Topic: Private Equity

Sale means new ruler for Burger King

Burger King Holdings Inc. sealed a deal to sell itself for $3.26 billion to 3G Capital, an investment firm with strong ties to Latin America. The...

Wagamama goes up for auction

The £250m auction of the Wagamama noodle chain will kick off next week when potential bidders receive information on the sale of the business.. ....

Backing for new lender

The two financiers and the Future Fund are backing Haymarket Financial (HayFin), a specialist lender to medium-sized businesses. The commitments...
Rhode Island has a number of services for small businesses and small-business start-ups. What is available and from whom, changes on a regular...

A whopper of a deal for Burger King

Burger King Holdings agrees to be bought at a 46 percent premium to it's pre-rumor price by investment firm 3G Capital. Bobbi Rebell ...
Trash company Waste Management has an acquisition and investment strategy that's about as aggressive as a high-tech firm, like Cisco. It's unusual...
Updated: As a number of readers have pointed out, I read this chart incorrectly. I read absolute numbers of visitors into it, whereas the chart is...
Enlarge This Image . THE scientific rebel J. Craig Venter created headlines - and drew comparisons to Dr. Frankenstein - when he announced in May...
SM: What is the hardest decision you have had to make as you were building this company?. . TM: In 2004 I had to recognize that we still did not...

A Cluetrain talk turns 10

Ten years ago this month, I gave the opening keynote for the International Retail Conference of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Instutut, in Lucerne...