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Article: Burlington may trump French in bid battle for United Biscuits

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The Independent (London, England)
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December 20, 1999
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BURLINGTON Biscuits, the US contender in the increasingly heated tussle for control of United Biscuits, is this week expected to raise its bid for the ailing Hula Hoops and Jaffa Cakes maker for the second time, in order to trump a pounds 1.26bn agreed offer from a rival French consortium.

Burlington - the consortium grouping Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, the Texan buy-out firm, and Nabisco, the New Jersey-based food group - has yet to concede defeat even though UB's independent directors have backed the rival Paribas-led bid

Finalrealm - the group fronted by Paribas, Cinven and Deutsche Bank, which plans to cream off a portion of UB's assets and sell them to Danone, France's biggest food ...

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