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CONAGRA FOODS INC., $40.85, New York symbol CAG, rose 5% this week after announcing it will spin off its commercial-food operations as a separate publicly traded company. This new business, called Lamb Weston, sells frozen potatoes and other vegetable products to restaurants and other food makers. It had $2.9 billion of revenue in ConAgra’s 2015 fiscal year, which ended May 31, 2015. The remaining operations will operate as Conagra Brands and will focus on the company’s branded consumer foods, including Chef Boyardee canned pastas, Hunt’s tomato sauce and Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn. It will also hold ConAgra’s 44% stake in the Ardent Mills flour-milling joint venture. In fiscal 2015, these businesses had $7.2 billion of revenue....
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD., $198.88, Toronto symbol CP, has offered to buy U.S.-based railway Norfolk Southern Corp. (New York symbol NSC). The combined firm would be North America’s largest railway, with more than 56,000 kilometres of track. Buying Norfolk would also give CP greater access to ports on the U.S. Gulf Coast and Atlantic Ocean. Norfolk shareholders would receive $46.72 U.S. a share in cash and 0.348 of a CP share (or roughly 50% in cash and 50% in stock). That would give them 41% of the combined company....
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