Deals
Kellogg to Buy Procter & Gamble’s Pringles for $2.7 Billion
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Kellogg Co. agreed to acquire Procter & Gamble Co.’s Pringles potato chip business for about $2.7 billion in cash to triple its global snacks sales after a deal with Diamond Foods Inc. fell through.
The transaction will reduce Kellogg’s earnings this year by as much as 16 cents a share, the Battle Creek, Michigan-based company said today in a statement. Procter & Gamble earlier today terminated a previous plan to sell Pringles to Diamond Foods, according to a separate statement.