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For this morning’s main post, on tool-making giant Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), please see the next item. As regular readers know, two of the companies we named to our Top 10 list of M&A targets for 2011 have already announced deals. Now it looks like a third may follow suit: Lawson Software (LWSN), which [...]
We’ve got a post this morning on stock compensation at Krispy Kreme for you (below), but first this: Another of the companies on our list of top targets for M&A activity in 2011 is being acquired. Pride International (PDE) said this morning that it plans to be acquired by Ensco PLC (ESV) in a cash-and-stock [...]
On Friday, we offered readers a look at our top targets for M&A activity in 2011, available previously just for FootnotedPro subscribers only. We don’t generally like to get all breathless here at footnoted, but you might want to snag a copy sooner rather than later: One of our top 10 just got snapped up. Smurfit-Stone [...]
As footnoted regulars know, we often engage in a parlor game called “guess the next M&A” target. One of our recent successes was our prediction — all the way back in March 2009 — that Jo-Ann Stores (JAS) would be taken over. At the time, the company was trading at just over $14. When the [...]
Just in case you missed the news on Thursday morning due to pre-holiday merry-making, Jo-Ann Stores (JAS) announced that they were going private. Leonard Green & Partners agreed to acquire the chain of craft stores for $61 a share, which sent the stock up over 32% in one day. But the news shouldn’t come as [...]
