coladas [...]
Yang’s Bluff Called, Microsoft Blinks
Posted on 05 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $47.5 billion dollars, Allstate, American Express, Carly Fiorina, Caterpillar, disney, Dow Chemical, Fortune 500, hp, IBM, Insurance Leader of the Year, Jerry Yang, Jim Schiro, Kraft Foods, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Motorola, Pepsi, Price Waterhouse, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PWC, Silicon Valley, Steve Ballmer, Time Warner, Yahoo!
14-years ago Yahoo! started in a Silicon Valley trailer. Saturday night Microsoft proved that yes, theirs was indeed bigger and walked away after saying $47.5 billion dollars(!) was enough money and $52 billion was too much to pay.
Today, analysts are saying Mr. Yang has a few months to convince investors that this was the right [...]
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