Mergers & Acquisitions

Kraft Foods Inc.'s Board of Directors has nominated Mark D. Ketchum for election at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on April 24, 2007.

Procter & Gamble and Dunkin' Brands sign an agreement to launch Dunkin' Donuts coffee at retail. P&G Coffee will be responsible for distributing Dunkin' Donuts packaged coffee to grocery stores, mass merchandisers, club stores and other consumer retail channels across the United States.

Weighing in on internal transition and external collaboration

Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods Inc., announced in late February a comprehensive strategy to accelerate the company's growth.

With recent acquisitions, Bumble Bee Foods LLC's business has grown significantly in North America, providing the organization an opportunity to simplify business processes and to better align sales and marketing.

The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company will realign its global commercial operations structure so that all of the company's key geographies will now report directly to William D. Perez, Wrigley's president and chief executive officer.

In a move to strengthen its overall capabilities, Optiant, a provider of inventory planning and optimization solutions, agrees to acquire SLIM Technologies, a provider of supply chain network design technology solutions.

In an effort to address C-level executive requirements for comprehensive analytic applications for performance management, SAP AG acquires Pilot Software, a privately-held company specializing in strategy management software.