Article: Antitrust Regulators to Scrutinize Dean Foods-Suiza Foods Merger.

By Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 6--The pending marriage of Dean Foods Co. and Suiza Foods Corp., the two largest dairy companies, is sure to prompt close scrutiny from antitrust regulators who are sensitive to pricing of the grocery staple, analysts said.

Dean Foods, a Chicago area institution named after founder Samuel E. Dean, said Thursday that it agreed to a $1.5 billion buyout bid from Dallas-based rival Suiza, which also will assume $1 billion of Dean's debt. The cash-and-stock offer, which equals $41.14 cents a share, comes a month after Dean Foods disclosed it had hired an investment bank to explore ...

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