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Update: Kellogg Offers to Acquire Keebler

Update: Kellogg Offers to Acquire Keebler

The acquisition would create a food company with $10 billion in annual revenue.
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The acquisition would create a food company with $10 billion in annual revenue.

Kellogg (K) - Get Free Report confirmed that it reached an agreement to acquire Keebler Foods( KBL) for $42 a share.

The purchase price would value the acquisition at $3.57 billion.

Kellogg said it reached an agreement with both Keebler and

Flowers Industries

(FLO) - Get Free Report

, the majority shareholder of Keebler.

Kellogg, which expects to close the acquisition during the first quarter of 2001, will also assume Keebler's debt. Kellogg said the acquisition would create a food company with $10 billion in annual sales.