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Update: Kellogg Offers to Acquire Keebler
The acquisition would create a food company with $10 billion in annual revenue.
Kellogg (K) - Get Kellogg Company (K) 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
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, 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.
